Senior T 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

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

· Develop a comprehensive project plan outlining tasks, timelines, resources, and milestones for manufacturing IT systems implementation.

· Manage a team of 10-15 Global Operations Supply Chain team in the core manufacturing and supply chain digital platform domain

· Define the project scope, goals, and objectives, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy.

· Identify potential risks and develop mitigation plans to ensure successful project execution.

· Lead a diverse cross-functional project team, encompassing IT professionals, process engineers, production units, and external consultants.

· Establish a collaborative environment conducive to effective communication and harmonious coordination among team members.

· Work closely with business stakeholders to gather and document functional and technical requirements for the IT systems implementation solution.

· Lead the implementation of Manufacturing IT Systems with extensive experience in large scale program management, manufacturing IT platforms, MES platforms, SAP, and team leadership.

· Provide updates to leadership team

· Experience in implementing enterprise data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, Synapse), including data integration activities such as data ingestion, transformation (ETL/ELT), and ensuring robust, scalable data architecture

· (Good to Have) Experience in implementing application and system monitoring solutions using tools like Dynatrace and SolarWinds to ensure observability and reliability. OR any monitoring experience will be helpful.

· Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams and stakeholders to gather business and technical requirements, translating them into a clear, actionable 3-year data platform roadmap.

· Proven experience in effective team management, including coordination with external vendors and partners to ensure timely delivery, alignment with technical goals, and quality outcomes.

· Demonstrated ability to manage project budgets, including financial tracking, forecasting, and monthly reporting to ensure alignment with organizational goals and governance standards.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

· Bachelor’s degree (Required); advanced degree preferred.

· Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in IT project or program management roles.

· 4+ years team management experience of 10+ team members

· Prior experience in regulated or validated industries is a strong plus.

Skills Needed

· Strong background in IT project management, especially in manufacturing or supply chain domains

· Experienced in leading multi-function cross-team collaboration between IT and Business

· Experience in managing program timelines, risks, status, escalations in timely manner

· Understand and work within Medtronic processes and tools

· Solid understanding of SDLC as well as good knowledge of Agile/Waterfall/Hybrid project management principles and practices

· Experience with Project management tools like DevOps

· Strong knowledge of MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Projects

· Experience managing Project Costing, Budget Forecasting, Resource Management

· Working knowledge of manufacturing IT systems like ERP, MES, etc.

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.

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.