Senior Project Manager

Medtronic plc; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic plc in Minneapolis seeks a Sr. Project Manager to lead customer-facing healthcare implementations, coordinating internal and external stakeholders and applying the Integrated Solution Delivery Model to hardware and software deployments in acute care hospitals.

You will guide project scope, schedules, risk management, and go-live activities, while collaborating with cross-functional teams and ensuring compliance with corporate standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced education preferred.
• PMP or equivalent certification preferred.
• 5+ years of direct Healthcare IT or SaaS project management and implementation experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer IT and clinical workstreams with engineers and success managers.
• Coordinate cross-regional project teams and manage scope, schedules, and milestones.
• Ensure compliance with corporate and Medtronic standards.
• Deliver successful hardware and software deployments in acute care hospitals.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional influence

Executive communication

Healthcare IT

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PMP certification

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 20 Nov 2026

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

Leading customer-facing healthcare implementations, the Sr. Project Manager is accountable for coordinating internal and external stakeholders, applying the Integrated Solution Delivery Model, and delivering successful outcomes across hardware and software deployments in acute care hospitals.

The role combines project management, technical knowledge, business judgment, and customer engagement.

• Project delivery leadership: The role manages project scope, schedules, communications, documentation, workstreams, milestones, training, execution, and go-live activities while coordinating cross-regional teams and serving as the primary client liaison.
• Risk and issue control: Responsibilities include managing scope, cost, schedule, and measurable outcomes; identifying and resolving issues promptly; minimizing disruption; and escalating critical risks to leadership for timely intervention.
• Lifecycle and compliance improvement: The Sr. Project Manager oversees projects from intake through closure, follows Implementation Services practices, supports continuous improvement in service delivery, and ensures compliance with corporate, information technology, customer-specific, and Medtronic standards.
• Experience and capabilities: Candidates are expected to demonstrate leadership, executive-level communication, organizational discipline, cross-functional influence, strategic judgment, and the ability to oversee infrastructure deployment, cloud migration, security enhancements, system administration, virtualization, and secure networking. A bachelor's degree is required, advanced education is preferred, PMP or equivalent certification is preferred, and at least 5 years of direct Healthcare IT or SaaS project management and implementation experience is required.

The Sr. Project Manager serves as the primary point of accountability for both internal and external stakeholders across a range of customer-facing projects within Acute Care & Monitoring. This role is responsible for leading the application of the Integrated Solution Delivery Model to ensure successful healthcare implementation outcomes.

Drawing on a strong foundation in project management, technical expertise, and business acumen, the Sr. Project Manager will guide and influence cross-functional teams and healthcare stakeholders such as technical network infrastructure teams, clinical engineering, hospital operations and facility leaders. They will champion best practices, foster effective communication, and drive high levels of customer adoption and solution success.

This role requires a IT foundational skillset that will leverage your experience in the areas of device set up, configuration and deployment of both hardware and software-based products. Our customers are typically acute care hospitals, and the users of our medical devices are in patient care units. Our Digital Health products are both software and hardware-based technologies typically leveraging in place hospital infrastructure.

Throughout each implementation, the Sr. Project Manager will collaborate closely with internal clinical and technical leads, service engineers, leadership, and external clinical and technical partners to coordinate and execute all activities critical to project success.

Project Management Leadership and Accountability

Holds full accountability for the successful delivery of customer outcomes by applying best practices in project organization, stakeholder engagement, benefits realization, risk and issue management, planning and control, change management, and quality assurance.

Oversees the operational execution of assigned projects, acting as the primary liaison among external clients, internal project teams, sales, clinical product specialists, and line management.

Leads and coordinates one or more cross-regional project teams, ensuring alignment and progress across all workstreams.

Lead customer IT and clinical workstream meetings in partnership with our engineers and customer success managers as a subject matter expert with our suite of medical device and software offerings.

Serves as the main point of contact for external clients, managing project scope, scheduling and facilitating communications, coordinating clinical and technical requirements, and guiding the project through planning, training, execution, and go-live phases.

Provides strategic technical and analytical insights to leadership and gover