Senior Product Development Project Management Specialist

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 23 Oct 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 Within our Research & Development organization in Peripheral Vascular Health, we focus on deploying project management methodologies and practices to ensure robust planning, monitoring/controlling and execution of new product development activities, continuous improvement initiatives and released product management. Our Project Management Specialists are directly involved in all stages of the project life cycle for our innovative devices and therapies. In this role, the individual will work on projects that are in various phases of product development. They will be working with internal project team members as well as suppliers and business partners to develop and sustain our product portfolio. This individual will be responsible for defining the scope, budget, and timeline of the project, along with managing project execution within a cross-functional team. This position requires broad cross-functional knowledge and comprehensive business management skills, providing direction and leadership to a cross-functional team including, but not limited to, members with expertise from the following disciplines: product development, clinical, regulatory affairs, quality, operations, supplier quality and product marketing. This role will sit in either Plymouth, MN or Galway, Ireland.                     Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned: • Lead or leverage cross functional teams to evaluate, develop and manage projects for new product development and ongoing lifecycle management of products, processes and therapies • Oversee and manage the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and management • Manage 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 • Review status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports • Monitor the project from initiation through delivery • Assess project issues and develop resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives • Develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving • Gather requirements, work on requirements planning, requirements elicitation and requirements management to ensure they meet demands of project's key stakeholders • Communicate with stakeholders, obtain stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems Required Knowledge and Experience: • Baccalaureate degree AND minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience • Experience with Microsoft Project 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 r