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

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 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.

Join us for a career in Innovation and Research that changes lives.



Acute Care and Monitoring empowers clinicians and patients with actionable insights to personalize care – anytime, anywhere. We help reduce the risk of dangerous and costly patient complications in the hospital, but we won’t stop there. We will use real-time data and artificial intelligence to support our patients from within the hospital to home.



Our solutions will enable clinicians to predict and prevent complications reducing costs and improving outcomes.

Create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Join us to make a lasting impact. Help bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.  The Principal Project Manager leads or leverages cross functional teams internally or externally to evaluate, develop and manage projects for research and technology.

Specifically, responsibilities for the Principal Project Manager may include the following and other duties that may be assigned.

• 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.

• Monitors the project from initiation through delivery.

• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.

• Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving 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, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPREIENCE

Minimum Requirements: 

• Requires mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
• May have broad knowledge of project management.
• Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A)
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Specialized Skills or Experiences:

• Experience in taking medical devices to market (from opportunity definition to commercialization) while building key partnerships and working with clinicians, vendors, key external partners.

• 3 – 5 years of experience working in a matrix management structure 

• Flexibility in working hours to accommodate collaboration across multiple geographies

• Demonstrated aptitude to understand, condense and distill key issues of complex clinical problems while at the front-line (within ORs, clinics, or the field) and through customer discovery processes.

• At least 3 years of experience in determining impactful clinical needs that meet the strategic and organizational goals of the unit.

• Ability to pitch or promote different med-tech projects for securing funding internally or externally

• Experience in setting up, running, and/or managing animal studies, clinical research studies, and clinical trials across multiple locations (within the US and internationally)

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.
 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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 95,000+ 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