Project Leader - Business Process Program Mgr
Careers that Change Lives
Are you looking to drive strategic cost improvement initiatives for the leader in the Medical Technology industry? As a core member of the Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VAVE) team supporting Enterprise Engineering, you will have responsibility for the planning and execution of value engineering projects that drive cost improvements across the entire portfolio of Medtronic products. You will utilize your robust project management skills to ensure project timelines, goals, and budgets are met while ensuring we are utilizing our resources efficiently and effectively. Each project managed in VAVE is critical to delivering on our 5-year strategic savings targets and ensuring the team is well positioned to drive continued value creation opportunities. You will be at the forefront of Medtronic’s Mission to Alleviate Pain, Restore Health, and Extend Life by improving our capability to deliver life-saving products and support new product innovation.
We prefer to have this person based near a Medtronic manufacturing facility in the US, Mexico, Dominican Republic or Ireland
You can grow your career with us; we hope you’ll consider joining our team!
A Day in the Life
- Manage one or more value creation projects from detailed planning through execution and closure
- Leads cross functional teams including design, quality, operations, category managements to ensure successful completion of projects and business goals
- Develop, communicate, and document project strategies and plans including budget, detailed schedule creation/maintenance, and KPIs
- Provide input to establishing program objectives, timelines, milestones, and budgets
- Ensure projects remain aligned with the project plan by addressing any resource conflicts and problems as they emerge
- Facilitate project team meetings: prepare agenda, facilitate discussion during meeting, take and distribute meeting minutes
- Track project spending by providing monthly forecasts on upcoming spending; forecast resource and skill set needs for the project and participate in resourcing discussions/negotiation
- Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives
- Demonstrate business acumen and successful experience managing all aspects of programs, including communicating with stakeholders and directing matrixed teams and resources
- Establish a measurement and reporting framework to review and report project progress with key stakeholders
- Use appropriate project management tools, communicate plans and risk management techniques to create rigor in project planning and execution
- Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives
- Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients
- Travel requirement: less than 25%
Must Haves
- Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of business process and/or project management experience OR advanced degree and 3+ years of business process and/or project management experience
Nice to Have
- Advanced degree
- Extensive experience leading projects/programs including financial accountability including strong preference for PMP certification
- Financial management skills
- Medical Device industry experience
- Demonstrated strong business acumen and planning experience
- Strong communication skills (written, verbal, listening (with all levels of the organization)
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to influence business leaders, stakeholders and individual contributors
- MS Project software experience
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)