Principal Pd Project Management Specialist

• Manages New Product Development project initiatives of various size and complexity through our internal product development and governance processes.
• Leads cross-functional team members in the development and execution of the integrated project plan. Closely monitors the schedule to ensure key milestones and goals are achieved.
• Coordinates core-team meetings, ensuring team collaboration and alignment. Plays an instrumental role in handling team conflict, driving issues to resolution. Also ensures that all team member voices are heard, encouraging a diversity of opinions and thoughts.
• Manages project risks, including development of risk mitigation plans and tracking risk reduction.
• Develops and monitors project resource plans and budgets, including coordination of the Capital Request through the approval process. Ensures latest estimates and spend variance summaries are generated monthly.
• Prepares and presents project status updates at monthly portfolio review meetings and at specified PDT stage gates. Coordinates inputs from the cross-functional team and assembles the final presentation.
• Manages stakeholder relationships, ensuring key project information is communicated in a timely manner including project issues and risks.
• Ensures all project deliverables are completed at the appropriate product development stage. Supports internal and external compliance audits related to their assigned projects.
• 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.
• Additional tasks as assigned.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree with 7+ years of engineering or Project Management experience

OR

• An advanced degree with 5+ years of engineering or Project Management experience

Nice to Have

• Previous Medtronic experience
• Possess managerial courage; must be confident managing risks and making decisions that will likely have a large impact on strategic organizational objectives. Works independently; self-directed and highly self-aware. 
• Able to establish trust and credibility throughout senior leadership; demonstrates integrity and accountability.
• Experience leading teams comprised of individuals with diverse backgrounds; including but not limited to R&D, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Regulatory, Quality Assurance, Clinical, Sourcing and Marketing.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal, written and non-verbal; expert active listening skills with a keen awareness for various messaging styles; and polished ability to tailor delivery to a broad range of audiences.
• Exceptional influencing and interpersonal skills, negotiating; managing change; goal setting; planning and organizing teamwork; ability to address difficult situations; conflict resolution; resource constraint and problem solving. Strong written communication skills.
• Technically savvy; must be able to discuss, understand and make decisions regarding a wide array of engineering disciplines and complex technical/logistical issues.
• Skilled in using the tools and techniques of Project Management.
• Experience managing new product development initiatives, in highly regulated industries.
• PMP Certification, Lean Leader/Six Sigma Certification

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)

Compensation

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. Learn more about our benefits here.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive plan. Learn more about Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) on page 6 here.

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• Posting Date: Mar 20, 2024
• Travel: No
• Salary Min: 129,200
• Salary Max: 193,800