PD Program Manager - CST - Lafayette, CO or Boxborough, MA (Onsite)
About The Position
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 22 Aug 2026 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 As one of three comprehensive portfolios at Medtronic, Neuroscience is dedicated to improving the lives of people living with neurological disorders, spine conditions, and chronic pain. Guided by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life, we develop technologies and therapies that help people regain function, reduce pain, and return to the activities that matter most. Our Cranial & Spinal Technologies (CST) Operating Unit develops and delivers an integrated ecosystem of spinal implants, navigation and robotic guidance systems, advanced imaging, and data-driven planning tools for complex spine and cranial procedures. Platforms such as AiBLE™ connect these technologies to enhance surgical precision, streamline workflows, and support improved patient outcomes worldwide. This PD Program Manager position resides within the Released Product Management (RPM) PMO organization. The primary focus of this role is leading released-product sustainment projects for Navigation product within the Platform & Solutions portfolio, partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure product supply continuity, maintain product compliance, and support ongoing business and customer needs. The role requires strong project leadership, stakeholder management, and execution skills to drive projects from initiation through completion while balancing scope, schedule, budget, quality, and regulatory requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor Degree with minimum of 5 years of relevant program or project management experience, OR Advance degree with minimum of 3 years of relevant program or project management experience
- Experience managing project schedules, budgets, resources, and deliverables.
- Highly organized, strategic, and able to lead cross-functional projects and manage stakeholders in matrixed environment
Nice To Haves
- Advance degree is preferred.
- Experience in medical device, healthcare technology, or other highly regulated industries.
- Experience leading product sustainment, lifecycle management, post-market, or released-product projects.
- Knowledge of product development processes, design controls, risk management, and change management within regulated environments.
- Understanding of product lifecycle management, product compliance, supply continuity, and obsolescence management activities.
- Experience supporting navigation, imaging, robotics, spinal, or other capital equipment products.
- PMP, Agile, or other project management certification.
- Experience working within global, matrixed organizations and leading geographically dispersed teams.
- Strong stakeholder management, organizational change management, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and drive alignment across engineering, quality, regulatory, operations, supply chain, and manufacturing functions.
Responsibilities
- Lead released-product sustainment projects for Navigation portfolio products, ensuring successful execution against project timelines, budgets, quality objectives, and business priorities.
- Drive cross-functional project teams consisting of engineering, quality, regulatory, operations, supply chain, manufacturing, and other key stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, resource plans, budgets, and project deliverables.
- Ensure product supply continuity by coordinating execution of product changes, component obsolescence activities, supplier-driven changes, manufacturing improvements, and compliance-related initiatives.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to maintain product compliance with applicable regulatory, quality, and business requirements.
- Identify, assess, and proactively mitigate project risks and issues while managing scope, priorities, and stakeholder expectations.
- Facilitate effective communication and alignment across geographically dispersed teams and multiple CST locations.
- Provide project status updates, key metrics, and recommendations to leadership and stakeholders to support timely decision-making.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives through the application of project management best practices, lessons learned, and process enhancements.
- Build strong partnerships across product teams and functional organizations to drive execution excellence and successful business outcomes.
Benefits
- Health, Dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement
- Simple Steps (global well-being program)
- Incentive plans
- 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
- Short-term disability
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
- Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
