Principal Learning Program Lead (Enterprise Programs)
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. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world. The Principal Quality Systems Specialist plays a critical role in supporting large-scale enterprise system implementations across Medtronic, enabling the successful execution of Wave deployments. This position manages the high volume and complexity of activities required to prepare the organization for system deployment, including role and context mapping, training coordination and delivery, and user readiness initiatives. The role supports enterprise-wide alignment across multiple functions and stakeholders to ensure deployment timelines, quality standards, and compliance requirements are met. The Principal Quality Systems Specialist leads coordination of implementation activities, facilitates training and change readiness efforts, and helps ensure that users are prepared for system adoption at go-live. By overseeing these efforts, the role mitigates risk related to deployment schedule delays, business and financial impacts, and gaps in user readiness. This position is essential to managing the scale and complexity of cross-functional implementation work while supporting successful system adoption and sustained operational performance. At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with 7 years of work experience in Quality or regulated industry OR Advanced degree with 5 years of work experience in Quality or regulated industry
- For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
- U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
Nice To Haves
- Strong learning and development background, with hands-on experience designing or managing training solutions—not just project coordination (learning = different solution implementations: ILT (instructor led training), eLearning, Teams training, etc.).
- Experience leading learning workstreams for large, complex programs or system implementations (e.g., SAP, PLM, digital transformations), including integration with broader program timelines.
- Ability to translate business and system changes into training impact, proactively identifying downstream effects to training strategy, delivery, and learner readiness.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of learning program delivery (strategy through execution and sustainment) in complex or regulated environments.
Responsibilities
- Manages learning initiatives for large Medtronic programs, including integrated project plans, milestones, deliverables, risks, dependencies, and implementation readiness.
- Partners with program teams, process owners, SMEs, change management, communications, LMS/CSOD resources, vendors, and training specialists to align learning deliverables to program timelines and business objectives.
- Supports learner readiness through audience analysis, role mapping, training strategy, content coordination, completion tracking, status reporting, and post-launch support.
- Applies quality system knowledge to ensure learning plans, training records, and implementation activities remain compliant, effective, and inspection-ready.
- Provides oversight for the development and maintenance of quality programs, systems, processes and procedures that ensure compliance with policies and that the performance and quality of services conform to established internal and external standards and guidelines.
- Provides expertise and guidance in interpreting policies, regulatory and/or governmental regulations, and internal regulations to assure compliance.
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
