Senior Early Career Program Specialist at Medtronic in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Job Description:

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

This position is primarily responsible for managing the operations of Early Career rotation programs, with broad support of the overall early career experience COE. In partnership with Early Career Program Managers and Program Specialists.

This position will work remote within the US.

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

• Recognized Rotation Program Specialist for the Medtronic Early Career Rotation Programming managing large projects. Including program design recommendations, budgeting, recommendations in partnership with Program Manager.


• Represents Early Career for specific projects and initiatives across functional areas


• Communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels.


• Works independently with limited oversight from manager, sets objectives for own job area to meet objectives of project and assignments


• Is the program specialist expert in operations such as SOW creation, PO requests, Metrics, Workday and other systems


• Takes initiative to learn new technology that increase productivity across the team


• Identifies and implementation opportunities to align business procedures with information technology


• Monitors talent hires, moves and terminations


• Maintains master spreadsheets for all programs


• Schedules meetings and events across all programs


• Designs, develops, and maintains process and technical documentation


• Maintains online program documentation & reviews and edits as needed


• Manages program communications


• Leads and manages systems of rotation programming and key stakeholder relationships including some cross-functional work


• Analyzes VOC and provides in-depth analysis of data and recommendations based on key learnings.


• Assist with program alumni networking efforts along with committee members.


• Leads talent request process and communication plan, in partnership with program manager


• Participate and internship programming efforts, offers and placement into program.


• Manage rotational program mentoring programs.


• Collaborate with program participants to create and manage quarterly newsletters.


• Manages incoming program questions and problems solves for program participants and managers

Must Have: Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with 4+ years of HR experience, or, an advanced degree with 2+ years' experience

Nice to Have:

• Prior Medtronic experience


• Project Management Experience


• Experience working effectively in a matrix environment


• High attention to detail and sense of urgency


• Strong customer, business, and results orientation


• Flexible and adaptable


• Solid HR system knowledge preferred - Workday, Workforce Analytics, Microsoft Teams, Abode

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):$83,200.00 - $124,800.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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 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 .

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

At Medtronic, most positions are posted on our career site for 3-7 days.