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A Day in the Life

Medtronic has a unique opportunity for the right candidate to invigorate their career within one of the fastest growing businesses in medical devices. Innovating at the forefront of interventional treatment, you will have opportunities to guide multidisciplinary teams in the development of invasive medical devices, from project concept through to commercialization and beyond. 

This role within Medtronic's Structural Heart business unit is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with a committed team on expanding our transcatheter heart valve replacement systems. The Senior R&D Program Manager is directly involved in providing high level management and technical direction to an R&D team ensuring the implementation of strategic and tactical R&D activities. They will have the opportunity to motivate talented, diverse teams who are passionate about achieving success and dedicated to our mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life.

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A Day in The Life Of:

• Provides technical leadership and strategic guidance to their direct project team, as well as other senior leaders within the organization.
• Oversees one or more programs with clearly defined plans and delivery methods.
• Establishes program objectives, timelines, milestones, and budgets and management of technical risk to meet overall project targets and designs.
• Holds accountability for the overall program process, performance, and customer satisfaction.
• Evaluation and management of resource and skillset needs to meet program deliverables
• Motivates and develops team members, including vendors, ensuring clear understanding of expectations and performance standards to successfully complete major programs or projects.
• Fosters a culture of technical innovation in delivery of world-class medical devices
• Resolves issues through information exchange, influence, and persuasion, fostering cooperation both within R&D and cross functionally
• Develops collaborative working relationships with other functions through effective communication and interaction, ensuring R&D employees have the necessary information and resources to perform their jobs effectively.
• Collaborates remotely with multidisciplinary teams across various time zones and geographies.
• Executes and revises project work plans to adapt to changing needs and requirements.
• Effectively represents Medtronic Vascular to external customers.
• Flexibility to travel - approximately10% of time desirable.

Key Skills & Experience  

• Holds a degree at Level 8 in Engineering, Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience.
• Medical device development experience preferable
• Proven track record of managing medium to large, high performing teams
• Strong understanding of structured product development, including requirements-driven engineering, documentation, rigorous verification, and rick management methodologies including DFMEA and PFMEA.
• Technically proficient in catheter-based product development or relevant product development
• Skilled in project management principles, concepts, practices, and standards, including various methodologies such as sequential/waterfall, Scrum, and Agile.
• Experience actively managing major project work streams within large cross-functional teams, focusing on product development and execution through comprehensive project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and cost/benefit analysis.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with demonstrated ability to lead meetings and communicate effectively with both internal and external customers and vendors.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to facilitate leadership team and business updates
• Proven influencing skills across functions and programs.
• Ability to balance divergent objectives to achieve cooperation and alignment from other parties on program objectives and execution plans.

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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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