Program Manager - EU MDR & UKCA
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We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 28 Aug 2025.

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.

A Day in the Life

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.

You will be a core member of the Post Market Development - Compliance PMO within the Surgical Operating Unit, focused specifically on ensuring the Surgical product portfolio achieves initial EU MDR and UKCA compliance.

This Program Manager plays a critical role in ensuring ongoing product safety, efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and market readiness throughout the product lifecycle. This role collaborates closely across R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Clinical, Operations, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain.

Additionally, this role will help shape how the Compliance PMO engages across the Surgical Operating Unit and the broader enterprise, contributing to the development of scalable processes and governance models that enable timely and efficient compliance execution.

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.

You will:

• Develop and monitor schedules, plans, tasks, and priorities, ensuring a streamlined workflow.
• Drive problem-solving sessions, maintaining a sense of urgency and holding team members accountable to commitments.
• Anticipate and mitigate risks, balancing time, schedule, cost, and quality, while adhering to safety and regulatory standards.
• Manage project financials, including forecasting and tracking of accruals and actuals.
• Utilize large data sets of interdependent information to create recommendations for action and program success.
• Cultivate a broad understanding of Medtronic's Surgical product portfolio, leveraging this knowledge to drive project success.
• Develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with cross functional partners and stakeholders.
• Lead or leverage cross functional teams to evaluate, develop and manage projects for new product development and ongoing lifecycle management of products, processes and therapies.
• Oversee and manage the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serve as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
• Manage the development and implementation process of a company's products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products and processes.
• 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.
• Develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.
• Gather requirements, work on requirements planning, requirements elicitation and requirements management to ensure they meet demands of project's key stakeholders.
• Communicate with stakeholders, obtain stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.

Must Have:

• Bachelors Degree and minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• Or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience
• 3+ years of experience working with or managing cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment (e.g., R&D, Operations, Regulatory, Quality, Marketing).
• 3+ years leading multiple projects at once of increasing complexity
• 3+ years of experience with budget management or financial tracking within projects and programs
• 3+ years leading stakeholder communications across various peer and leadership levels of an organization

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge in product development and commercialization in the medical device industry
• PMP or PgMP certification
• Strong knowledge of EU MDR and UKCA regulations
• Experience directly managing or mentoring project managers and/or project coordinators
• Experience with advanced scheduling and resource management tools like Microsoft Project and/or Resource First/PDWare
• Power BI experience and creating data visualizations from large data sets

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

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.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD): $136,000.00 - $204,000.00. This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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