We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 7 Feb 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

The Future TAVR Core Team Leader (CTL) is a member of the Structural Heart TAVR & Congenital (T&C) R&D leadership team. This leader is responsible for all phases of new product development from early definition through development, manufacturing, and global commercialization.

There are 3 critical areas required to ensure success in this role:

1) Strategy: Ability to understand unmet clinical needs and translate into technical requirements that drive the team. Willingness to collaborate with business leadership to understand strategic priorities and roadmap for program success.
2) Program Leadership: Ability to lead complex multi-functional program and team, with strong interpersonal skills and understanding of the product development process. Track record of creating a vision and executable plan then driving the team to program completion.
3) Talent Development: Ability to build a high performing team, develop core team members, and extended teams with high organizational impact. Mentor and coaches the core team to achieve success.

The key job responsibilities of the Future TAVR CTL are as follows:

• Accountable for overall program execution.
• Responsible to drive cross-functional core team and work directly with functional leaders, regional leaders, and extended teams to ensure clear communication of program objectives, deliverables, and timing of key milestones.
• Proactively resolves cross-functional conflict.

• Manages daily execution of project/programs including critical path tasks, budgets, resources, and risk.
• Effective use of project schedules and work breakdown to manage project critical path activities.
• Understands applicable product standards and procedures and navigates the matrix to provide the required regulatory deliverables.
• Maintains effective communication with the business leadership team on overall program strategy and approach. 
• Delivers results with uncompromising quality, integrity, and ethics
• Regular communication with T&C R&D leadership team and Structural Heart leadership team through regular program updates and product review committee discussions. 
• Represent the program in frequent interactions with Key Opinion Leaders in the field, during scientific congresses and clinical investigator meetings.
• Drives financials for program including representation of program financial assumptions at Portfolio Strategy Board, Product Review Committee, Annual Operating Plan, and all financial forecasting. 
• Travel approximately 25%

Must Have: Minimum Requirements:  To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or scientific field
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in project management and 7+ years of managerial experience, or an advanced degree with minimum of 8 years of relevant experience and 7+ years of managerial experience.

Nice to Have (Desired & Preferred Qualifications):

• Experience with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) new product development as core team member or core team leader
• R&D, quality, or operations experience with transcatheter technologies
• Familiarity with key opinion leaders in the interventional cardiology community

About Medtronic:

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life.  We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be. We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

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, recruiter or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America).

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. Learn more about our benefits here.

 This position is eligible for a short-term incentive plan. Learn more about Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) here. 

This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan. Learn more about Medtronic Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) here.

EEO:  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. This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here:  http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify/employees.

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):$188,000-$283,200

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance,Health Savings Account,Healthcare Flexible Spending Account,Life insurance, Long-term disability leave,Dependent daycare spending account,Tuition assistance/reimbursement, andSimple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match,Short-term disability,Paid time off,Paid holidays,Employee Stock Purchase Plan,Employee Assistance Program,Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

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.