Director, Project Management Office

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**:The Director, PMO & Process Improvement COE will be responsible for executing the RLM LatAm 3-year Strategic Plan. This role will champion operational excellence, oversee cross-functional strategic initiatives, and ensure the highest standards of process discipline, governance, and results delivery.

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

**PMO Leadership**:

- Develop and oversee the PMO framework to ensure flawless execution of the RLM LatAm 3-Year Strategic Plan.
- Standardize project management methodologies, tools, and reporting mechanisms.
- Manage a portfolio of strategic projects, monitoring progress, mitigating risks, resolving issues, and ensuring alignment with corporate priorities.
- Establish governance routines, executive dashboards, and performance reporting to maintain leadership visibility and control.

**Process Improvement Leadership**:

- Build and lead a best-in-class Process Improvement COE to drive Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement initiatives across the region.
- Evaluate and re-engineer key business processes to improve operational efficiency, quality, and financial outcomes.
- Establish metrics and KPIs to measure process performance, improvement impacts, and cultural adoption of excellence principles
- Lead root cause analyses, facilitate cross-functional improvement projects, and embed a high-performance culture.

**Strategic Alignment & Execution**:

- Serve as a strategic partner to Executive Leadership, ensuring operational initiatives and transformation projects directly drive enterprise strategy.
- Ensure cross-functional coordination, prioritization, and resource optimization across strategic initiatives.

**Talent Development and Leadership**:

- Build, develop, and inspire high-performing teams of project managers, process improvement experts, and change leaders.
- Develop succession pipelines and talent strategies aligned to business needs and future capabilities.

**Innovation, Communication, and Change Management**:

- Champion a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and customer-centricity.
- Serve as the principal spokesperson for the PMO & Process Improvement COE to executive leadership.
- Lead organizational change management efforts to ensure smooth adoption of new processes, systems, and ways of working.

**PEOPLE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONAL CAREER STREAM**:Management and supervisory professionals with one or more employees who are focused on tactical, operational and some strategic activities within a specified area. Levels within the management career stream typically have six or more direct reports. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, managing performance, developing talent, engagement and inclusion, communicating business and operational developments, planning, prioritizing and / or directing the responsibilities of direct reports. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and / or indirect reports. A key responsibility of roles in this career stream is managing people. which includes: accountability for mentoring, developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives, providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives to include defining performance goals and targets, conducting performance reviews, and staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals.

**DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS**

**Autonomy**:Manages department (s) or small unit that includes multiple teams led by managers and / or supervisors.
Provides motivational leadership for the area managed.
Provides thought and technical leadership.
Performs work without appreciable direction.

**Organizational Impact**:Leads the development of the strategy for own department or business area, ensuring links to the company’s aims and objectives.
Management authority to make large business decisions and some strategic decisions.
Decisions impact the financial performance, employees, or public image of the operational unit and/or company.
Typically has budget or P&L accountability for a department, broad functional area or geography.

**Innovation and Complexity**:Drives innovation across the business area, encouraging best practice and knowledge sharing.
Significantly improves, changes or adapts own department or business area’s processes, systems, products or services.
Problems and issues faced are complex, difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.

**Communication and Influence**:Develops long term