We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 23 May 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

A key member of the team to lead New Venture programs. In this exciting role as a Program Manager, you will have responsibility for providing program leadership to cross-functional New Venture programs.

DIABETES
Transforming diabetes care together, for greater freedom and better health. Our strategy is to become a holistic diabetes management company focused on making a real difference in outcomes and cost. We want to transform healthcare toward value-based models by driving both product and business model innovation with the goal of elevating patient experience, improving clinical outcomes and lowering the total cost of care for our customers.
We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations. Visit www.medtronicdiabetes.com to see an overview of the products in our Diabetes product portfolio.

NEW VENTURES
New Ventures is focused on developing new diabetes systems, products and solutions in an inorganic, accelerator environment. Our team is unique in that we can adapt to a variety of business, patient and marketplace needs that span the entire spectrum of our product portfolio today and in the future. Our mission drives the need to be a highly skilled, flexible, extremely efficient, versatile and agile team in medical device product development for the benefit of our patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in need of intensive insulin therapy.

PROGRAM MANAGER
The Program Manager is responsible driving strategy and execution of programs that deliver products for patients in need of emerging solutions to help manage their diabetes. Using broad cross-functional knowledge and comprehensive management skills, the program manager will provide leadership and direction to and collaborate with a cross-functional program development team including co-collaborators, outside partners and internal members with expertise from a wide variety of engineering and product development disciplines. Some of these team member disciplines including engineering (mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, manufacturing), operations, marketing, clinical regulatory affairs, quality and other key business functions. In addition, the program manager will generate a program plan based on input from the team which details a comprehensive plan for the program including scope, risks, work product, resources, interdependencies and schedule. As the leader of the program, the program manager will engage senior leadership and be the owner of the program performance.

• Plan and lead New Product Introduction and Sustaining programs from conception through commercialization
• Program Planning: Program charters, program plans, Resource (expense and FTE), key risks and mitigation strategy, program schedule, interdependencies, build planning based on product demand/supply chain logistics
• Program Execution:
  • Leading the program team against plan
  • Coaching and mentoring team members
  • Effective risk management
  • Tracking program schedule
  • Creation, reconciliation and tracking of program budget
  • Effective conflict resolution
  • Communication with leaderships, management and team members including appropriate risk and escalation management
• Build a solid and high performing team with clear communication to leadership, extended team members, and enabling functions
• Engages team members to ensure effective team dynamics and mutual accountability. 
• Bring and implement program management best practices within team.  Influence positive change outside of Program Management team
• Provides regular updates and strategies for executive management review and decision making around program priorities, budget, timing, resources and assumptions, including impact on the customer, enterprise-wide resources, and revenues. 

REQUIREMENTS

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.

Required Education and years of experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Sciences with 5+ years program management experience or a Master’s degree with 3+ years program management experience

Desired qualifications

• Program management experience in the medical device domain
• Strong program management skills
• Project Management Certification, such as PMP 
• MBA or Masters in