We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 27 Sep 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

Seeking a dynamic Program Manager to drive cross-functional programs as part of the Neuromodulation (NM) and Pelvic Health (PH) operations product lifecycle management team. This team manages complex projects and programs in the released product space, including regulatory (i.e., MDR) compliance remediation, manufacturing capacity expansion, product design enhancement, and supply continuity programs.

Products in these therapy areas include implantable and external neurostimulators, implantable infusion pumps, leads, catheters, associated software programming applications, and associated device recharge and programming instruments.

The ideal candidate has demonstrated prior success in leading diverse and multi-site projects, which include matrixed team members from R&D, test, biocompatibility, sterilization, regulatory affairs, operations, supply chain, and quality, among others. This role requires a combination of technical expertise, program management skills, business acumen, and domain knowledge in medical device operations and development.

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 are working onsite 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

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

• Leads or leverages cross-functional teams to evaluate, develop, and manage projects for new product development and ongoing lifecycle management of products, processes, and therapies.
• Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
• Manages the development and implementation process of a company’s products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products and processes.
• Reviews the status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
• Monitors the project from initiation through delivery.
• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem-solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.
• Gathers requirements, works on requirements planning, requirements elicitation, and requirements management to ensure they meet the demands of the project’s key stakeholders.
• Communicates with stakeholders, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.

Required Knowledge and Experience: 

• Requires a Baccalaureate degree
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.

Nice to Have:

• Experience in the Medical device or highly regulated industry
• Experience in change control and ongoing lifecycle management of products
• Strong knowledge and experience in product phase-in and phase-out planning and end item/GTIN implementation
• Experience managing global projects and global teams
• Extensive experience leading a complex project/program, including cross-functional team leadership, financial accountability, and the ability to manage change implementation for a large number of product configurations.
• Experience leading changes or new product introductions with contract manufacturers

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independe