IT Project Lead

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

This position requires a seasoned individual contributor to join our team. The ideal candidate will operate with a high level of autonomy and possess strong analytical, leadership, and communication skills. You will be responsible for driving key projects or processes, improving systems and operations, and providing strategic recommendations to enhance performance and outcomes in your job area. In-depth experience and a strong knowledge in Portfolio Management Applications from administration, configuration, development, customization, deployment, and business perspective would be an added advantage.

This will be a remote position based in Colombia.

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

• Responsible for consolidation and delivery of all application enhancements and requirements from multiple OU/Business/Function stakeholders for portfolio management applications for various Medtronic business groups including IT, CVG Operations PMOs, and Medtronic Business Services  

• Be part of the analysis of impact for the enhancements and new requirements to the portfolio management application for users and project managers around the globe.  

• Monitor portfolio management applications assignment group queue in Service Now and troubleshoot any issues, including through investigation of SharePoint log files.  

• Assist project managers with all and any issues and questions regarding portfolio management application.  

• Work with IT Shared Services teams to follow Change Management, Release Management, and Systems Development Lifecycle  

• Utilize Waterfall and/or Agile Methodologies to monitor adherence to program management guidance and directives issued on projects. 

Required Knowledge and Experience: 

• Fluent in English 

• Requires a bachelor's degree in project management or related  

• Minimum of 3 years of project management, technical and enterprise systems management experience. 

• Experience in Reporting tools (e.g. Power BI) 

• Experience in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 

• Excellent problem-solving skills 

• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in written form 

• Ability to communicate and document complex issues and procedures 

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and build strong working relationships. 

• Self-starter able to establish relationships in a matrix environment 

• Ability to work with remote teams of professionals and able to work independently to achieve objectives 

Preferred Experience: 

• Planisware Application experience or certification (preferable) 

• Any relevant Project Management Certification 

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.
 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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