We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 18 Apr 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

Medtronic’s Coronary and Renal Denervation (CRDN) business is looking for a motivated Senior Engineering Program Manager to be part of a high-performing team that is revolutionizing the design and development of energy based therapeutic medical devices to treat hypertension. In this role, you will leverage both your technical breadth and business acumen to accelerate the design and development of next generation medical devices. The work you do will impact patients globally and help support Medtronic’s mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life for millions.
This position requires strong technical and leadership skills to support the design and development of innovative, new products within the Cardiac and Vascular Group. The Sr. PD Program Manager will apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts in working on complex technical problems, and will provide technical leadership of projects from concept generation through early phase development to market release.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for the patients we serve and an unrelenting desire to improve our business. The candidate will be motivated and must have exceptional soft skills that will be used to work with a team.
We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

• Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes. Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager. Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower-level specialists, at times acting as a team leader. May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.
• Works directly with R&D disciplines such as Systems, Electrical, & Mechanical Engineering, Software, along with cross-functional team members from Manufacturing, Regulatory, and Quality, to take a product from ideation to market release.
• Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results. May negotiate with others to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making.
• Leads design, develop, test, debug, and verification including software.
• Establishes high standards of development quality within the team through good practices and habits.
• Provide technical input supporting submissions to regulatory bodies and governmental agencies.
• Collaborate with people inside and outside of the company, as well as identify suppliers and external partners needed throughout the development process.
• Lead and support our intellectual property portfolio through generation and support of novel ideas and product concepts.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree required (Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Equivalent Technical Discipline)
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant program management experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience

Nice to Have

• Experience with product concept development, customer interaction, systems engineering and validation of customer needs/design requirements
• Create strategic solutions to meet anticipated patient and business needs with predictability and certainty.  
• Ensure scope, cost, resource and schedule alignment between operations and core team functions  
• Follow compliance processes for New Product Development   
• Skilled negotiator with demonstrated ability to create mutually beneficial results and negotiate tradeoffs 
• Ensure structured problem methods and predictive engineering principles are consistently and rigorously applied, such as Design for Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, or similar concepts.  
• Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and the ability to ask critical questions without being the subject matter expert 
• Ability to lead and Influence between Extended R&D Team and Core Team 
• Coach and develop extended R&D members, to help individuals advance their skills and careers.  Provide performance feedback. 
• Recognize teams and individuals for exceptional performance
• Working knowledge of systems engineering principles, requirements management, and medical device regulation
• Demonstrated strength in building strong relationships at all levels of the organiz