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

CSP is a Spine R&D and Marketing Group focusing on Customized Spinal Instruments to specific Spine Surgeon needs, uses, and preferences. CSP is active across all spinal therapies offered by Medtronic Spine.

 
As the Engineering Program Manager, Spine CSP, you will manage the development of life-saving medical device products for spine surgery in a fast-paced environment with a greater emphasis on customer relationships (Spine Surgeon and Sales Organization) 

Key responsibilities include leading multiple projects (existing re-order and new) of tailormade surgical instruments and therapies to the specific needs of spine surgeons in collaboration with a team of R&D and cross-functional engineers.  

You will actively seek out Voice of the Customer (VOC) input and translate that into product requirements, design specifications, and concept sketches through close collaboration with Spine Surgeons and our Sales Organization   

You will work under CSP general direction and its specific  development process.   
 

The product focus will be on spinal instrumentation treating degenerative, deformity, and tumor/trauma conditions.  

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We’re purposeful. We’re committed. And we’re driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of people worldwide.  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.

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• Be in constant and close communication with Spine Surgeons and our Sales Organization to receive, activate, inform and deliver CSP products. (reorders and new) 
• Serve as the Engineering Program Manager for Medtronic’s CSP Program by providing overall project leadership, vision, direction, and structure to our CSP R&D and Extended team.  Leads the team to deliver technical and business objectives and ensure customer expectations are met or exceeded; Leads with integrity, passion, and humility. 
• Leads multiple parallel projects (re-order and new) to execution until products are in the Surgeon's hands and is accountable to the R&D Leadership for project execution, ensuring team commitments (project contracts) are met. 
• Collaborates with Marketing and Sales Organization to define and communicate project scope and advancement; in collaboration with CSP management team, establish priorities. 
• Demonstrates high emotional intelligence; builds trust, rapport, and respect with customers (Spine Surgeons and Sales Org.), R&D project team members and cross-functional stakeholders; Engages in honest and transparent conversations 
• Creates a culture where teams can act with a high sense of urgency and accountability to meeting/exceeding individual and project goals  
• Encourages a team culture that challenges traditions, fosters non-judgements, rewards creativity, and eliminates non-value-added work 
• Understands complex problems, priorities, and risks and drives the team to effective resolution 
• Demonstrates effective collaborative processes for decision-making. This will help facilitate the CSP R&D team to make decisions based on appropriate consideration of the trade-offs 
• Plans and implements all aspects of design and development of new medical device products from initial design to market release in accordance with agreed project timelines in the frame of CSP development processes 
• Provides technical leadership in translating, understanding, and defining customer needs while applying and maintaining constructive feedback loop with customers (Spine Surgeons) to improve designs. 
• Understands verification and validation activities, ensuring products meet user needs, system requirements, and intended use 
• Writes project reports and creates presentations as required to document and communicate results 
• Contributes and builds domain knowledge around spinal systems, their clinical use, and application via customer and field visits, pre-clinical in vivo labs, literature searches, and training 
• Documents tradeoffs, rationales, and potential solutions as per the CSP development process 
• Supports documentation throughout all phases of CSP development process in collaboration with the cross-fun