Senior Program Manager, Product Development - Northridge or San Diego

Medtronic - Los Angeles, CA

Full-time - Senior

Los Angeles, 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 with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world. This role presents a promising opportunity to join the Portfolio Management team, focusing on the development of the Multiple Daily Injection System (MDIS) at Medtronic Diabetes. You will be involved in various hardware innovations within the MDIS portfolio, while also having the chance to work on the entire product portfolio that encompasses Cloud, Software, and App components. Reporting to the MDIS Portfolio Leader, you will manage one or more programs, leading the Core Team to drive decisions and execute them effectively. The ideal candidate should possess a strong background in medical device product development, excellent problem-solving abilities, and program/project management skills, along with experience in influencing cross-functional stakeholders. You will be accountable to the Product Review Committee and PMO Leader for overall program execution, maintaining the phase schedule and leading cross-functional teams through successful completion of the phase review process. Your responsibilities will include resolving action items initiated at phase reviews, ensuring that cross-functional resources are assigned and held accountable for task and outcome completion, and managing project budgets to meet established return on investments per project. In this role, you will also provide a communication link between the project team and the PRC, ensuring team deliverables comply with the PDP process and meet the PRC's expectations. You will coach team members to ensure process adherence and effective project management, utilizing best practice project management skills. Additionally, you will guide and assist in PDP continuous improvement initiatives, provide feedback to functional department heads during the AOP and strategic planning processes, and oversee the operational aspects of ongoing projects, serving as a liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management. Your ability to assess project issues and develop resolutions will be crucial in meeting productivity, quality, and client satisfaction goals and objectives.

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 and resources designed to support employees at every career and life stage.