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 preferred working location for this role is the Medtronic facility located in Mounds View, Minnesota; however, the individual may also work remotely within the US or onsite at another US-based Medtronic facility.
As a Senior IT Program Manager, you will lead program teams focused on building and managing Digital Health capabilities. You will engage across Medtronic’s Operating Units, Functions and Regions to deliver these net-new technical capabilities. You will drive alignment with business, technology, and architecture teams to build roadmaps that align technical delivery, business team onboarding and continuous improvement of the technical capabilities in your program. You will manage financials, resourcing and objectives for the program and coordinate investment between IT and business stakeholders.
In support of these emerging capabilities, you will develop governance and operating models in collaboration with technical delivery teams and vendors, and manage key relationships amongst sponsors, business leaders, IT leaders and vendors.
Join us for a career in IT that changes lives. The Digital Health team delivers exceptional digital health experiences leveraging our depth of experience across Medtronic. We work across all Operating Units to design and deliver solutions that are used by clinicians and patients, as well as R&T and R&D teams. We deliver capabilities such as patient engagement, clinical decision support, patient consent (Rights to Data management), care management, healthcare data management, AI/ML enablement, medical image technologies, and interoperability by working directly with partners in the business to understand their needs.
We’re a team that is passionate about making a difference and we value being action oriented, collaborative, accountable, team oriented, and focused on patient centered quality. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.
Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions – we’re a market leader and growing every day. You can be proud to be a part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation. You will be empowered to shape your own career. We support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Together, we can transform healthcare.
CAREERS THAT CHANGE LIVES
- Provide leadership for those involved in the development, design and optimization of one or more information technology and systems functions supporting company business processes and technical information systems platforms.
- Manage scope, schedule, and budget for strategic programs that transform the Medtronic business.
- Provide thought leadership in developing differentiating capabilities in the Digital Health space.
- Collaborate across Global IT, ensuring your program complies with all required policies and processes.
- Remove blockers for the team, escalating issues and risks when needed.
- Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, analysis, selection and development of enterprise applications and platforms.
- Provide direction for the effort required to protect the company's data, tools and information systems.
- Coordinate delivery of services to user groups and ensures IT service is uninterrupted.
- Accountable for overall program process, performance, and customer satisfaction for multiple strategic programs.
- Establish program objectives, timelines, milestones, and budgets.
- Develop new policies and procedures to mature program management within the team.
- Resolve problems and issues for the team that are typically difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.
- Communicate and lead meetings with internal and external customers and vendors, conduct briefings to higher level management team.
- Influence across functions and businesses while balancing divergent objectives to gain cooperation of other parties on program objectives and execution plans.
MUST HAVE (Minimum Qualifications)
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 7+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of experience with an advanced degree.
NICE TO HAVE (Preferred Qualifications)
- Strongly Preferred:
- Broad management knowledge and experience to lead project teams in one department.
- Experience working in a regulated environment, experienced with formal software validation and verification processes.
- Medical Technology and/or Life Science industry experience, desire to learn about Medtronic’s therapies and a desire to define software solutions that complement them.
- Experience establishing enterprise systems and integrations between large systems.
- Understanding of program and project management best practices.
- Experience working in a product model.
- Understanding of financial management, forecasting and management of CapEx and OpEx.
- Demonstrated experience providing guidance to project team members.
- Strong customer service awareness and orientation.
- A passion for transformation.
- Comfortable resolving competing priorities and meeting project deadlines.
- Ability to manage issues associated with project interdependence/design conflict, resource allocation and change management.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
- Experience working globally for a large multinational corporation.
- Previous Medtronic experience.
- Successful track record managing Agile software development projects.
- Previous experience leading delivery teams working with AWS Native Services and/or data engineering teams.
- Experience establishing data strategies and working with healthcare data.
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.
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): $150,400.00 - $225,600.00. This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).
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.
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.
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