Careers that Change Lives In this vital role as a Senior Technology Development Portfolio Program Manager, you will join the Research and Technology Portfolio team, a motivated group where diversity is an enabler that drives ingenuity. As an innovation leader, you will shape the future of diabetes therapy by overseeing a category of new technology development. You will use your understanding of managing multiple early stage research projects to think creatively and find ways to help the exploration teams move their technology projects quickly to completion. You will build a network of scientists, engineers, and leaders to coordinate efforts, communicate progress, and make things happen!
A Day in the Life
Based on your technical expertise, you will lead one sector of the technology development portfolio. o Algorithm, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics technology development o Hardware: electrical, mechanical, wearable system technology development
Requires extensive cross-functional alignment, collaboration, and communication with multidisciplinary teams and leaders.
Present project progress updates across a wide spectrum of stakeholders, from individual contributor to executive management.
Requires ability to understand complex technology projects and how to breakdown into achievable milestones, to drive forward the characterization and de-risking of new technologies.
Assess risk vs rewards and properly represent technology challenges, opportunities, and readiness for incorporation into a product development process.
Manage timelines, milestones, budget, planning and resource allocations for assigned projects.
Must be able to build trust with technology team, broader functional groups, as well as leadership.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties 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.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties 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.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION, THE FOLLOWING BASIC QUALIFICATIONS MUST BE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME Education Required Bachelor's degree in business, Engineering or Scientific related discipline
Years of Experience
Bachelor's degree with 7+ years in a highly regulated industry; or Master's / Ph.D. with 5+ years in a highly regulated industry. Nice to Have
Combined degrees of Business and Engineering/Science preferred. Master's degree preferred.
Strong Program/Project Management skills, business acumen, with a demonstrated ability to complete projects on time, on budget and with the approved scope.
Experience leading early-stage, novel technology development programs in highly dynamic and ambiguous work environments, evaluation of when to "fail fast" and when to continue moving forward amidst challenges.
Grant management experience considered valuable.
Demonstrated flexibility with ability to evolve and adapt during rapid development cycles; can stay focused and set direction when faced with ambiguity. This includes the ability to anticipate functional direction and roadblocks, prioritize parallel closure paths, and effectively distill and communicate relevant data to the appropriate functional teams and leaders.
Demonstrated leadership skills, including the ability to develop and motivate high-performing and diverse teams.
Budget management experience.
Ability to work independently, self-motivated with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities
Detail oriented - but able to see the big picture.
Experience with building or changing team culture.
Excellent written and oral communication skills are critical.
Passionate about and inspired by MDT's mission and product We reward you in the ways that matter most to you. We offer a wide range of benefits and rewards programs to recognize the important role you play in our Mission to transform healthcare.
Our space, the medical device and healthcare industry, is rapidly changing. It always has been that way. With remote monitoring, wearables, robotics, AR/VR, telemedicine, and much more, agility and responsiveness are key to our success. Experience what it's like to work at a company with an exciting product pipeline full of patented inventions driving innovation in the healthcare space.
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.
Physical Job Requirements
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. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)
