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 a key team member, the Sr. Ops Process Development Project Manager-Product DNA brings a leadership opportunity to make an impact supporting the Medtronic Product DNA Program; a major transformational program that will create a connected thread of non-transactional product data to support the entire product lifecycle. This person will drive change and interface with our overall eco-system (PLM, MES and ERP). This program is planned as a multi-year program that will have multiple projects and waves of deployment.

Reporting to the Director - Product DNA Operations Deployment Lead in GOSC PMO, you will make a major impact across the entire enterprise is bringing the Medtronic Mission to our patients. We look for leaders who have a clear vision of where we are going and how to get there, bold inclusive thinkers who create new ideas and bring our best solutions forward to benefit our patients, business partners, and customers. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive. Product DNA is an ecosystem that creates a connected thread of product information, harnessing the collective ingenuity of employees across functions, enabling better collaboration with customers and partners, to rapidly deliver quality products and services, ultimately improving more patients’ lives.

This role will be based in Mounds View

As the Sr. Project Manager you will lead the Ops Process Development Workstream for the Medtronic Product DNA program.

• Serve as functional and process owner for workstream driving the day-to-day activities

• Lead requirement gathering and business process design. Establish the data flow and a design that maximises individual and organizational efficiency.

• Lead the Ops Process Development Strategy Meeting and develop close working relationships with the Operations area (Ops in PDP and OpEx) leadership team. Integrate the Product-DNA plans with those being developed by the Operations teams.

• Monitor scope inter-dependencies with other workstreams or governed projects.

• Oversee workstream performance, risk management, and issue tracking and  resolution

• Develop and monitor KPIs, scope, spend, savings and return on investment targets

• Lead and/or participate on teams to work on structurual issues, perform analyses, evaluate options, and develop recommendations on key process and system questions

• Identify and engage necessary functional site and group-specific SME’s

• Work with SMEs / OCM on stakeholder management, business process definition, change impacts and training.  Develop and utilize an “AS IS” assessment along with the future “TO BE” for the Ops Process Development areas.

• Define acceptance criteria, develop test scripts for Usability Pilots and User Acceptance Testing

• Monitor progress at defined points to ensure work is delivered on time, within budget and meets or exceeds expectations of the Operations and Business needs

• Collaborate with solution architects to determine development sequencing

• Participate in release planning, sprint/iteration planning and demos

• Participate in feature integration, testing, verifying delivered user stories against sprint/increment goals

• Champion Product DNA in a way that engages and excites the end user community

Must Haves

• Bachelor’s Degree and 7+ years of Manufacturing Engineering experience OR advanced degree and 5+ years of experience

Nice to Have

• Broad multi-functional business experience with project/people management

• Solid program manager(CTOR) experience with a drive for continuous improvement and a passion to be a change agent

• Strong leadership skills with proven record of managing successful projects/teams

• Experience implementing initiatives through effective influence management skills at multiple levels in the organization

• Must be comfortable with ambiguity, adept at change management, and capable of working in cross functional teams

• Excellent facilitation and issue resolution skills

• Experience leading efforts in operations process development, design transfer, EBOM/MBOM, DMR and DOTM creation and maintenance

• Familiarity with the manufacturing sites across the netw