Project Manager, Quality Management

Careers that Change Lives

The Senior Principal Project Manager leads or leverages cross functional teams internally or externally to evaluate, develop and manage projects for research and technology. 

A Day in the Life


~ • 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. • Manages the development and implementation process of a company’s products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products and processes. • 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 clients. • 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. • Responsible for reporting complaints and Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR)• Responsible for the initiation, design, development, execution, and implementation of scientific research projects and grants. • Responsible for developing schedules, plans, budget, deliverables and executing on schedule and budget. • Investigates the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to potential inventions and products. • Ensuring the appropriate processes are being followed and deliverables are being met on schedule. • May coordinate interdepartmental activities and research efforts. • May coordinate and develop grants with internal and external cross-functional teams. • Communicates with stakeholders, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems. • Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management. • Manages the development and implementation process of a company’s products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products and processes. • 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 clients. • Gathers requirements, works on requirements planning, requirements elicitation and requirements management to ensure they meet demands of project’s key stakeholders.

MUST HAVE:MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

~ KNOWLEDGE/EDUCATION • Bachelor’s degree, or; • Advanced degree.  JOB EXPERIENCE • Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, with a bachelor's degree, or; • Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, with an advanced degree.  SKILLS/COMPETENCIES • Comfortable dealing with ambiguity • Confident about being able to apply business acumen to help make pragmatic trade off decisions between time-to-market, product costs, product reliability, product features, and budget.

DESIRED/PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS 
KNOWLEDGE/EDUCATION
• The degree should be in Physics, Applied Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related areas.
• The degree should showcase practical work in front-end engineering through solving significant clinical gaps in current and novel markets. 
JOB EXPERIENCE 
• Managed teams
• Project management experience
• Technical
• Management:
o Experience managing junior and senior engineers including vendors, and manufacturers – creating a mission driven culture across groups.
o Experience in financial modeling, budget management and forecasting
o Experience in assembling and managing a team of experts with varied domain expertise.
o Experience mentoring reports to nurture their interest, understand their strengths, ,areas of improvement and goals
• Clinical expertise:
o Strong background in clinical study development and execution
o Experience in rigorous iterative product development tied with clinical experimentation, validation, and feedback.
• Business acumen:
o Successfully facilitated funding from donor organizations or within the organization for personal or corporate projects
o Track record of conducting market analysis and customer discovery leading to new project areas o Experience in value-based healthcare models.
• Technological expertise:
o Strong background in human-centered design and user-centered design
o Experience with model development and simulation studies.
o Experience in lean product development and agile development methods.
o Experience with Machine Learning, and Deep Learning networks.
o Experience in medical device productization – quality system management, regulatory submissions, manufacturing, and iterative product development.
• Organizational and soft skills:
o Proven track record in developing relationships and collaborating with an international set of varied partners. 
SKILLS/COMPETENCIES
• Clinical expertise:
o Strong interest in human anatomy and physiology
o Understanding of the human cardiovascular and respiratory systems
o Ability to grasp medical concepts with ease and depth.
• Business acumen:
o Familiarity with business model and plan development and iteration
o Expertise in patent landscape analysis and the patent application process.
o Familiarity with FDA regulations and ISO standards in medical device development and IEC standards for software development
• Technological expertise:
o Ability to distill core engineering principles for application in early concepts.
o Prowess with rapid prototyping and design of experiments for a rigorous datadriven approach to product development
o Firm understanding of mathematics and linear algebra used in computational modeling.
• Organizational and soft skills:
o Communication skills that bridge varying roles within the company, hierarchy within the organization, and external partners
o Entrepreneurial mindset – the ability to evaluate, initiate, and execute new directions for the business unit and company, leading projects and assembling teams to execute on reaching outcomes. 
Base Salary Range: 120K - 180K 

About Medtronic
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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.
Physical Job Requirements
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