Sr BP Program Manager (AO)

Sr BP Program Manager (AO)

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 21 Oct 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

A Day in the Life

The Senior Program Manager is responsible for leading a portfolio of complex, cross-functional capacity expansion and manufacturing transformation initiatives. This role serves as the primary program leadership interface between Operations, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and Business Unit stakeholders to ensure successful execution of strategic capital investments, capacity expansion programs, technology transfers, and manufacturing improvement and readiness activities.

The successful candidate will drive large and small scale programs from concept through commercialization, ensuring alignment to business growth strategies, operational excellence objectives, and financial commitments while mitigating risks to supply continuity and product availability. If you’re motivated by complex challenges, energized by innovation, and passionate about making a meaningful impact, this is your opportunity to help shape the next generation of life changing medical technology.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working 5 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

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

• Lead cross-functional teams in the planning and execution of strategic capacity expansion, capital investment, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, resource forecasts, capital budgets, financial tracking, risk registers, and executive-level program status reporting.
• Drive end-to-end program execution from concept development and business case approval through equipment qualification, process validation, production readiness, and operational handoff.
• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Identify, assess, and proactively mitigate project risks, supply continuity concerns, resource constraints, and execution barriers that could impact timelines, financial performance, or manufacturing readiness.

Required Qualifications

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience
• OR an advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, Supply Chain, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of program management, portfolio management, operations, engineering, manufacturing, or related experience
• Experience building strategic roadmaps.
• Experience influencing stakeholders across functions and organizational levels.
• Experience with change management, coaching, and mentoring.
• Experience managing projects, including time management, client relationship management, conflict resolution, training facilitation, and administrative responsibilities.
• Experience establishing Voice of Operations (VOO) and/or Voice of Customer (VOC) requirements within the Product Development Process (PDP).
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
• PMP certification or equivalent project/program management certification.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.