Program Manager; Core Team Lead Endo

Position: Program Manager (Core Team Lead) Endo
Location: Minneapolis

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 13 Jun 2026

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*
* Join Medtronic as a Program Manager in our Endoscopy Project Management Office (PMO). In this pivotal role, you'll lead cross-functional teams through our Product Development Process to deliver new technologies to our customers, and our Released Product Management process to sustain the technologies currently serving patients.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result - and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

This person will ensure their program teams are:

- Efficient, effective, and well-coordinated

- Focused on clear priorities, milestones, and goals

- Committed to developing and adhering to schedules

- Vigilant in managing budgets, including labor resources, and managing risks

- Dedicated to delivering quality commercial releases in compliance with established processes

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

+ Leads or leverages cross-functional teams to evaluate, develop and manage projects for new product development and ongoing lifecycle management of products, processes and therapies.

+ Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.

+ Develops and monitors schedules, plans, tasks, and priorities, ensuring a streamlined workflow.

+ Drives problem-solving sessions, maintaining a sense of urgency and holding team members accountable to commitments.

+ Anticipates and mitigates risks, balancing time, schedule, cost, and quality, while adhering to safety and regulatory standards.

+ Manages project financials, including forecasting and tracking of accruals and actuals.

+ 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 external partners.

+ Accountable for ensuring that the Core Team(s) achieve contracted commitments and performance metrics.

+ Gathers requirements, works on requirements planning, requirements elicitation and requirements management to ensure they meet demands of project's key stakeholders.

+ Communicates with stakeholders, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.

** PROGRAM MANAGEMENT CAREER STREAM:
** Program Managers focus on tactical, operational activities for a major program with broad or ongoing impact. Levels within the program management career stream typically accomplish program objectives through matrixed employee teams and / or vendors who are not direct reports but for which the incumbent has direct accountability to lead. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, managing program/team performance, communicating project and operational developments, planning, prioritizing and / or directing the responsibilities of program team members.

Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of program team members.

** DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS*
* ** Autonomy:
** Manages one or more small-scale, developed or mature programs with well-defined program plans and delivery methodologies.

Is accountable for overall program process, performance, and customer satisfaction.

** Organizational Impact:
** Provides input to establishing program objectives, timelines, milestones, and budgets.

Recommends new policies and procedures that affect program management.

May have budget accountability for one or more programs.

Program decisions are generally made only after consultation with higher level management.

** Innovation and Complexity:
** Problems faced are difficult, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.

Problems typically impact multiple work streams, departments or specialties.

Modifies programs management processes to improve program.

** Communication and Influence:
** Communicates and leads meetings with internal and external customers and vendors, conducts briefings to higher level management team.

Solves issues through information exchange, influence and active persuasion without direct exercise of command to gain cooperation of other parties on program execution plans.

** Leadership and Talent Management:
** Leads, directs and reviews the work of a team of professionals and/or vendors who…