Senior PD Project Management Specialist – SR

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

You will join a team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers responsible for further development and enhancement of the globally launched Medtronic’s Robotic Assisted Surgery platform beyond commercial launch and production scale-up: https://www.medtronic.com/surgical/robotics

Impact patient outcomes.  Come for a job, stay for a career:
The Surgical Robotics Group strives to enable earlier diagnosis, better treatment, faster complication-free recovery, and enhanced patient outcomes through less invasive surgical solutions.
 
SURGICAL INNOVATIONS set the standard for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) by creating innovative surgical products and services that focus on obesity and diseases and conditions of the gastrointestinal tract, lung, abdominal wall, pelvic region, and the head and neck.

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

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for coordinating and supporting a range of new product development projects designed to integrate with Medtronic’s recently launched surgical robotics platform.  A key area of responsibility will be to work with our Systems Engineering group to help manage labelling and configuration management projects and improvements to speed our introduction of new features and entry into new markets.  You will work closely with Project Management, R&D, Quality, Operations, Regulatory, and other functions to deliver projects to our customers.  

Skilled Project Managers are essential to the delivery of large-scale complex projects like our robotics devices. Combine the best of your experience with training and mentorship to move your career forward. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide. 

If you are a pioneer and would like to have a big impact into the new world of medical robotics – then come join our team! 

You Will: 

• Lead project teams. 
• Develop and execute project plans, including schedules, budgets, and resources. 
• Facilitate Agile teams through daily Scrums, backlog refinement, and risk identification. 
• Use data to assess and improve team performance and Scrum Maturity. 
• Address impediments to team agility and escalate issues when necessary. 
• Coach teams on Agile practices and ensure compliance with the Software Development Lifecycle. 
• Ensure adherence to design control requirements. 
• Define and negotiate project resource requirements. 
• Communicate project status and activities. 
• Manage project budgets and oversee capital expenditures. 
• Develop risk mitigation plans. 
• Challenge teams to meet project goals. 
• Provide routine status updates to stakeholders. 
• Ensure communication across teams and business units. 
• Function as the primary point-of-contact for key leaders and stakeholders across the organization   
• Communicates with stakeholders, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.  
• Contribute to project prioritization decisions by providing data and analysis from current and past projects   
• Travel up to 25% 

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline 
• 9+ years of overall IT experience with 4+ years of project management relevant experience  
• Experience with Microsoft Project Management Tools 
• NPI/Sustenance release governance process experience   
• Master’s degree in Engineering and/or scientific discipline, or MBA 
• PMP Certification 
• Scrum Master Experience 
• SAFe/ RTE or handling ART Experience 
• Experience with Microsoft Project and ProChain scheduling methodologies 
• Lean/Six Sigma certification 
• Experience leading diverse and complex projects and programs and coordinating multiple teams to execute concurrent, interdependent projects  
• Well-versed in R&D, product development, and clinical/regulatory process (e.g. IEC 60601, IEC 62304, ISO 14971, ISO 13485)  
• Strong written and oral communication skills and able to influence all customers (both internal and external) on issues that impact the business and its technical service and product strategies. Active listening skills with a keen awareness for various messaging styles; and polished ability to tailor delivery to a broad range of audiences  
• Exceptional influencing and interpersonal skills, negotiating; managing change; goal setting; planning and organizing teamwork; ability to address difficult situations; conflict resolution; resource constraint and problem solving.  
• Independent thinker with the ability to take both a commercial and operational view of complex situations 

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. 

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.
 

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