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

You will be a core member of the Released Product Management organization within Robotic Surgical Technologies (RST), focused specifically on consumables (including instruments, accessories, and sterile interfaces) that support the HUGO™ robotic-assisted surgery platform.

This Program Manager plays a critical role in ensuring ongoing product safety, efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and market readiness throughout the product lifecycle.
As the design owners for all released products, the RPM team ensures that our consumables meet evolving global regulatory requirements, customer feedback, and business needs. This role collaborates closely across R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Field teams to deliver continuous improvements and resolve field issues, ensuring our consumables perform reliably every time.

You Will:

• Develop and monitor schedules, plans, tasks, and priorities, ensuring a streamlined workflow. 
• Drive problem-solving sessions, maintaining a sense of urgency and holding team members accountable to commitments. 
• Anticipate and mitigate risks, balancing time, schedule, cost, and quality, while adhering to safety and regulatory standards. 
• Manage project financials, including forecasting and tracking of accruals and actuals. 
• Cultivate a broad understanding of Medtronic's Surgical Robotics and Instrumentation, leveraging this knowledge to drive project success.

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

• Leads or leverages cross functional teams to evaluate, develop and manage projects for new product development and ongoing lifecycle management of products, processes and therapies.
• Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
• Manages the development and implementation process of a company’s products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products and processes.
• 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.
• Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.
• Gathers requirements, works on requirements planning, requirements elicitation and requirements management to ensure they meet demands of project’s key stakeholders.
• Communicates with stakeholders, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.

Must Have - Minimum Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 8 years of experience with 6 years of project management experience or Advanced Degree with a minimum of 3 years of experience of project management experience 
• ​Proven track record of successfully managing within a matrixed organization 
• ​Experience managing Program/Project Managers with a history of increasing engagement

Nice to Have- Preferred Job Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Project Management or commercial new product delivery 
• MBA and PMP / CSM Certification preferred 
• Knowledge in product development, project management, and commercialization in the medical device industry 
• Strong communication and teamwork skills; must possess excellent relationship building skills with direct reports, peers, and senior leaders 
• Must be able to lead cross-functional discussions; driving towards alignment, decisions, resolutions when necessary 
• Ability to manage multiple projects at once while understanding cultural differences between various regions of the world 
• Experience with developing and/or commercializing large capital medical devices (e.g. Robotic systems, Imaging equipment, etc.) 
• Experience with advanced scheduling and resource management tools like Prochain and Resource First 
• Experience working under regulations of the FDA, notified bodies, and other regulatory agencies for successful commercial launches 
• Product launch experience working with Global teams 

Physical Job Requirements

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