Sr PD Program Manager - EU MDR Leader
MedtronicAbout the role
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
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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
As part of the Post Market Development – Compliance PMO within the Surgical Operating Unit, this role leads the EU MDR program and associated Globalization initiatives. The Sr Program Manager is responsible for driving strategy, governance, and cross-functional execution to ensure regulatory compliance and sustained product availability across global markets.
This leader will drive the Globalization strategy that aligns regulatory registrations, market access planning, and product supply readiness across regions to ensure sustained product availability for patients and customers worldwide.
The role also provides leadership across the broader MDR program through direct management of four program managers responsible for key MDR transition workstreams. The Sr Program Manager ensures alignment across these workstreams, drives program governance, and enables coordinated execution across regulatory, operational, and commercial teams.
This position partners closely with Regulatory Affairs, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing, Quality, Clinical, and PMO teams within the Surgical Operating Unit and across the enterprise to ensure regulatory commitments are met while supporting continued product innovation.
This role plays a critical part in enabling the Surgical Operating Unit to successfully navigate evolving global regulatory requirements while maintaining product availability in key international markets. By driving the EU MDR program and Globalization strategy, this leader helps reduce regulatory and supply risk, strengthen compliance readiness, and support the organization’s ability to deliver safe and effective products to patients worldwide.
Additionally, this role helps shape how the Compliance PMO engages with the Surgical Operating Unit and enterprise partners, contributing to the development of durable governance models, scalable execution processes, and transparent reporting mechanisms that support informed decision-making at all levels.
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 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.
You will:
Program Strategy and Governance:
- Define and implement the EU MDR Globalization strategy aligned with regulatory requirements and business priorities.
- Establish governance structures, decision frameworks, and operating mechanisms to support effective program execution.
- Ensure alignment and coordination across MDR program workstreams.
Program Leadership
- Lead and develop a team responsible for key MDR transition workstreams, ensuring alignment, accountability, and coordinated execution across the program.
- Drive alignment across cross-functional teams and manage interdependencies across program workstreams.
- Provide coaching and leadership to strengthen program management practices across the team.
Program Planning and Execution
- Develop and maintain integrated program plans including milestones, dependencies, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Monitor program progress and proactively address risks, issues, and constraints.
- Provide clear recommendations on prioritization, trade-offs, and execution adjustments as conditions evolve.
Resource and Financial Management:
- Lead multi-year resource planning including staffing, tools, and operational capabilities.
- Manage program budgets and track financial performance against program plans.
Stakeholder Engagement and Communication
- Partner with cross-functional leaders to maintain alignment on program priorities and regulatory commitments.
- Provide clear, consistent program reporting including dashboards, risks, and leadership updates.
Performance and Continuous Improvement
- Define and mon
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