Sr. Project Management Specialist (ACM-R&D Org)

About the role

The Senior Project Manager within the Acute Care & Monitoring (ACM) OU is responsible for leading cross-functional teams to bring advanced Physiological Sensing products to market. This role focuses on enhancing innovation processes and refining design and delivery approaches to ensure product development excellence.

Responsibilities

• 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 status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
• Makes sure the project progresses according to schedule, quality standards, and client satisfaction goals.
• Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and intervenes and solves problems with project managers, line managers, and clients.
• Gathers requirements, works on requirements planning, requirements elicitation, and requirements management to ensure they meet demands of project's key stakeholders.
• Communicates with stakeholders, engages stakeholders to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.

Requirements

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Requires a Bachelor's degree and minimum of 4 years of experience leading complex projects OR Master’s degree with a minimum of 2 years experience OR PhD with 0 years experience.
• Nice to Have Knowledge and Experience:
  • Previous experience leading new product development projects that require navigating technical, regulatory, and quality risks while driving strategic decisions around project schedule, resources, budget, and scope.
  • Experience launching products in the medical device industry or other heavily regulated industries.
  • Strong influence management skills, capable of working collaboratively with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders at all levels to build consensus and alignment.
  • Experience working across global teams and in matrixed organizations.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead effectively in environments of uncertainty and change, with the capability to define clear paths forward, set strategic priorities, and drive results despite unclear or evolving circumstances.

Qualifications

• Autonomy: Seasoned individual contributor. Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions. Coaches and reviews the work of lower level specialists; may manage projects / processes.
• Organizational Impact: May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area. Contributes to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.
• Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas or specialties. Makes improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area.
• Communication and Influence: Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors. Exchange information of facts, statuses, ideas and issues to achieve objective, and influence decision-making.
• Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area. May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product.

Benefits

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package including 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, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).