PD Program Manager; ICT R&D), Mounds View, MN

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 4 Sep 2026

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

In this role, you will lead cross‑functional program teams to deliver innovative product In this role, you will lead cross‑functional program teams to deliver innovative product development and lifecycle initiatives that improve patient outcomes. As a PD Program Manager, you will play a critical role in driving execution excellence, enabling strategic alignment, and advancing Medtronic’s product development programs within the Interventional Cardiology Therapies PMO team.

• 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.
• Defines and executes operational aspects of product development programs including: schedule, project risk identification and mitigation plans, issue management, program management owned deliverable, budget and resource forecasting
• Monitors program progress and status through defined program objectives, KPIs, schedule progress, risk burndown, and effective issue mitigation and resolution strategies
• Develops mechanisms for tracking program performance, ensuring accountability, and enabling proactive intervention

• Drive strategic and executional alignment across R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, and other partner functions within program team
• Creates clear and concise program updates, risks, and recommendations for use in communication with leadership

• Demonstrates strategic thinking in establishing and managing program plans, requirements, and execution strategies that are aligned to the business priorities
• Ensure compliance with design controls requirements, quality systems, and regulatory requirements.
• Acts as subject matter expert to the team in the Product Development Process (PDP)

• Bachelors degree required
• 5 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years relevant experience.

• Advanced degree (MS, MBA, or equivalent) and/or PMP certification
• Experience managing both small scale and large-scale medical device product development programs through multiple phases with demonstrated success in driving execution, managing risk, and delivering results
• Experience with medical device product development (PDP / design controls)
• Proven ability to influence without authority in a global, matrixed organization

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.

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.…