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

Project Lead Intern – Digital Transformation / Enterprise Projects (Global IT Function)
Join our Global IT – Digital Transformation team at the Medtronic Engineering and Innovation Center. As a Project Lead Intern, you will support enterprise-level programs.
You will work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, engaging with global teams across engineering, operations, and business functions to ensure timely, quality delivery of strategic IT and service projects. This role offers exposure to project management, financial analysis, and portfolio governance within a world leader in healthcare technology.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

·       Assist in planning, scheduling, and coordinating activities across multiple enterprise projects.

·       Monitor and report on budget, resource allocation, and project financial performance.

·       Partner with Project Managers (PMs) to validate monthly financial updates, ensuring alignment with forecasts and actuals.

·       Identify and escalate reporting deviations or gaps before financial cycle closure.

·       Ensure accurate completion of timelines, milestones, phase gates, and project status updates.

·       Conduct monthly hygiene and health checks on portfolio records (risks, RAG status, deliverables).

·       Collaborate with PMs and Scrum Masters to drive on-time, on-budget delivery.

·       Prepare status reports, dashboards, and executive summaries for leadership communication.

·       Support demand intake, PO creation, WBS and time code setup for new initiatives.

·       Track lessons learned and recurring issues to recommend process improvements.

·       Participate in project meetings, retrospectives, and cross-functional reviews.

 

Education and Required Experience:

·       MBA or Master’s in Project Management, Operations, Business Analytics, or Information Systems.

·       Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Commerce, or a related field preferred.

·       Understanding of project life cycles (Predictive / Iterative / Agile).

·       Knowledge of Project Resource, Cost, and Time Management principles.

·       Basic skills in data analysis and reporting tools (Excel, Power BI).

·       Familiarity with Enterprise Project Portfolio Management tools (e.g., Jira, MS Project, Smartsheet, Confluence).

·       Strong communication and organizational skills with attention to detail.

 

 

 

 

Preffered Skills/Competencies:

 

·       Knowledge of Agile standards (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).

·       Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and data visualization tools.

·       Strong analytical, problem-solving, and reporting capabilities.

·       Experience in financial tracking, resource planning, or portfolio governance.

·       Ability to collaborate across diverse teams and global stakeholders.

·       Eagerness to learn emerging technologies in Cloud, Automation, and Analytics.

·       Continuous learning mindset and adaptability in a dynamic, multi-project environment.

 

 

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of  what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life.

We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team.

Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives.Help us shape the

future.

Whatever your specialty or ambitions, you can make a difference at Medtronic - both in the lives of others and your career. Join us in our commitment to take healthcare Further, Together.

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.
 

 

 

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