IT Program Manager - Healthcare Data Governance

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 17 Oct 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

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We're working onsite 4 days a week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. The person in this role will work from the Medtronic facility located in Mounds View, Minnesota.

The Healthcare Data Governance team is a highly visible, cross-functional team leading data strategy & governance for Healthcare & Patient data as part of the Master Data Management Services Organization. This role will have responsibility for managing the daily operations of the patient and healthcare data governance activities, including inventorying key data sets, working with stakeholders to leverage core capabilities, managing a roadmap of activities across multiple teams. The program manager will also manage and support the Rights to Data program and efforts, including working with stakeholders to understand business needs, creating a roadmap of capabilities, working cross delivery teams to bring capabilities to life.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive. Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute. We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communications to achieve long-term sustainable impact. Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world.

Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions – we’re a market leader and growing every day. You can be proud to be a part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation. You will be empowered to shape your own career. We encourage and support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Together, we can transform healthcare. Join us for a career in IT that changes lives. Medtronic is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture. Check out the accomplishments of our Women in IT group! http://bit.ly/MedtronicWomeninIT

Careers That Change Lives

Healthcare Data Governance

• Implement healthcare and patient data strategy enabling business objectives and priorities.
• Introduce and continually improve data governance standards, processes and capabilities including tokenization, de-identification, consent management, data rights, etc.
• Build roadmap to achieve the Healthcare & Patient Data Strategy, enhance efficiency, improve data quality and drive competitive advantage. 
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure all strategic data initiatives are captured within the strategic plan & roadmap. 
• Develop & estimate funding needs & sources for strategic initiatives.
• Drive prioritization across the project release schedules to enable business transformation priorities while enhancing data quality and enabling efficient operations.
• Collaborate closely with OUs to align data initiatives with business objectives, ensuring that business voice is heard as part of MDM solutions.
• Foster collaboration and alignment with cross-functional teams, including data platform teams, product team, and IDC team.
• Manage and enforce governance policies, standards and practices for healthcare and patient data.
• Advocate for data quality and best practices, ensuring adherence to data protection, privacy and health data regulations.
• Work closely with leadership to provide strategic guidance on data governance and compliance matters.
• Serve as a liaison between different business functions and IT teams to ensure alignment and integration of data governance practices.

Rights To Data

• Manage the implementation of the Rights to Data Policy Management solution. 
• Follow MSCM standards.
• Manage budget and vendor relations.
• Ensure business requirements are met.
• Work cross platform for successful implementations. 
•  Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
• Provides leadership for those involved in the development, design and optimization of one or more information technology and systems functions supporting company business processes and technical information systems platforms.

General Responsibilities

• analysis, selection and modification of enterprise systems, application software, installation of network hardware/software and database management.
• Provides direction for the effort required to protect the company's data, tools and information systems.
• Ensures infrastructure architecture standards maximize efficiency and support platform compatibility.
• Usually requires subject matter knowledge of user group for practical application of system characteristics.
• Coordinates delivery of services to user groups and ensures IT service is uninterrupted.
• Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
• Collaborate with Global IT leadership to define and execute transformational roadmaps, delivering on the strategy.
• Partner and leverage corporate assets across the digital landscape to rapidly stitch together holistic solutions.
• Ensure successful incubation models are transitioned effectively to delivery teams.
• Ensures infrastructure architecture standards maximize efficiency and support platform compatibility.
• Gather business requirements, business constraints, timelines, needs, and scope and work with architects to package up and present to product owners to prepare final recommended solutions and proposals for funding and execution.

MUST HAVE (Minimum Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 3+ years of experience with an advanced degree

NICE TO HAVE (Preferred Qualifications)

• 3+ years healthcare and digital health experience
• 3+ years’ experience as a business analyst writing requirements and user stories.
• 2+ years’ experience as a project/program leader
• Awareness of agile & software development methodologies
• Ability to listen, build rapport, and credibility as a strategic partner vertically within the business unit, as well as with leadership and functional teams.
• Ability to map joint organizational vision and long-term thinking, imagination, and idea generation.
• Energy, focus, assertiveness, and diplomacy.
• Knowing when to push an agenda and when to let a situation develop, rest, or advance.
• Highly developed communication skills.
• Ability to focus on business value results, rather than solutions.
• Technical aptitude, requirements management, and the ability to assess and articulate risk variables.

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):$132,800.00 - $199,200.00This 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, and Simple 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), and Capital 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.

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.

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic”) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.