Product Development Program Manager
About The Position
The Product Development Program Manager leads a set of energy-component projects for internal customers. The role combines hands-on leadership of small, matrixed teams with an understanding of business needs, differing quality systems, and functional best practices. The scope includes program management of Research and Technology (R&T) energy solutions projects and business relationships, alongside development and qualification of externally sourced battery cells. Program execution is the primary responsibility, supported by capability improvement and new project estimation. The position is based at Medtronic’s Brooklyn Center, Minnesota facility and requires at least four days per week onsite for in-person collaboration. It may require up to 10% travel to support business objectives, in-person meetings, and project activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree and at least 3 years of relevant experience.
- For a bachelor’s degree earned outside the United States, the degree must satisfy the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A).
- Roles below Principal level require unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
Responsibilities
- Lead concurrent projects from initiation through closure, managing customer-specific scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, and completion criteria while coordinating shared resources and dependencies.
- Translate business needs into executable requirements and plans, navigating multiple operating-unit quality systems and applicable Product Development Process, R&T, development, or qualification processes.
- Align internal customers, suppliers, Quality, Reliability, and Supply Management on required deliverables and evidence while preserving functional ownership of technical and quality decisions.
- Direct small, matrixed teams and external partners by establishing priorities, clarifying accountability, reviewing deliverables, resolving cross-functional barriers, and balancing customer and functional objectives.
- Monitor delivery and budget performance.
- Load, monitor, and update multiple resource-management tools for programs.
- Investigate difficult or undefined issues and implement timely interventions to meet business, quality, productivity, and customer-satisfaction objectives.
- Communicate status and resource or funding trade-offs, resolve issues within the role’s authority, and escalate issues and roadblocks through the tier escalation process.
- Apply lessons from program delivery, external technology evaluations, and battery-cell qualifications to improve program-management practices, tools, development processes, and functional work-packet standards in partnership with functional owners.
- Partner with functional owners to implement agreed capability improvements.
- Use execution measures to strengthen project governance, capacity planning, and visibility into shared-resource constraints and risks, supporting cross-functional collaboration and the MECC Mission.
- Partner with operating-unit customers and management to estimate project scope, cost, and schedule for business partners.
- Coordinate external partner relationships supporting evaluation of new energy solutions, stakeholder alignment, and risk mitigation.
- Maintain a project roadmap and provide scope, schedule, resource, and funding recommendations to business leaders for strategic and AOP planning.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
- Eligible for the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) short-term incentive.
- Health insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- Health Savings Account.
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account.
- Life insurance.
- Long-term disability leave.
- Dependent daycare spending account.
- Tuition assistance or reimbursement.
- Simple Steps global well-being program.
- Incentive plans.
- 401(k) plan with 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 for Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
