Service Activation PMO Lead, Integrated Health Solution

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.

Integrated Health Solutions (IHS) team members are seasoned professionals with in-depth knowledge of the healthcare value chain, as well as breadth of experience across multiple disciplines. They are able to partner with hospital management teams to drive complex transformational change, implement innovative growth strategies, streamline patient-focused care pathways and run and optimize operations.

We are looking for an experienced Project Management Office (PMO) Leader who will be responsible for establishing and managing the PMO for complex, high value programmes across IHS EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) managed service implementations. In this role you will lead a newly established service activation team, working closely with wider operational and commercial functions to embed optimised processes and methodologies to deliver best in class activations through efficient planning, reporting and communication. This is a remote role with a willingness to travel within the EMEA perspective (approximately 30% total).

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

• Lead the ongoing design and set-up IHS Service Activation ensuring alignment with OneIHS methodologies, processes and client-specific requirements.
• Manage and continuously improve the PMO, ensuring that IHS has the project management capability to deliver large complex projects across EMEA.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the project management team, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.
• Ensure that all IHS projects meet the required scope, project timelines, and budgetary requirements.
• Oversee the selection, prioritisation, and management of the project portfolio, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy and goals.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to evaluate and prioritize projects based on business impact, resource availability, and risk.
• Provide consolidated performance reports and analysis, including task status, milestones, financials, and risks.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Several years of experience in NHS (National Health Service) facing project management with at least a few years in a PMO leadership role with a focus on supply chain operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in project management, supply chain management, healthcare management, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).
• Proven success in leading large-scale, complex projects and programmes on time and within budget.
• PMP (Project Management Professional), PRINCE2 (Projects IN Controlled Environments), or similar project management certification and proficiency in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Planisware) and methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid).
• Ability to lead and motivate teams, fostering a collaborative and high performing working environment.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment, able to adapt project management approaches to different project types and requirements, and ability to manage competing priorities.
• Fluency in English required; other languages preferred (Dutch, Danish, French, German).

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).

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 90,000+ 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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.