We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 25 Nov 2024

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

Medtronic’s Coronary and Renal Denervation (CRDN) business is looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Program Manager to be part of a high-performing team that is revolutionizing the design and development of energy based therapeutic medical devices to treat hypertension. In this role, you will leverage both your technical breadth and business acumen to accelerate the design and development of next generation medical devices. The work you do will impact patients globally and help support Medtronic’s mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life for millions.
This engineering position requires strong technical and leadership skills to support the design and development of innovative, new products within the Cardiac and Vascular Group. The Sr. PD Program Manager will apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts in working on complex technical problems, and will provide technical leadership of projects from concept generation through early phase development to market release.
This role requires exceptional soft skills, ability to navigate complex organizational norms and build strong cross functional relationships even when there is debate on how work should be accomplished; work with a dynamic multi-cultural team
Be a Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes. Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager. Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower-level specialists, at times acting as a team leader. May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.

• Work closely with cross-functional partners such as Systems Engineering, Electrical & Mechanical Engineering, Software, Manufacturing, Regulatory and Quality, to take a product from ideation to market release.
• Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results. May negotiate with others to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making.
• Leads design, develop, test, debug, and verification including software.
• Establishes high standards of development quality within the team through good practices and habits.
• Provide technical input supporting submissions to regulatory bodies and governmental agencies.
• Collaborate with people inside and outside of the company, as well as identify suppliers and external partners needed throughout the development process.
• Lead and support our intellectual property portfolio through generation and support of novel ideas and product concepts.

• Lead the Extended R&D Team to ensure on-time and on-budget performance through the new product development cycle.  
• Create strategic solutions to meet anticipated patient and business needs with predictability and certainty.  
• Ensure scope, cost, resource and schedule alignment between operations and core team functions  
• Follow compliance processes for New Product Development   
• Skilled negotiator with demonstrated ability to create mutually beneficial results and negotiate tradeoffs 
• Ensure structured problem methods and predictive engineering principles are consistently and rigorously applied, such as Design for Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, or similar concepts.  

• Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and the ability to ask critical questions without being the subject matter expert Experience with product concept development, customer interaction, systems engineering and validation of customer needs/design requirements
• Working knowledge of systems engineering principles, requirements management, and medical device regulation
• Demonstrated strength in building strong relationships at all levels of the organization, cross-functionally, and with key people external to the organization
• Experience developing software within the medical device industry
• Experience with medical device design controls (e.g. ISO 13485), risk analysis (e.g. ISO 14971), and IEC62304 and SDLC
• Broad knowledge of project management, including Agile Scrum methodologies.

Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.

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 independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation
 

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$160,000.00 - $240,000.00This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).
 

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.