R&D Program Director - TAVR Accessories Core Team Leader
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Remote type: Hybrid
Locations: Galway, County Galway, Ireland
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted 2 Days Ago
Time left to apply: End Date: April 23, 2025 (10 days left to apply)
Job requisition id: R26773
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
Our purpose within the Structural Heart & Aortic (SH&A) Research & Development (R&D) is to develop and commercialize life improving technologies.
A Day in The Life Of:
The TAVR Accessories Core Team Leader (CTL) is a member of the Structural Heart TAVR & Congenital (T&C) R&D leadership team. This leader is responsible for all phases of new product development from early definition through development, manufacturing, and global commercialization.
There are 3 critical areas required to ensure success in this role:
Strategy: Responsible for the TAVR accessories franchise building a roadmap of key innovation cadence across wires, sheaths, and other procedural accessories that will drive therapy adoption and increased market share.
Program Leadership: Ability to lead complex multi-functional program and team, with strong interpersonal skills and understanding of the product development process. Track record of creating a vision and executable plan then driving the team to program completion.
Talent Development: Ability to build a high performing team, develop core team members, and extended teams with high organizational impact. Mentors and coaches the core team to achieve success.
Key Skills & Experience
* Accountable for overall program execution.
* Responsible to drive cross-functional core team and work directly with functional leaders, regional leaders, and extended teams to ensure clear communication of program objectives, deliverables, and timing of key milestones.
* Develops a portfolio strategy centered around procedural accessories to support the Evolut product line, which may include a series of product launches and parallel project activities.
* Proactively resolves cross-functional conflict.
* Manages daily execution of project/programs including critical path tasks, budgets, resources, and risk.
* Effective use of project schedules and work breakdown to manage project critical path activities.
* Understands applicable product standards and procedures and navigates the matrix to provide the required regulatory deliverables.
* Maintains effective communication with the business leadership team on overall program and TAVR accessories portfolio strategy and approach.
* Delivers results with uncompromising quality, integrity, and ethics.
* Regular communication with T&C R&D leadership team and Structural Heart leadership team through regular program updates and product review committee discussions.
* Represent the TAVR accessories portfolio in frequent interactions with Key Opinion Leaders in the field, during scientific congresses and clinical investigator meetings.
* Drives financials for program including representation of program financial assumptions at Portfolio Strategy Board, Product Review Committee, Annual Operating Plan, and all financial forecasting.
* Travel approximately 25%.
Required Knowledge & Experience:
* Bachelor’s degree in engineering or scientific field.
* Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in project management, or an advanced degree with minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with 7+ years managerial experience.
Desired & Preferred Qualifications:
* Experience with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) new product development as core team member or core team leader.
* R&D, quality, or operations experience with transcatheter technologies.
* Familiarity with procedure development and catheter design/development.
* Familiarity with key opinion leaders in the interventional cardiology community.
Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package.
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). This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.
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 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.
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