A Day in the Life

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

　　Plans, directs and implements all aspects of the company's design and development of new medical device products or software systems.

　　May develop, evaluate, implement and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems or reliability systems and standards pertaining to materials, techniques, or company products.

　　Oversees the investigation and evaluation of existing technologies.

　　Guides the conceptualization of new methodologies, materials, machines, processes or products.

　　Directs the development of new concepts from initial design to market release.

　　Manages feasibility studies of the design to determine if capable of functioning as intended.

　　Monitors documentation maintenance throughout all phases of research and development.

　　Organizes the coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery.

　　Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

　　You Will:

　　· Lead cross functional teams including Design teams, Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain Planning, Sourcing, Labeling, Contract Manufacturers, and Quality through the product development process to ensure successful completion of projects and business goals.

　　· Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and resource tracking for assigned projects. Ensure timely and effective communication to update stakeholders (including multiple teams, sites and disciplines) on the progress of the project.

　　· Schedule project meetings, document meeting minutes and key decisions, and track action items

　　· Ensure alignment between design sub system teams, operations, and core team. Ensure input is incorporated early in process development and quality planning. 

　　· Lead in the preparation and alignment of the official design transfer to operations when metrics support operational readiness!

　　· Build strong informal and formal communication channels to deliver information that is accurate and up to date to all stakeholders 

　　· Organize and guide large numbers of distributed, cross-functional resources successfully. 

　　· 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%

　　DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

　　Experience in managing people/direct reports: Accountability for mentoring, developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives, providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives to include defining performance goals and targets, conducting performance reviews, and staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals.

　　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.

　　SAFe/ RTE or handling ART Experience

　　Lean/Six Sigma certification

　　Autonomy: Manages one or more small-scale, developed or mature programs with well-defined program plans and delivery methodologies.

　　Is accountable for overall program process, performance, and customer satisfaction.

　　Organizational Impact: Provides input to establishing program objectives, timelines, milestones, and budgets.

　　Recommends new policies and procedures that affect program management.

　　May have budget accountability for one or more programs or at portfolio level.

　　Modifies programs management processes to improve program.

　　Communication and Influence: Communicates and leads meetings with internal and external customers and vendors, conducts briefings to higher level management team.

　　Solves issues through information exchange, influence, and active persuasion without direct exercise of command to gain cooperation of other parties on program execution plans.

　　Leadership and Talent Management: Leads, directs, and reviews the work of a team of professionals and/or vendors who exercise latitude and independence in their assignments.

　　Must Haves

　　· Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline with Software Experience

　　· 14+ years of overall IT experience with 6 years of project management relevant experience

　　Nice to Have

　　· Master’s degree in engineering and/or scientific discipline, or MBA

　　· PMP Certification

　　· Scrum Master Experience

　　· Experience with Microsoft Project and ProChain scheduling methodologies

　　· 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.

　　· Independent thinker with the ability to take both a commercial and operational view of complex situations.

　　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.