Product Development Program Manager at Medtronic in Northridge, California

Job Description:

Careers That Change Lives

The Program Manager, Smart MDIS role is a leadership position within the Medtronic Diabetes Program Management Center of Excellence. The candidate will be responsible for achieving successful implementation of strategic product development programs utilizing the PDP (Product development process). The programs we will ask you to lead will result in transformative products impacting the lives of people living with Diabetes around the world.

This position will be a key partner in driving strategy and execution of programs that deliver products for patients using insulin injections to manage their diabetes. Our MDI solutions bring intelligent HW, applications, therapy solutions and features to share information with health care providers.

We will ask you to use best-in-class new product development practices as a competitive advantage for the business. You will have responsibility for either leading small programs under the direction of a Core Team Lead or providing program/project management structure to core teams working with a CTL. The program manager will lead and direct day to day activities for core team members through managing project plans, issues tracking, and accountability for deliverables across multiple functional organizations. They will also take on other programs that may be outside of the scope of new product development but related to product support (such as sustaining programs, significant compliance activities, product end of life, PDP improvement programs and support for individual CAPAs or other quality integration initiatives).

Diabetes

The Diabetes Group is working with the global community to change the way people manage diabetes. Together, we will transform diabetes care by expanding access, integrating care, and improving outcomes; so people with diabetes can enjoy greater freedom and better health.

This role supports patients who useMultiple Daily Injectionsto manage diabetes - weoptimize clinical outcomes and enhance the customer experience with our therapies and devices. We are focused on innovation in connected systems, such as our current in market product, InPen insulin injector pen.

We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Visit www.medtronicdiabetes.com to see an overview of the products in our Diabetes product portfolio.

A Day in the Life

Process and Strategy

• Work with PMO/portfolio lead to develop the process and strategy to develop a cadence of releases that allow us to maintain relevance and competitive differentiation in the market.
  
  
• Develop plans for how we will meet our needs to deliver next generation products to the market, including technical, clinical, and regulatory readiness
  
  

Program Execution

• Work with portfolio/PMO lead to lead programs and build out our next generation smart MDI products
  
  
  
  • Creating Project charters
    
    
  • Identifies resource needs and gaps
    
    
  • Maintains and executes schedule
    
    
  • Manages and tracks project budget (including suppliers and vendors)
    
    
  • Ensure team commitments are met and team members are held accountable
    
    
  
  
• Manages seamless execution of sustaining roadmap
  
  
• Accountable to the Product Review Committee and PMO Leader for overall program execution and leading PDP process.
  
  
• Resolves action items initiated at phase reviews.
  
  
• Provides the communication link between the project team and the PRC and the Program Leader
  
  

Communication

• Leads communication with core teams, leadership, other functions, and business units; including appropriate risk and escalation to management
  
  

Leadership

• Leads core team executions for small programs with alignment with the PMO/portfolio/core team lead.
  
  
• Engages team members to ensure effective team dynamics and mutual accountability.
  
  
• Bring and implement program management best practices within team. Influence positive change outside of Program Management team
  
  

Process Improvement

• Identifies and leads development and implementation of continuous improvement initiatives
  
  
• Provides regular updates for management review and decision making around program priorities, budget, timing, resources, and assumptions, including impact on the customer, enterprise-wide resources, and revenues.
  
  

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.

• Bachelor's Degree with 5+ years program experience related to product development or
  
  
• Master's Degree with 3+ years program experience related to product development
  
  

Nice to Have

Education

• Master's degree in Engineering
  
  
• Project Management Certification, such as PMP
  
  
• MBA or Masters in Product Development/Innovation field
  
  

Technical and soft Skills

• Program/project management experience in the medical device, aerospace, automotive or other highly regulated industry
  
  
• 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.
  
  

About Medtronic
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)

Additional Information

• Posting Date: Jan 18, 2022
• Travel: Yes, < 25 % of the Time

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