IT Program & Project Manager

About the Role

The IT Program & Project Manager is responsible for leading the successful delivery of complex technology initiatives across the organization. This role operates at both the program and project level, managing individual IT projects as well as programs consisting of multiple related projects that collectively deliver a broader business or technology outcome. The IT Program & Project Manager partners closely with business leaders, IT leaders, product teams, technology teams, vendors, and other stakeholders to establish clear objectives, develop integrated delivery plans, manage dependencies and resources, identify and mitigate risks, and ensure initiatives are delivered on time, within budget, and in alignment with organizational priorities.

Responsibilities

• Program Management:
  • Lead and manage IT programs comprised of multiple related projects, workstreams, or initiatives that collectively support a strategic business or technology objective.
  • Establish program objectives, scope, governance, milestones, success measures, and integrated delivery plans.
  • Coordinate and manage dependencies, sequencing, critical path activities, and cross-project impacts.
  • Establish program governance, including steering committees, status reporting, decision-making forums, and escalation processes.
  • Provide integrated visibility into program-level scope, schedule, financials, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions.
  • Identify and proactively manage risks and issues that span multiple projects or functional areas.
  • Coordinate project and workstream leaders to ensure alignment to overall program objectives.
  • Facilitate executive-level communication and provide concise reporting on program health, progress, risks, and required decisions.
  • Ensure program outcomes and benefits remain aligned with business objectives and organizational priorities.
  • Lead program-level change management and organizational readiness activities in partnership with business and IT stakeholders.
• Project Management:
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of individual IT projects from initiation through implementation and closeout.
  • Develop and maintain project charters, scope, schedules, milestones, budgets, resource plans, communication plans, and delivery plans.
  • Establish clear roles, responsibilities, deliverables, and accountability across project teams.
  • Facilitate project planning, execution, status meetings, decision-making, and issue resolution.
  • Manage project scope and changes through appropriate governance and change control processes.
  • Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues.
  • Manage project dependencies across IT teams, business functions, vendors, and other initiatives.
  • Track project financials, including budgets, forecasts, actuals, and variances.
  • Coordinate testing, implementation, deployment, transition to operations, and project closure activities.
  • Ensure appropriate project documentation and lessons learned are captured.
• Business & IT Partnership:
  • Serve as a trusted delivery partner to business sponsors and IT leaders.
  • Translate business objectives into clear technology delivery requirements, outcomes, and plans.
  • Facilitate collaboration between business stakeholders and technical teams.
  • Ensure business-owned activities, decisions, dependencies, and deliverables are incorporated into integrated delivery plans.
  • Effectively communicate complex technology issues and delivery impacts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Challenge assumptions, identify gaps, and drive timely decisions when delivery is at risk.
• Delivery Leadership & Governance:
  • Establish an appropriate delivery approach based on the complexity, size, risk, and characteristics of each initiative.
  • Apply agile, waterfall, or hybrid delivery practices as appropriate.
  • Establish and maintain effective project and program governance.
  • Monitor delivery performance and proactively escalate issues requiring leadership intervention.
  • Ensure initiatives follow established IT portfolio, project management, architecture, security, financial, and change management processes.
  • Promote consistent project and program management practices across the IT organization.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of IT delivery methodologies, tools, processes, and standards.
• Resource & Vendor Management:
  • Develop resource plans and coordinate allocation of IT and business resources across projects and programs.
  • Identify resource constraints and escalate capacity or capability concerns.
  • Coordinate internal teams, contractors, consultants, and third-party vendors.
  • Manage vendor deliverables, milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues in partnership with IT Vendor Management and procurement teams.
  • Ensure vendor commitments are aligned with overall project and program objectives.

Qualifications

• Required:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, Project Management, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of experience managing IT projects, with increasing responsibility and complexity.
• Preferred:
  • Demonstrated experience managing programs consisting of multiple related IT projects or workstreams.
  • Strong understanding of project and program management principles, methodologies, and governance.
  • Experience working in hybrid delivery environments, including agile and traditional project management approaches.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage complex cross-functional initiatives involving business and technology stakeholders.
  • Strong experience with project planning, risk and issue management, financial management, resource planning, and executive reporting.
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and drive accountability across organizational boundaries.
  • Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
  • PMP, PgMP, or comparable project/program management certification.
  • Agile/Scrum certification or experience working with agile delivery teams.
  • Experience with enterprise technology implementations, business process transformation, or large-scale organizational change.
  • Experience managing third-party technology vendors and implementation partners.
  • Experience with portfolio management, strategic planning, or enterprise IT governance.
  • Experience with tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, or comparable project/portfolio management platforms.

Core Competencies

• Program & Project Leadership: Ability to lead both individual projects and complex programs with multiple interconnected workstreams.
• Strategic Thinking: Understands the relationship between technology initiatives, business strategy, organizational priorities, and desired outcomes.
• Execution & Accountability: Creates clarity, establishes accountability, and drives teams toward successful delivery.
• Risk & Issue Management: Anticipates challenges, identifies emerging risks, and takes decisive action to keep initiatives on track.
• Stakeholder Management: Builds effective relationships with executives, business leaders, IT teams, vendors, and project stakeholders.
• Communication: Clearly communicates status, risks, issues, decisions, and recommendations to audiences ranging from project teams to executive leadership.
• Influence & Collaboration: Effectively leads through influence across teams and functions without relying on direct authority.
• Financial & Resource Management: Understands and manages budgets, forecasts, resource capacity, and delivery constraints.
• Adaptability: Selects and adapts delivery approaches based on the needs, complexity, risk, and maturity of each initiative.

Pay

Salary ranges for U.S. (excl. PR) locations (USD): $136,000.00 - $230,000.00. This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Short Term Incentive (STI).

Benefits

MiniMed offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance, access to a Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, life insurance, long-term disability leave, and a dependent daycare spending account. Additional benefits include incentive plans, a 401(k) plan with company match, short-term disability coverage, paid time off and holidays, participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and access to the Employee Assistance Program.

Please note that the application window for this opening will close on 23 Aug 2026.