Prin 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 role is for a dynamic Principal IT Project Lead working in the Enterprise Architecture, Global Functions and SAP COE (EAGFSAP) IT Value Stream. This role will support projects within our Global Functions (HR, Legal and Compliance), the SAP Center of Excellence and various continuous improvements.

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

• Leads and directs one or more project teams engaged in global initiatives across functional and regional organizations

• Develops and manages all facets of the project(s) from intake through implementation and closure

• Accountable for the successful implementation of the outcomes derived through the change through effective organization and leadership, business case and benefits management, stakeholder management, risk management and issue resolution, planning and control, change management and quality management

• Ensures the project adheres to all Corporate and IT policies and standards

• Responsible for effectively managing the constraints of project management: Scope, Cost, Schedule

• Provides technical and analytical guidance and recommendations to leadership governance bodies

• Keeps current on advances and best practices in project management methodologies

• Responsible for all phases of multiple concurrent projects or a single large-scale, complex program

• Build trust and rapport with key stakeholders and facilitate executive (i.e. VP) level steering committees discussions

• Define program and/or project scope and objectives along with applicable project estimates, detailed work plans, schedules, and resource plans

• Provide leadership to multiple project managers to achieve program objectives with high-quality work products that are delivered on time and on budget

• Ensure end results meet business and stakeholder benefit expectations

• Follow Medtronic’s quality system procedures to ensure compliance with system validation requirements

• Foster strong working relationships between project team members

• Create an environment for project team members that allows for independent team decision making

• Ensure that Medtronic's systems and the information on them are protected in accordance with Medtronic's Information Protection Policies and Standards, as well as best Information Protection practices

• Monitor and control project financial metrics and make adjustments where necessary to meet scope, schedule and budget expectations

• Institutionalize Medtronic’s development life cycle process and ensure methodologies are implemented effectively for project management processes and techniques

• Follow the Medtronic Global IT engagement management model as well as ensure it is aligned with corporate engagement models

• Follow the Medtronic Global IT project management processes · Provide analytical guidance to project team in support of issue and risk resolutions

• Escalate project issues as appropriate

Required Knowledge:

• · Bachelor’s degree

• 7+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of experience with an advanced degree

• Global IT Project Management experience

• Experience managing highly technical personnel assigned to projects

• Proven experience in driving large projects and programs in a multiple service integrator (SI) environment

• Fiscal management, budget tracking, and reporting experience

• Sound business and technical acumen (artificial intelligence, SAP, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, automations)

Nice to have:

• Previous Medtronic experience

• Prior experience in a hands-on technical role including but not limited to software develop, architect, etc

• Ability to create detailed project plans in Microsoft Project

• Resource, cost, and budget planning/estimation experience

• Experience facilitating working sessions and steering committee meetings

• Extensive experience and demonstrated success developing stakeholder partnerships

• Demonstrated success managing large-scale, complex projects involving multiple internal and external stakeholders and partners in a matrixed organization

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