Program Manager- Manufacturing Transformation
Medtronic
Summary
The Program Manager is responsible for leading a portfolio of complex, cross-functional capacity expansion and manufacturing transformation initiatives. This role serves as the primary program leadership interface between Operations, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and Business Unit stakeholders to ensure successful execution of strategic capital investments, capacity expansion programs, technology transfers, and manufacturing improvement and readiness activities.
Job description
A Day in the Life
The Program Manager is responsible for leading a portfolio of complex, cross-functional capacity expansion and manufacturing transformation initiatives. This role serves as the primary program leadership interface between Operations, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and Business Unit stakeholders to ensure successful execution of strategic capital investments, capacity expansion programs, technology transfers, and manufacturing improvement and readiness activities.
The successful candidate will drive large and small scale programs from concept through commercialization, ensuring alignment to business growth strategies, operational excellence objectives, and financial commitments while mitigating risks to supply continuity and product availability.
Responsibilities
- Leads or leverages cross functional teams to evaluate, develop and manage projects for key business processes.
- Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
- Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
- Monitors the project from initiation through delivery.
- 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.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience OR an advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, Supply Chain, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of program management, portfolio management, operations, engineering, manufacturing, or related experience.
- Experience building strategic roadmaps.
- Experience influencing stakeholders across functions and organizational levels.
- Experience with change management, coaching, and mentoring.
- Experience managing projects, including time management, client relationship management, conflict resolution, training facilitation, and administrative responsibilities.
- Experience establishing Voice of Operations (VOO) and/or Voice of Customer (VOC) requirements within the Product Development Process (PDP).
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
- PMP certification or equivalent project/program management certification.
For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience OR an advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years relevant experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, Supply Chain, or a related technical field (preferred)
- 5+ years of program management, portfolio management, operations, engineering, manufacturing, or related experience (preferred)
- Experience building strategic roadmaps (preferred)
- Experience influencing stakeholders across functions and organizational levels (preferred)
- Experience with change management, coaching, and mentoring (preferred)
- Experience managing projects, including time management, client relationship management, conflict resolution, training facilitation, and administrative responsibilities (preferred)
- Experience establishing Voice of Operations (VOO) and/or Voice of Customer (VOC) requirements within the Product Development Process (PDP) (preferred)
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification (preferred)
- PMP certification or equivalent project/program management certification (preferred)
- For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required
- Unrestricted U.S. work authorization required at time of hire and for duration of employment
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance
- Long-term Disability Leave
- Dependent Daycare Spending Account
- Tuition Assistance
- 401(k) Matching
- Short-term Disability
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Incentive Plans
Company overview
Medtronic is a global healthcare technology leader and one of the world's largest medical device companies, founded in 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company operates in over 150 countries and employs more than 90,000 people worldwide. Medtronic's mission is to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life through innovative medical technologies. The company develops and manufactures devices and therapies to treat more than 70 health conditions, including cardiac devices, cranial and spine robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems, and more. With a rich history that began with the invention of the battery-powered pacemaker, Medtronic has grown into a diversified healthcare technology company with four main business units: Minimally Invasive Therapies Group, Diabetes Group, Restorative Therapies Group, and Cardiac and Vascular Group. The company's therapies help approximately 72 million people annually and represent a significant force in advancing medical technology to address some of humanity's most challenging health problems.