IT Project Lead SSC

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

In this exciting role as an IT Project Lead, you will be responsible for leading IT projects that support the Medical Surgical Operating Unit, including the Acute Care and Monitoring, Endoscopy, and Surgical Operating Units. This division of our organization boasts an impressive annual revenue of $8B+ and serves over 115 million patients globally. Within this capacity, you will manage projects as part of a portfolio valued at approximately $15 million annually, ensuring the successful delivery of high-impact initiatives.

Medical Surgical IT Vision

We accelerate digital health innovation, advance Hyper Automation, strengthen core IT services, and establish ourselves as trusted IT partners for Medical Surgical stakeholders. We will continue to leverage deep business knowledge, strong stakeholder relationships, unified Medical Surgical approach and Global IT teams to achieve this vision.

Medical Surgical IT Purpose

Drive innovation and deliver strategic goals in partnership with OU stakeholders by leveraging technology, data platforms and operating model to deliver value for our employees, patients and customers.

Top talent should consider this opportunity for the chance to lead transformative projects in a supportive and dynamic environment, where innovation meets impact. If you are passionate about technology and leadership, we invite you to apply and be a part of our success story. This will be a remote position in Colombia.

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

• Lead and direct one or more project teams engaged in global initiatives across functional and regional organizations
• Develop and manage all facets of the project(s) from intake through implementation and closure
• Accountable for the successful implementation of the outcomes derived through the change through effective organization and leadership, business case and benefits management, stakeholder management, risk management and issue resolution, planning and control, change management and quality management
• Ensure the project adhere to all Corporate and IT policies and standards
• Responsible for effectively managing the constraints of project management: Scope, Cost, Schedule
• Provide technical and analytical guidance and recommendations to leadership governance bodies
• Keep current on advance and best practices in project management methodologies
  
  
  

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Fluent in English
• Two years of experience in project and program management with IT
• Knowledge working with MS Office
• Experience working with efficiency improvement processes
• Ability to work in matrix structured organization
• Knowledge using Planisware and Project Management Skill and Lean Six Sigma is advantageous
  
  
  

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.

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 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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here