Medtronic is looking to solve business challenges in the healthcare industry by developing new features and expanding into new markets for their Hugo™ surgical robotics platform. The Principal Software Project Manager will lead cross-functional teams through the product development process to deliver novel solutions to patients and customers, ensuring customer satisfaction, design integrity, and quality.
Requirements
- Expert skills with Microsoft Project and critical chain analysis
- Expert skills with managing project plan, scope, schedule, budget, and risk register
- Agile Software Development certification, including SAFe
- Lean/Six Sigma Certification
- Expert skills in JIRA, JAMA, Polarion, PowerBI tools
- Experience leading diverse and complex projects and programs and coordinating multiple teams to execute concurrent, interdependent projects.
- Comprehensive knowledge of medical device standards and regulations (e.g., IEC 60601, IEC 62304, ISO 14971, ISO 13485).
Responsibilities
- Lead multifaceted cross-functional teams, encompassing Design, Development, Verification, Validation, Documentation. Guide them through the product journey, ensuring project success and aligning with business objectives.
- Develop and uphold project plans, schedules, risk registers, budgets, and resource allocation for designated projects.
- Manage project meetings, meticulously document meeting minutes and pivotal decisions, and diligently track action items.
- Integrate input early in process development and quality planning.
- Establish robust channels for both formal and informal communication, relaying accurate and current information to all stakeholders.
- Organize and guide a diverse array of distributed, cross-functional resources toward triumphant outcomes.
- Contribute to project prioritization decisions by offering data-driven insights and analysis derived from ongoing and previous projects.
Other
- Minimum of 7 years of project management experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years experience
- Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant scientific discipline
- Travel up to 10%, primarily in US.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and able to influence all customers (both internal and external) on issues that impact the business and its technical service and product strategies
- Exceptional influencing and interpersonal skills, negotiating; managing change; goal setting; planning and organizing teamwork; ability to address difficult situations; conflict resolution; resource constraint and problem solving.
