Sustaining Project Manager Office - Manager; MedSurg - Hybrid - Eagan, MN​/San Antonio, TX

Thank you for your interest in joining Solventum. Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best. Guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence, we collaborate with the best minds in healthcare to address our customers’ toughest challenges. We enable better, smarter, safer healthcare and pioneer game‑changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science while keeping people and their well‑being at the heart of everything we do.

The Manager Sustaining PMO reports to the Med Surg R&D PMO and partners with Cross‑Functional Leadership to drive effective portfolio management and predictable project execution. This highly visible role provides strategic leadership for building and executing program/project management capabilities for the predictable execution of Solventum’s product lifecycle management. The position requires equal parts team leadership, cross‑functional strategic planning, and disciplined program management.

You will provide insights and recommendations to Leadership Teams for budget, scope, and schedule decisions supporting strategic objectives.

• Develop and mentor engineering and project management staff, building capability to lead initiatives ranging from small projects to complex, enterprise‑wide programs.
• Lead structured governance meetings and deliver clear, data‑driven updates to senior business and functional leaders, covering progress, risks, budget, schedule, scope, and resource needs.
• Foster a high‑performance culture by guiding team members, identifying development needs, and strengthening organizational project and program management competencies.
• Establish, maintain, and improve consistent governance processes, ensuring transparent and timely communication of project and program status to leadership.
• Evaluate and optimize existing tools (Microsoft Project Server, Accolade, PLM, etc.) to provide real‑time reporting of portfolio metrics.
• Incorporate problem‑solving and clear communication to executive staff.
• Work with functional leaders to drive resource management planning, tracking, and leveraging estimating tasks to determine resource requirements to meet project and program goals.
• Contribute to annual operating plan and lead long‑term strategic planning efforts.
• Participate in corporate initiatives to identify enhancements to existing tools and capabilities related to program and resource management.

• An undergraduate degree in a technical field and a minimum of 10 years of experience in medical device development, engineering, operations, or project management within a regulated industry.
• Three years of formal leadership experience or people‑management capacity guiding teams within a program‑driven environment.
• Experience communicating clearly and effectively, including regular communication with executive leadership.
• An advanced degree such as an MBA is preferred.
• PMP or ACP certification preferred, or willingness to obtain certification within one year of hire.
• Experience with Microsoft Project and Project Server, including implementation or enterprise‑level deployment, strongly preferred.

• Hybrid Eligible – Job duties allow for some remote work but require travel to Eagan or San Antonio at least 3 days per week.

May include up to 25% domestic/international travel.

May be authorized.

Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

The expected compensation range for this position is $163,200 – $224,400, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. Additional benefits may include Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences, and Retirement Benefits.…