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

As the leading company in the biomedical sector, Medtronic fosters open innovation to improve the quality of products and services we offer to our customers. Within the open innovation paradigm, we collaborate with all the stakeholders of the ecosystem including regional/national/European authorities, hospitals, start-up´s, universities, research centers and other companies. INNOVA is the Medtronic team devoted to facilitating open innovation across the company. Our department is part of Integrated Health Solutions, the Medtronic entity dealing with everything that goes beyond the device, from process improvement to Digital Health.
As an Innovation Project Manager within Medtronic’s INNOVA team, you will lead and support European healthcare innovation projects, managing operations, finances, and proposal development. You'll collaborate across teams to align initiatives with strategic goals, identify market opportunities, and drive innovations toward real-world impact. This is a remote/hybrid role but based in Spain. The role with a willingness to travel to clients and Medtronic locations (15-20%) within the Europe.

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

• Coordination of European Healthcare Innovation Projects: Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of tasks, meetings, deliverables, and results within European projects

• Financial Management: Oversee the financial aspects of projects, ensuring compliance with economic requirements and alignment with Medtronic’s standards

• Reporting and Documentation: Prepare detailed reports for the European Commission, summarizing technical and financial results, dissemination activities, event outcomes, and project impact

• Internal Collaboration & Innovation Engagement: Work across Medtronic departments such as Finance, Legal, Communication, General Management, and Operating Units and its innovation ecosystem to address project needs and identify challenges that drive portfolio-enhancing solutions

• Scouting Strategy: Participate in discovering, evaluating, showcasing, and collaborating with promising companies in the European healthcare start-up ecosystem

• Business Opportunity Identification: Detect and evaluate innovation-based business opportunities that align with Medtronic’s strategic objectives

• Proposal Development: Identify new opportunities and lead the preparation of proposals aligned with the department’s and company’s strategic innovation priorities

• Stakeholder & Team Collaboration: Represent the team to internal and external stakeholders while working closely with diverse local and European teams to ensure effective communication and project success. Having a relevant professional network in the EU projects space

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Biomedicine, Biomedical or Telecommunications Engineering, Economics, or a related field; Master’s degree in business or project management is a plus

• Project Experience: Proven experience managing European healthcare innovation projects, preferably within hospital or healthcare settings (H2020, Horizon Europe, IHI, EIT Health, etc.)

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Skilled in working across departments and with diverse stakeholders in complex, fast-paced environments

• Organizational & Execution Skills: Strong self-management, organizational abilities, and a results-driven mindset focused on high-quality delivery

• Communication & Interpersonal Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills,

• Innovation & Agile Thinking: Demonstrated innovative mindset, familiarity with agile methodologies, and use of project management tools

• Language Proficiency: Fluent in English (C1 level or higher); additional European languages are an asset

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