We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 21 Nov 2025
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
Project Scheduling Planner – Medtronic Diabetes
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.
About Medtronic Diabetes
Our Diabetes Operating Unit is committed to transforming care for people living with diabetes worldwide. We develop advanced technologies such as insulin pumps, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems, and digital health solutions to help patients achieve better outcomes and live healthier lives. Every project you support will directly impact millions of people managing diabetes every day.
Join Medtronic’s Diabetes Operating Unit as a Project Scheduling Planner in our Product Innovation Group. In this critical role, you’ll support program and project management activities for diabetes products, collaborating across multiple groups. You’llsupport the planning of new development projects and help ensure teams are well-coordinated aligned to the project deliverables.
This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.
Develop, build, and maintain Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), integrating multiple sub-project schedules using Critical Path Method (CPM) or other scheduling methodologies to ensure accurate planning and execution.
Perform advanced schedule analysis, including critical path identification, float analysis, resource constraints, and bottleneck detection to improve predictability and delivery performance.
Support project planning/scheduling aspects of ongoing projects, serving as liaison between project management, planning teams, and line management.
Preferred Qualifications
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Word).
Project management or commercial product delivery experience.
Familiarity with advanced scheduling management tools (Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, etc.).
Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a matrixed organization.
Strong communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
Experience working under FDA or other regulatory requirements.
Experience building and managing Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), integrating multiple schedules, and developing master sub-project schedules using CPM or similar techniques.
Familiarity with agile project management and/or SAFe Agile Project Management.
Experience supporting teams in the development or commercialization of complex medical devices (e.g., insulin pumps, CGM systems, or digital health platforms).
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.
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
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.
Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$84,800.00 - $127,200.00This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance,Health Savings Account,Healthcare Flexible Spending Account,Life insurance, Long-term disability leave,Dependent daycare spending account,Tuition assistance/reimbursement, andSimple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match,Short-term disability,Paid time off,Paid holidays,Employee Stock Purchase Plan,Employee Assistance Program,Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
Further details are available at the link below:
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans
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.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.
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