Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
A Day in the Life
Program Leadership & Execution
- Leads Premarket Quality Engineering teams to evaluate, develop and manage projects for new product development and ongoing lifecycle management of products, processes and therapies.
- Defines and executes operational aspects of product development programs including: schedule, project risk identification and mitigation plans, issue management, program management owned deliverable, budget and resource forecasting
- Monitors program progress and status through defined program objectives, KPIs, schedule progress, risk burndown, and effective issue mitigation and resolution strategies
- Develops mechanisms for tracking program performance, ensuring accountability, and enabling proactive intervention
Stakeholder Engagement
- Drive strategic and executional alignment across R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, and other partner functions within program team
- Creates clear and concise program updates, risks, and recommendations for use in communication with leadership
Program Governance & Strategy
- Demonstrates strategic thinking in establishing and managing program plans, requirements, and execution strategies that are aligned to the business priorities
- Ensure compliance with design controls requirements, quality systems, and regulatory requirements.
- Acts as subject matter expert to the team in the Product Development Process (PDP)
Talent Leadership
- Leads, develops, and mentors a high-performing global organization of quality engineers, managers, and technical leaders.
- Fosters a culture of inclusion, accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Builds organizational capability in systems engineering, software quality, advanced quality methodologies, and risk management.
- Develops future leaders through coaching, succession planning, and talent development initiatives.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Plans, directs and implements all aspects of the company's design and development of new medical device products or software systems.
- May develop, evaluate, implement and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems or reliability systems and standards pertaining to materials, techniques, or company products.