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. This is an onsite role located at our North Haven, CT site. At the intersection of healthcare innovation and project management expertise, we invite you to lead the charge in ensuring customer satisfaction design integrity, and impeccable quality across each milestone. The Principal Product Development Project Management Specialist will support the Core Surgical Innovations (CSI) business in an on-site position based out of North Haven, CT. We seek out and hire a diverse workforce at every level: We need fresh ideas and inclusive insights to continue to be an innovative industry leader - that's why we make it a point to seek out, attract and develop employees who are patient-centric, passionate, and who represent the same wide variety of life experiences as our patients.
Responsibilities
- Lead multifaceted cross-functional teams, encompassing Design, Development, Verification, Validation, Documentation.
- Develop and uphold project plans, schedules, risk registers, budgets, and resource allocation for designated projects.
- Champion timely and effective communication, continuously updating stakeholders on the project's advancement.
- Manage project meetings, meticulously document meeting minutes and pivotal decisions, and diligently track action items.
- Foster harmony between the project team, the business, and other stakeholders.
- Establish robust channels for both formal and informal communication, relaying accurate and current information to all stakeholders.
- Organize and guide a diverse array of distributed, cross-functional resources toward triumphant outcomes.
- Serve as the primary liaison for prominent leaders and stakeholders spanning the organization.
- Engage stakeholders, ensuring their involvement in shaping end products and processes that effectively address business challenges.
- Contribute to project prioritization decisions by offering data-driven insights and analysis derived from ongoing and previous projects.
- Review status of projects and budgets; manage schedules and prepare status reports.
- Monitor the project from initiation through delivery.
- Assess project issues and develop resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 7+ years managing technical related projects OR: an advanced degree and 5 years of experience managing technical related projects.
Nice-to-haves
- Master's degree in Engineering and/or scientific discipline, or MBA.
- PMP Certification or other PMI certification.
- Experience with ProChain scheduling methodology.
- Expert skills with managing project plan, scope, schedule, budget, and risk register.
- Agile Software Development certification, including SAFe.
- Lean/Six Sigma Certification.
- Expert skills in JIRA, JAMA, Polarion, PowerBI tools.
- Experience leading diverse and complex projects and programs and coordinating multiple teams to execute concurrent, interdependent projects.
- Knowledge of medical device R&D, product development, and clinical/regulatory procedures.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and able to influence all customers on issues that impact the business.
- Expert active listening skills with a keen awareness for various messaging styles.
- Exceptional influencing and interpersonal skills, negotiating; managing change; goal setting; planning and organizing teamwork.
- Experience participating in internal and external audits as a Subject Matter Expert.
- Comprehensive knowledge of medical device standards and regulations.
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.
- 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.
- Capital Accumulation Plan.
