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.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Works with Sr Director SW & Systems in formulating vision and strategy in collaboration with the Global Operating Unit leadership, sustaining / initiating - growing engagements with the Global R&D Units. Collaborates with Director of Software in driving software excellence for respective OU partnerships/programs
Leads his/ her team in delivering on commitments, creating solutions, accelerating innovation with focus on software excellence
Develops and maintains a deep technical understanding of OUs product lines and technologies
Defines the engineering skill sets that best align to OUs needs and creates a staffing strategy
Builds a superior team; establishes and maintains a high-performance culture
Sets clear, aggressive departmental goals, expectations, and standards for performance
Develops and institutionalizes world-class product engineering practices and policies
Continually improves team product knowledge and technical skills
Develops a departmental budget and manages expenses in line with organizational objectives; approves departmental expenditures including capital and manpower expenses
Works with HR to develops career paths for employees, provides coaching, recommends retention policies, and conducts salary planning for department staff
Collaborates with the Program Management Office project planning including scope definition, resource allocation, scheduling, and communication
Drives successful project execution working collaboratively with Program / project Managers; provides leadership to teams when faced with technical challenges, critical trade-off decisions, and other project obstacles
Reviews work output to ensure project objectives and quality standards are being achieved
Communicates departmental status and project reports to upper management as required
Ensures all policies and procedures comply with Medtronic quality system and ethical standards
Would be accountable to meet Organizational level Goals: OHS & Ethics
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS
Autonomy: Manages department (s) or small unit that includes multiple teams led by Senior Managers/ Managers. Provides motivational leadership for the area of responsibility. Provides thought and technical leadership. Performs work without appreciable direction.
Organizational Impact: Leads the development of the strategy for own department or business area, ensuring links to the company’s aims and objectives. Management authority to make large business decisions and strategic decisions. Decisions impact the financial performance, employees, or public image of the operational unit and/or company. Would have budget accountability for a department, broad functional area.
Innovation and Complexity: Drives innovation across the business area, encouraging best practice and knowledge sharing. Significantly improves, changes or adapts own department or business area’s processes, systems, products or services. Problems and issues faced are complex, difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.
Leadership and Talent Management: Directs and leads a department, broad functional area or geography, including one or more teams led by Senior Managers / managers. Determines supervisory relationships, and creates workforce and staffing plans to accomplish business results .
Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead multiple job areas, and detailed functional and operational expertise. Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function.
Business Communication : Requires ability to be articulate and able to efficiently communicate with senior leaderships
PRINCIPAL WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
The individual would work closely with other cross functional teams to ensure proper communication, resource management, and skill development across departments. Builds trusting relationships with Global R&D and MEIC leadership including regional and corporate organizations where needed; is the primary contact for the Engineering R&D function for the OU(s). He/ she would also be accountable for Relationship Management with all stakeholders internal at MEIC, Operating Unit, and regional leaders and also with external stakeholders (Academia/ KOLs/ Government /Innovation Hubs etc).
Minimum of 20+ years of applicable work experience in a Software Systems Product engineering and R&D role in a global team environment
Management experience in enhancing -leading Global Capability Centers in Engineering R&D. Prior experience in a large MNC preferred
Prior experience of minimum 3 years in managing Senior Engineering managers and being in a Strategic Leadership role with accountability of larger software, systems teams
Minimum of 8 years of hands-on software development critical experience in implementing large to medium complex software architectures (Cloud/Web/Mobile apps )
Proven experience in managing large, complex technology initiatives of strategic importance to the organization involving cross-functional teams.
Experience owning, supervising and delivering concurrent software releases using iterative/agile techniques, ensuring on-time delivery and good quality.
Prior experience working with cross –cultural teamwork experience is preferred
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL, AND ABILITY:
Demonstrated expertise in the field of product development and product engineering
Experience leading a product development project from concept to commercialization desirable
Proven track record identifying and executing complex engineering projects
Ability to build and lead a new department within a large, diverse MNC; includes strategic development and implementation
Ability to author policies, procedures and coach new employees
Experience in the areas of design for six sigma, Quality through design and Systems Engineering
Strong technical background with exposure to mechanical, electronics, and software engineering
Experience with hardware / software quality and reliability testing
Experience in Firmware development and must be comfortable with SW development practices and models
Demonstrated success executing complex engineering projects with diverse technical teams
Management of globally dispersed teams preferred
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, negotiating; managing change; goal setting; planning and organizing teamwork; ability to address difficult situations
Must possess managerial courage; must be confident managing risks and making decisions that will likely have a large impact on organizational objectives
Good financial acumen
Demonstrated experience managing a large, diverse technical department with budgetary responsibility
Must have leadership skills and personal strength to protect projects from unsubstantial change requests while ensuring project focus remains in place
Fluency in English
Eight Core Competencies: Intellectual Horsepower, Technical Ability, Team Building, Identifying and Developing Talent, Dealing with Ambiguity/Change, Manage Diverse Relationships, Organizational Ability, Comfort Around Higher Management
Up to 15 % travel
EDUCATION
Required
BS degree in engineering
MS degree in engineering
Preferred
MBA
Certification in Systems Engineering/ Six sigma practices/PMP is desired
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.
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.
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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.
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