Sr Project Manager APAC

SGP Singapore Distribution; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic in Singapore seeks a Senior PMO Manager, APAC, to lead regional transformation programmes, oversee separation and transition activities, support new product launch readiness, and establish governance across multiple countries. Initially arising as an individual contributor, the role will help build PMO capabilities for future regional growth.

Travel across APAC is expected to support programme delivery, stakeholder engagement, and country-level implementation, partnering with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years in project/PMO leadership or related fields.
• Proven experience managing complex regional/global programmes across multiple countries.
• Experience with governance, risk, change management, and executive reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional programmes and oversee critical transformation initiatives.
• Coordinate governance, risk management, and reporting across APAC countries.
• Drive business separations, carve-outs, and new product launch readiness.
• Travel across APAC as required to support programme delivery and stakeholder engagement.
• Develop PMO capabilities and mentor project teams as the function evolves.

Skills

Project management

PMO leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Governance

Risk management

Change management

Executive reporting

APAC travel

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Governance tools

PMO software

Job description

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

This role sits within the APAC Business Process PMO function, supporting critical initiatives that enable business continuity, operational readiness, and long-term growth across the region. The function leads complex cross-functional programmes including business separations, carve-outs, operating model transformations, and new product launch readiness, partnering closely with Commercial, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Supply Chain, Information Technology, Finance, Legal, and country leadership teams. This position is an exciting opportunity to work with the Diabetes business. Medtronic announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and to reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic. The Diabetes division, now known as MiniMed, completed its IPO in March 2026. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investment to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care. While you will start your employment with Medtronic, upon completion of required local legal and employment processes, we expect your employment to transfer to MiniMed, subject to business needs and any applicable information and consultation requirements in your jurisdiction. Based in Singapore, this position follows a Flex work model, combining in-office and remote work in alignment with business and team needs. Regional travel across APAC is required to support programme execution, stakeholder engagement, and country-level implementation activities.

Primary Responsibilities

The Senior PMO Manager, APAC serves as the regional project management lead for strategic transformation programmes across the Asia Pacific region. The role is accountable for driving complex separation and transition activities, supporting new product launch programmes, establishing governance frameworks, and coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver key business priorities. Initially operating as an individual contributor, the position will influence stakeholders across multiple countries while helping to build PMO capabilities for future regional growth.

• Leads or leverages cross functional teams to evaluate, develop and manage projects for key business processes.
• Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
• Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
• Monitors the project from initiation through delivery.
• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of experience in project management, programme management, PMO leadership, business transformation, or related business operations disciplines.
• 10+ years of experience leading complex regional or global programmes involving multiple countries, functions, and stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated experience leading business separation, carve-out, integration, startup, or organisational transformation initiatives.
• Experience establishing and managing project governance, risk management, change management, and executive reporting processes.
• Ability to travel throughout APAC as required to support programme delivery and stakeholder engagement.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of people management, team leadership, or project team leadership experience.
• Experience within the medical device, healthcare, pharmaceutical, or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience establishing new business operations, distribution networks, market-entry programmes, or commercial launch initiatives.
• Knowledge of APAC market dynamics and experience working across diverse cultural and business environments.

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). 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. We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives. We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough. This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will… Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning These commitments set our team apart from the rest: Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need. Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls. Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare settingis considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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