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** As the leading company in the biomedical sector, Medtronic fosters open innovation to improve the quality of products and services we offer to our customers. Within the open innovation paradigm, we collaborate with all the stakeholders of the ecosystem including regional/national/European authorities, hospitals, start-up´s, universities, research centers and other companies. INNOVA is the Medtronic team devoted to facilitating open innovation across the company. Our department is part of Integrated Health Solutions, the Medtronic entity dealing with everything that goes beyond the device, from process improvement to Digital Health. As an Innovation Project Manager within Medtronic’s INNOVA team, you will lead and support European healthcare innovation projects, managing operations, finances, and proposal development. You'll collaborate across teams to align initiatives with strategic goals, identify market opportunities, and drive innovations toward real-world impact. This is a remote/hybrid role but based in Spain. The role with a willingness to travel to clients and Medtronic locations (15-20%) within the Europe. **Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:** + **Coordination of European Healthcare Innovation Projects:** Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of tasks, meetings, deliverables, and results within European projects + **Financial Management:** Oversee the financial aspects of projects, ensuring compliance with economic requirements and alignment with Medtronic’s standards + **Reporting and Documentation:** Prepare detailed reports for the European Commission, summarizing technical and financial results, dissemination activities, event outcomes, and project impact + **Internal Collaboration & Innovation Engagement:** Work across Medtronic departments such as Finance, Legal, Communication, General Management, and Operating Units and its innovation ecosystem to address project needs and identify challenges that drive portfolio-enhancing solutions + **Scouting Strategy:** Participate in discovering, evaluating, showcasing, and collaborating with promising companies in the European healthcare start-up ecosystem + **Business Opportunity Identification:** Detect and evaluate innovation-based business opportunities that align with Medtronic’s strategic objectives + **Proposal Development:** Identify new opportunities and lead the preparation of proposals aligned with the department’s and company’s strategic innovation priorities + **Stakeholder & Team Collaboration:** Represent the team to internal and external stakeholders while working closely with diverse local and European teams to ensure effective communication and project success. Having a relevant professional network in the EU projects space **Required Knowledge and Experience:** + Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Biomedicine, Biomedical or Telecommunications Engineering, Economics, or a related field; Master’s degree in business or project management is a plus + Project Experience: Proven experience managing European healthcare innovation projects, preferably within hospital or healthcare settings (H2020, Horizon Europe, IHI, EIT Health, etc.) + Cross-Functional Collaboration: Skilled in working across departments and with diverse stakeholders in complex, fast-paced environments + Organizational & Execution Skills: Strong self-management, organizational abilities, and a results-driven mindset focused on high-quality delivery + Communication & Interpersonal Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, + Innovation & Agile Thinking: Demonstrated innovative mindset, familiarity with agile methodologies, and use of project management tools + Language Proficiency: Fluent in English (C1 level or higher); additional European languages are an asset Medtronic is committed to safeguarding the principle of non-discrimination in employment on the basis of sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, as set out in Article 14 of the Constitution and Articles 17 and 18 of the Workers' Statute, as well as Organic Law 3/2007 of 22 March on effective equality between women and men and Law 4/2023 for the real and effective equality of transgender people and the protection of LGTBI rights. This commitment applies to all company personnel without exception. This is done with the understanding and conviction that equal treatment and opportunities in the workplace must be guaranteed, ultimately ensuring an inclusive working environment that advances the eradication of discrimination against LGTBI people and the absence of any direct or indirect discrimination on the grounds of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and those derived from maternity, family obligations and marital status. **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. **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 (http://www.medtronic.com) 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. **We change lives** . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives. **We build extraordinary solutions as one team** . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough. **This life-changing career is yours to engineer** . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will… + **Build** a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world + **Grow** a career reflective of your passion and abilities + **Connect** to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning These commitments set our team apart from the rest: **Experiences that put people first** . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need. **Life-transforming technologies** . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms. **Better outcomes for our world** . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls. **Insight-driven care** . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care 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. For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support. 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