We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 30 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

As the Engineering Program Manager at Spine NPI, you will manage the development of life-saving medical device products for spine surgery in a fast-paced environment.

Key responsibilities include leading multiple projects across all spinal therapies offered by Medtronic Spine to the specific needs of spine surgeons, leading a team of R&D Engineers to lead new product development, developing and designing implants, instruments, and systems, conducting product and use testing, and managing system interfaces.

Through close collaboration with Spine Surgeons, our Sales Organization, our Marketing and R&D Engineering Teams, and under general guidance from the Technical Therapy Leader, you will actively seek out the Voice of the Customer (VOC) input and translate that into product requirements, design specifications, and concept sketches.   

The product will focus 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.

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

• Serve as the Engineering Program Manager for several NPI projects by providing overall project leadership, vision, direction, and structure to our NPI 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 to execution until launch 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 the Therapy Technical Leader, establishes 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 meet/exceed individual and project goals
• Encourages a team culture that challenges traditions, fosters non-judgment, 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 R&D team in making 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, following agreed project timelines in the frame of NPI development processes.
• Provides technical leadership in translating, understanding, and defining customer needs while applying and maintaining a 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 NPI development process
• Supports documentation throughout all phases of the NPI development process in collaboration with the cross-functional team.
• Participates in activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery
• Contributes inventions, new designs, and techniques regarded as advances in the medical and technical/scientific community
• Provides traini