We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 13 Jun 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 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. Join our esteemed team as a Principal Project Manager within the Robotic Surgical Technologies (RST) business, building on our Hugo™ surgical robotics platform as we develop new features and expand into new markets.
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.

This position will sit at our Boston, MA site. Travel up to 10%, primarily in US.

As a Principal Engineering Project Management Specialist, you will lead a variety of New Product Development projects centered around our Hugo™ platform. 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 SW executive leadership team to communicate project status, schedule, risks, and other key program metrics.

Are you poised to be a trailblazer, leaving your imprint on the realm of modern medicine? The opportunity is here, and we invite you to explore it with us. 

You Will:

• 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. 

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant scientific discipline
• Minimum of 7 years of project management experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years experience
• Expert skills with Microsoft Project and critical chain analysis

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, interdependent projects. 
• Knowledge of medical device R&D, product development, and clinical/regulatory procedures; including identifying use conditions, developing requirements, and implementing risk management activities like failure mode analysis
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and able to influence all customers (both internal and external) on issues that impact the business and its technical service and product strategies
• Expert active listening skills with a keen awareness for various messaging styles; and polished ability to tailor delivery to a broad range of audiences