Principal Project Management Specialist

June 20, 2025

Job Description

Principal Project Management Specialist massive-scale, drift-useful tasks in Medtronic’s product development region. You’ll oversee duties from inception thru release, ensuring product first-rate, regulatory compliance, and properly timed transport.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

  • Project Leadership: Drive new product development and lifecycle management via pass-practical businesses (R&D, Quality, Ops, Regulatory)
  • Planning & Tracking: Build centered mission plans, control schedules, budgets, assets, and music progress 
  • Risk & Issue Management: Identify dangers, create mitigation strategies, and solve problems to fulfill quality and productiveness desires
  • Stakeholder Communication: Provide regular reputation updates, facilitate choice-making, and maintain leadership engaged .
  • Regulatory Adherence: Ensure compliance with layout controls and medical tool standards (e.G., IEC, ISO)
  • Mentorship: Coach and manual junior body of employees and in all likelihood lead crew tasks 

🎓 Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced diploma preferred.
  • Typically 7–10+ years managing complicated, regulated product improvement tasks—or five+ years with superior diploma.
  • PMP certification and familiarity with Lean/Six Sigma are a plus.
  • Experience with scientific tool products—particularly in cardiac or surgical tech—is beneficial. 
  • Proficient in task tools like Microsoft Project or ProChain.

💼 Why It Matters

Medtronic’s task is to relieve ache, restore health, and enlarge lifestyles. This function ensures that existence-changing medical gadgets are evolved efficaciously, appropriately, and in compliance with worldwide necessities—proper now impacting affected person results.