IT PMO Lead - Manufacturing Digital Transformation

About the job

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

Medtronic

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose

As IT PMO Lead within GO&SC IT – Manufacturing Digital Transformation, you will lead with purpose, driving portfolio governance and delivery excellence for strategic technology programs that make a meaningful impact.

Partnering with the Senior Director for Manufacturing Digital Transformation, you will provide end-to-end visibility and control across programs, enabling leaders to make confident decisions that support our mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.

You will drive financial discipline, proactive risk management, and delivery predictability through standardized governance and continuous improvement.

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of:

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

As the IT PMO Lead, you will connect strategy to execution, ensuring the Manufacturing Digital Transformation portfolio aligns with business priorities and that strategic commitments are delivered predictably.

You will maintain comprehensive visibility of portfolio health, milestones, budgets, dependencies, and deliverables, identify performance gaps early, and drive corrective actions, providing leadership with clear insights to support informed decisions and timely action.

Working with senior leadership, Enterprise Architecture, Delivery Leaders, and external service providers, you will strengthen governance, coach project teams, and embed delivery best practices across global teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Portfolio Governance & Delivery Excellence: Establish and enforce consistent project management standards, governance frameworks, delivery methodologies, and performance controls to drive accountability and predictable execution.

• Strategic Portfolio & Program Oversight: Maintain comprehensive visibility of portfolio health, milestones, budgets, dependencies, and deliverables. Identify performance gaps early and drive corrective actions to protect strategic commitments.

• Resource & Capacity Optimization: Lead portfolio-wide resource and capacity planning, balancing demand, priorities, and available capabilities to eliminate bottlenecks and maximize delivery efficiency.

• Financial Performance & Risk Management: Drive financial discipline through budget oversight, forecasting, accrual management, and variance analysis. Maintain proactive risk, issue, action, and dependency (RAID) management with clear mitigation plans and ownership.

• Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Team Leadership: Partner with senior leadership, Enterprise Architecture, and Delivery Leaders to align priorities, strengthen governance, coach project teams, and embed delivery best practices.

• Escalation & Issue Resolution: Own the structured, tiered escalation framework, ensuring critical issues are rapidly identified, escalated, assigned, and resolved with clear accountability and timely leadership intervention.

• Executive Reporting & Performance Insights: Own the development and delivery of high-impact daily, weekly, and monthly portfolio dashboards, executive reports, and steering committee presentations, translating complex delivery data into actionable insights and decisions.

Key Skills & Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 8 to 10+ years of IT project, program, or portfolio management experience.

• 3 to 5+ years in PMO leadership, portfolio governance, or enterprise program oversight.

• Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-project IT portfolios across global teams.

• Strong financial management, resource planning, and executive reporting experience.

• Experience working with senior IT leaders, technology delivery teams, and external service providers.

Technical Skills & Required Capabilities (Essential):

• Portfolio & Program Management: Manage complex IT portfolios, integrated plans, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and KPIs.

• Project Management Tools: Advanced proficiency in MS Project, Planisware, Jira, Azure DevOps, and Microsoft 365.

• Financial Management: Budgeting, forecasting, accruals, variance analysis, CAPEX/OPEX tracking, and financial reporting.

• Executive Reporting & Analytics: Advanced Excel, Power BI, dashboards, portfolio scorecards, and executive presentations.

• Resource & Capacity Planning: Demand forecasting, resource allocation, capacity modelling, and utilization management.

• Risk & Issue Management: RAID management, risk scoring, mitigation planning, dependency tracking, and escalation management.

• Governance & Compliance: Stage gates, project controls, change management, audit readiness, and portfolio governance.

Methodologies, Skills & Frameworks (Essential):

• PMI / PMBOK: Structured project management, governance, planning, execution, monitoring, and control.

• Waterfall & Agile: Manage traditional and iterative delivery approaches across diverse IT programs.

• Hybrid Project Management: Integrate Agile and Waterfall practices across enterprise technology programs.

• Portfolio Management (PfMP Principles): Prioritization, strategic alignment, capacity planning, and portfolio optimization.

• RAID Framework: Structured management of risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.

• RACI Framework: Establish clear roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and accountability.

• Stage-Gate Governance: Apply standardized approval checkpoints, deliverable reviews, and investment controls.

• Critical Path Method (CPM): Identify schedule dependencies, critical activities, and delivery risks.

• SAFe / Scrum / Kanban: Understand Agile delivery, planning cadences, backlogs, and cross-team coordination.

• Organizational Change Management: Support stakeholder readiness, communications, adoption, and business transition.

Soft Skills & Leadership (Essential):

• Executive Communication: Deliver concise, fact-based updates and translate complex information into actionable leadership decisions.

• Leadership & Influence: Drive accountability, coach project managers, and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.

• Proactive Problem Solving: Anticipate delivery challenges, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions before milestones are impacted.

• Situational Awareness: Maintain a comprehensive understanding of portfolio health, emerging risks, competing priorities, and critical dependencies.

• Decision-Making & Judgment: Make timely, data-driven recommendations and confidently escalate issues requiring leadership intervention.

• Stakeholder Management: Build trusted relationships with senior executives, business leaders, technology teams, and external partners.

• Accountability & Ownership: Demonstrate urgency, follow-through, attention to detail, and personal ownership of commitments.

• Strategic Thinking: Connect project execution to business priorities, portfolio value, and long-term strategic objectives.

• Conflict Resolution & Negotiation: Resolve competing priorities, resource constraints, delivery disputes, and stakeholder disagreements.

• Adaptability & Resilience: Operate effectively in complex, fast-changing environments while maintaining delivery discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within manufacturing, medical devices, or another regulated industry.