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A Day in the Life

Project Manager shall be responsible for planning, executing, and finalizing projects according to strict timelines and within budget.
This includes aligning resources, coordinating team efforts, and ensuring project objectives align with the company’s goals.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Lead or collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project scope, goals, deliverables, and success criteria.

• Develop detailed project plans including timelines, budgets, and resource allocations.

• Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills.

• Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Excel, Smartsheet, etc.).

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• Strategic thinking and sound decision-making.

• Strong problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills.

• Adaptability and resilience under pressure.

• Assign responsibilities and manage day-to-day project execution to ensure milestones are achieved.

• Monitor project progress against plans, identify deviations, and adjust strategies as needed.

• Conduct regular project reviews, status meetings, and stakeholder updates.

• Identify, track, and mitigate project risks; resolve conflicts and remove obstacles as needed.

• Ensure project deliverables meet quality and compliance standards.

• Prepare and present reports to senior management on project progress, risks, and outcomes.

• Drive continuous improvement through post-project analysis and stakeholder feedback.

• Develop mechanisms for effective project tracking, reporting, and governance.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for all project-related communications.

SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes .
Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager .
Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level specialists.

Organizational Impact: Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results .
May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, moderately complex and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation .
Develops solutions to moderately complex problems, and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area.
Implements solutions to problems.

Communication and Influence: Represents organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels .
May negotiate with others to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management: Typically provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.
Typically manages major / moderately complex projects, involving delegation of work and review of work products, at times acting as a team leader.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
May have broad knowledge of project management.
Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum 9 years of relevant experience

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.

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.

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