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. * Plans, performs and implements process improvement initiatives (such as Lean or Six Sigma). * Diagrams and evaluates existing processes. * Organizes, leads and facilitates cross\-functional project teams. * Develops metrics that provide data for process measurement, identifying indicators for future improvement opportunities. * Collects data to identify root cause of problems. * Measures performance against process requirements. * Aligns improvement to performance shortfalls. * Provides consultation on the use of re\-engineering techniques to improve process performance and product quality. * May deliver presentations and training courses including measurement, analysis, improvement and control. * Surveys and analyzes best practices for techniques and processes. * Communicates team progress. * Performs cost and benefit analyses. **PROGRAM MANAGEMENT CAREER STREAM:** Program Managers and Directors focus on tactical, operational activities for a major program with broad or ongoing impact. Levels within the program management career stream typically accomplish program objectives through matrixed employee teams and / or vendors who are not direct reports but for which the incumbent has direct accountability to lead. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, managing program/team performance, communicating project and operational developments, planning, prioritizing and / or directing the responsibilities of program team members. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of program team members. **DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS** **Autonomy:** Manages one or more medium\-scale, established programs with generally\-defined program plans and delivery methodologies. Is accountable for overall program process, performance, and customer satisfaction. **Organizational Impact:** Participates in establishing program objectives, timelines, milestones, and budgets . Develops new policies and procedures that affect program management. Typically has budget accountability for one or more programs. Program decisions are generally recommended to higher level management. **Innovation and Complexity:** Problems and issues faced are difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem. Problems typically impact multiple workstreams, departments or specialties . Enhances programs management processes to improve program. **Communication and Influence:** Communicates and leads meetings with internal and external customers and vendors, conducts briefings to higher level management team. Influences across functions and businesses while balancing divergent objectives to gain cooperation of other parties on program objectives and execution plans . **Leadership and Talent Management:** Leads, directs and reviews the work of a team of managers, experienced professionals and/or vendors who exercise latitude and independence in their assignments. Establishes daily tasks necessary for successful program execution. Not directly responsible for hire or fire decisions and people management. **Required Knowledge and Experience:** Requires broad management knowledge and experience to lead project teams in one department. Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function. Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214\.2(h)( 4\)(iii)(A) and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience. **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. This position is eligible for a short\-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). **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.