Senior IT Project Lead-T GOSC Manufacturing Systems Digitalization

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.

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

• 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.
• 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

SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Seasoned individual contributor.
Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions.
Coaches and reviews the work of lower level specialists; may manage projects / processes.

Organizational Impact: May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area.
Contributes to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas or specialties .
Makes improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area.
Analysis provided is in-depth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.

Communication and Influence: Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors.
Exchange information of facts, statuses, ideas and issues to achieve objective, and influence decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.
May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product .

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Ideally PMP Certified
• Knowledge/Experience in leading projects in validated environments
• 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
• Knowledge of manufacturing and manufacturing IT systems like 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. 

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.
 

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 90,000+ 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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