Product Development Program Manager

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 18 Nov 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.

A Day in the Life

The Product Development Program Manager leads a set of energy-component projects for internal customers. The role combines hands-on leadership of small, matrixed teams with an understanding of business needs, differing quality systems, and functional best practices. Scope includes Program Management of Research and Technology (R&T) energy solutions projects and business relationships, alongside development and qualification of externally sourced battery cells. Program execution is the primary responsibility, supported by capability improvement and new project estimation.

This position will be based at our Brooklyn Center, MN facility which requires a minimum of 4 days per week on-site for in-person collaboration. This role may require up to 10% travel to support business objectives, in-person meetings and project activities.

Primary Responsibilities

1. Program Execution

• Lead concurrent projects from initiation through closure, maintaining customer-specific scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, and completion criteria while coordinating shared resources and dependencies
• Translate business needs into executable requirements and plans, navigating multiple different OU quality systems and Product Development Process (PDP), R&T, development, or qualification processes; Align internal customers, suppliers, Quality, Reliability, and Supply Management on required deliverables and evidence while preserving functional ownership of technical and quality decisions
• Direct small, matrixed teams and external partners to establish priorities, clarify accountability, review deliverables, and resolve cross-functional barriers while balancing differing customer and functional objectives
• Monitor delivery and budget performance
• Load, monitor, and update multiple resource management tools for your programs
• Investigate difficult or undefined issues, and implement timely interventions to meet business, quality, productivity, and customer-satisfaction objectives
• Communicate status and resources or funding trade-offs, resolve issues within your authority, escalate issues and roadblocks through the tier escalation process

2. Improve Capabilities

• Apply lessons from program delivery, external technology evaluations, and battery-cell qualifications to improve program management practices, tools, development processes, and functional work packet standards in partnership with functional owners; Partner with functional owners to implement agreed improvements
• Use execution measures to strengthen project governance, capacity planning, and visibility to shared-resource constraints and risks, supporting cross-functional collaboration and the MECC Mission

3. New Business Proposals

• Partner with OU customers and management to estimate project scope, cost and schedule for our business partners
• Coordinate external partner relationships supporting the evaluation of new energy solutions, alignment with stakeholder needs, and risk mitigation
• Maintain a project roadmap and provide scope, schedule, resource, and funding recommendations to business leaders for strategic and AOP planning

Requirements:

• Requires a Baccalaureate degree AND minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, OR advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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.

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. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

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