Medtronic - Plymouth, MN
posted 3 months ago
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, passionate world. Within our Research & Development organization in Peripheral Vascular Health, we focus on deploying project management methodologies and practices to ensure robust planning, monitoring/controlling, and execution of new product development activities, continuous improvement initiatives, and released product management. Our Project Management Specialists are directly involved in all stages of the project life cycle for our innovative devices and therapies. This individual will work on projects that are in various phases of product development, primarily within the Release Product Management area. They will be working with internal project team members as well as suppliers and business partners to develop and sustain our product portfolio. As project lead, this individual will be responsible for defining the scope, budget, and timeline of the project, along with managing project execution within a cross-functional team. The role requires representing the Research & Development Portfolio Operations group on teams as the PMO representative and project leader. Key responsibilities include building cross-functional project schedules from first principles, leading project management activities such as project planning, tracking, risk management, and communications, and leading continuous improvement projects to drive better execution of projects. The individual will also have responsibility for resource management activities and will support the overall project management infrastructure, including metrics, reporting, administration, business reviews, and project governance. Additionally, they will contribute occasionally as the leader of crisis teams chartered with getting projects back on track and participate in implementing best practice tools and techniques in project management within projects and within PVH R&D. The role also involves managing changing priorities on projects through effective schedule management and deployment of PM methodologies, while keeping the Team Leader and key Sponsors and Stakeholders informed of organizational capacity constraints and portfolio risks. The individual is expected to operate as a role model by striving for continuous improvement and being an agent of change.