We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 12 Jul 2025

 

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to do our work. We're working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
This is an onsite role located at our North Haven, CT site.

At the intersection of healthcare innovation and project management expertise, we invite you to lead the charge in ensuring customer satisfaction design integrity, and impeccable quality across each milestone. The Principal Product Development Project Management Specialist will support the Core Surgical Innovations (CSI) business in an on-site position based out of North Haven, CT.

We seek out and hire a diverse workforce at every level: We need fresh ideas and inclusive insights to continue to be an innovative industry leader — that’s why we make it a point to seek out, attract and develop employees who are patient-centric, passionate, and who represent the same wide variety of life experiences as our patients.


As a Principal Product Development Project Management Specialist, you will lead a variety of New Product Development projects centered around next generation Core Surgical Innovations technologies. This pivotal role will lead cross functional teams through our Product Development Process, from concept development through launch, delivering novel solutions to our patients and customers. The role has high visibility, with regular presentations to the executive leadership team to communicate project status, schedule, risks, and other key program metrics.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Lead multifaceted cross-functional teams, encompassing Design, Development, Verification, Validation, Documentation. Guide them through the product development journey, ensuring project success and aligning with business objectives. 
• Develop and uphold project plans, schedules, risk registers, budgets, and resource allocation for designated projects. Champion timely and effective communication, continuously updating stakeholders on the project's advancement. 
• Manage project meetings, meticulously document meeting minutes and pivotal decisions, and diligently track action items. 
• Foster harmony between the project team, the business, and other stakeholders. Integrate input early in process development and quality planning. 
• Establish robust channels for both formal and informal communication, relaying accurate and current information to all stakeholders. 
• Organize and guide a diverse array of distributed, cross-functional resources toward triumphant outcomes. 
• Serve as the primary liaison for prominent leaders and stakeholders spanning the organization. 
• Engage stakeholders, ensuring their involvement in shaping end products and processes that effectively address business challenges. 
• Contribute to project prioritization decisions by offering data-driven insights and analysis derived from ongoing and previous projects. 
• Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
• Monitors the project from initiation through delivery.
• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years managing technical related projects OR: an advanced degree and 5 years of experience managing technical related projects

Nice to Have:
•    Master’s degree in Engineering and/or scientific discipline, or MBA 
•    PMP Certification or other PMI certification
•    Experience with ProChain scheduling methodology
•    Expert skills with managing project plan, scope, schedule, budget, and risk register
•    Agile Software Development certification, including SAFe
•    Lean/Six Sigma Certification
•    Expert skills in JIRA, JAMA, Polarion, PowerBI tools
•    Experience leading diverse and complex projects and programs and coordinating multiple teams to execute concurrent