Senior Program Manager, Product Development - Northridge or San Diego

Medtronic - San Diego, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Diego, CA

10,001+ employees

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

At Medtronic, you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. As a Senior Program Manager in Product Development, you will lead the development of the Multiple Daily Injection System (MDIS) at Medtronic Diabetes. This role will focus on various hardware innovations within the MDIS portfolio, while also allowing you to work on the entire product portfolio that encompasses Cloud, Software, and App components. You will report to the MDIS Portfolio Leader and be responsible for managing one or more programs, leading the Core Team to drive decisions and execute on them. In this position, you will be accountable to the Product Review Committee and PMO Leader for overall program execution. You will maintain the phase schedule and lead cross-functional teams through successful completion of the phase review process, ensuring that products are launched on time and meet established goals and objectives that support the financial and competitive goals of the organization. You will manage project budgets, track expenses, and ensure compliance with the product development process. Additionally, you will coach team members to ensure process adherence and effective project management, while guiding continuous improvement initiatives. Your role will also involve providing feedback to functional department heads during the annual operating plan and strategic planning processes, overseeing the operational aspects of ongoing projects, and serving as a liaison between project management and planning, project teams, and line management. You will review project statuses, manage schedules, prepare status reports, and develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress, ensuring that productivity, quality, and client satisfaction goals are met.

Responsibilities

• Accountable to the Product Review Committee and PMO Leader for overall program execution.
• Maintains the phase schedule and leads PDP cross-functional team(s) through successful completion of the phase review process.
• Resolves action items initiated at phase reviews.
• Ensures that cross-functional resources are assigned and held accountable for task and outcome completion.
• Ensures that products are launched on time and meet established goals and objectives that support the financial and competitive goals of the organization.
• Manages projects within portfolio and makes commitments to meet specific business goals and objectives.
• Manages and tracks project budget with components that include human resources, prototypes, suppliers, and general expenses to meet established return on investments per project.
• Provides the communication link between the project team and the PRC, and the PMO Leader and ensures team deliverables are in compliance with the PDP process and standard product development process, and meet the PRC's expectations.
• Coaches team members to ensure process adherence and effective project management, utilizing best practice project management skills, as well as framing and resolving issues through the PDP process and other best practices.
• Guide and assist in PDP continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide partnership and feedback to the design control facilitators.
• Provides feedback to functional department heads during AOP, strategic planning process and the performance management process.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with 7+ years program/project management related to product development, or relevant engineering leadership experience.
• OR Master's Degree with 5+ years program/project management related to product development, or relevant engineering leadership experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Program/project management experience in the medical device, aerospace, automotive or other highly regulated industry
• Masters in engineering or MBA
• Project Management Certification - PMP
• Experience in product development of medical devices preferably drug combo devices
• Experience devising and implementing streamlined processes and strategic programs to improve efficiency, timeliness, and productivity
• Experience in leading within matrix organizations requiring strong influence management skills
• Change agent -- willingness and ability to lead and institute change
• Influence management skills: experience working collaboratively at all levels in matrix environment to build and maintain the positive relationships required to accomplish organizational goals
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal/team effectiveness with ability to succinctly and accurately communicate to various levels of management and employees
• Business acumen: ability to think and act from an overall “best for the business” perspective
• Results oriented, strong sense of urgency
• Strong analytical, planning, organization, and time management skills to effectively develop and execute comprehensive programs and budgets
• Effective decision-making skills with ability to negotiate and balance decisions and priorities across needs of several functional departments and willingness to make tough decisions
• Makes timely decisions in the face of risk and uncertainty.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Flexible Benefits Package
• Short-term incentive plan
• Wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support employees at every career and life stage.