Sr Program Manager, Career & Enterprise Development in London

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on 5 Mar 2026. 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.

The Program Director, Career & Enterprise Development is a leader within the Global Learning and Leadership Development Center of Excellence (CoE). This role stewards the Career & Enterprise Development Portfolio — setting strategic direction, guiding priorities, learning objectives, and ensuring measurable business impact. Partnering with senior business leaders, HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, Diversity & Inclusion function, and Talent Management, the Program Director ensures programs are fully integrated into the talent lifecycle and aligned to enterprise strategy. In addition, this leader drives governance, budget stewardship, and innovation to scale Career & Enterprise Development.

We have a preference for this individual to work from one of our Medtronic locations; remote may be considered.

• Own and manage the Career & Enterprise Development portfolio, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, leadership development, business and talent priorities.
• Operate within a governance framework to strategically consult, intake requests, prioritise initiatives, and allocate resources based on strategic business & talent priorities.
• Manage governance boards and portfolio reviews, ensuring accountability, transparency, and compliance.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to Business Leaders, HRBPs, and Talent Management on Enterprise Learning.
• Define and oversee evaluation frameworks to measure adoption, promotion, retention, readiness, and business impact.
• Track and report on program outcomes, leveraging data to demonstrate measurable business value and continuous improvement.
• Own program budgets, forecast needs, and align spend with strategic and enterprise goals.
• Balance global resources and capacity across portfolios to ensure scalable delivery.
• Integrate new AI technologies, modalities, and approaches to enhance leadership development programs.
• Stay ahead of global trends in Learning & Development, Enterprise Learning and talent development, technology, including AI application, and applying insights to programs.
• Foster diversity, equity, and inclusion across all initiatives, ensuring programs are representative and globally relevant.
• Partner with external vendors, universities, and thought leaders to bring cutting-edge practices into the portfolio.

Qualifications

Must Have:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in leadership development, Enterprise Learning development, or related field.
• Proven expertise in designing and delivering leadership or development programs for enterprise audiences.

Nice to Have:

• Master’s degree in Organizational Development, Education, Business, or related field preferred (5+ years required with advanced degree).
• Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing and advising senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage high-performing teams of program managers.
• Experience working with external partners, vendors, or business schools to deliver Enterprise Learning solutions.
• Strong understanding of measurement and evaluation frameworks for leadership development programs.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills; able to interact credibly with senior leaders and executives.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on program management and delivery.
• Global perspective and experience designing programs that resonate across cultures and geographies.

Core Competencies

• Strategic Consultation & Influence: Experience partnering with clients/partners to develop strategic solutions to team, talent, and culture problems to solve. Experience coaching and influencing without direct authority to guide leaders or partners to a solution.
• HR Acumen: Understanding of the interconnectedness of the HR ecosystem and strategies and an understanding of how ID&E, talent, learning, and development initiatives can advance HR and business strategies.
• Communication: Ability to build internal and external partnerships. Ability to drive awareness or change with a diverse audience, through various communication vehicles.
• Strategic Leadership: Shapes the Enterprise Learning development portfolio to advance enterprise leadership priorities.
• Stakeholder Consulting: Serves as a trusted advisor to senior staff and HR leaders on leadership development needs.
• Program Excellence: Designs and delivers high-quality, high-impact Enterprise Learning programs.
• People Leadership: Builds, develops, and empowers teams of program managers.
• Innovation: Champions new approaches, modalities, and technologies in Enterprise Learning & Development.
• Measurement & Impact: Ensures program outcomes are tracked, evaluated, and tied to business results.
• Collaboration: Works effectively across functions, geographies, and governance structures.
• Business Acumen: Connects leadership development to enterprise strategy and measurable outcomes.

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 recognise 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): $144,000.00 - $216,000.00. Pay range for Germany: 106,400.00 EUR - 159,600.00 EUR; Ireland: 99,600.00 EUR - 149,400.00 EUR; Netherlands: 106,480.00 EUR - 159,720.00 EUR; United Kingdom: 82,400.00 GBP - 123,600.00 GBP. This 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.

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.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, colour, 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.