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The Director, LUNA Robotic Catheter Assembly & Accessories serves as the senior program leader within a functional organization responsible for delivering a mission critical subsystem for the LUNA robotic platform. This Director leads the planning, execution, and integration of the Robotic Catheter Assembly, Camera Tool & Accessories program, operating as the subsystem owner and primary decision driver within the function.
While this role does not have direct people-management responsibilities, it provides program leadership, technical direction, and cross-functional coordination to ensure the catheter subsystem meets all system level performance, safety, regulatory, quality, and business objectives. The Director drives work through a matrixed team, influencing engineers, technical leads, and partner functions without formal supervisory authority.
Key Responsibilities
Subsystem & Program Ownership
Owns the end‑to‑end strategy, definition, and delivery of the LUNA Robotic Catheter Assembly, Camera Tool & Accessories within the functional organization.
Leads subsystem architecture decisions, requirements flow-down, and interface definitions to ensure seamless integration with the LUNA robotic platform.
Establishes program plans, schedules, deliverables, risk assessments, and resource alignment for the subsystem.
Ensures subsystem execution aligns with platform milestones, system architecture, design freezes, and verification/validation timelines.
Functional Program Leadership
Acts as the primary program leader within the function, providing direction to engineering teams, technical leads, and cross-functional partners assigned to the catheter subsystem.
Drives day‑to‑day execution of development activities, ensuring clarity of priorities, alignment to plan, and timely issue resolution.
Leads technical and execution forums within the function to maintain progress, escalate risks, and align on technical decisions.
Ensures the function’s work products meet program expectations, quality standards, and system requirements.
Cross‑Functional Leadership & Influence
Collaborates and influences Systems Engineering, Robotics & Controls, Navigation & Visualization, Human Factors, Manufacturing, Quality, Sterilization, Regulatory, Clinical, and Program Management to ensure successful subsystem delivery.
Serves as the subsystem voice in platform‑level reviews, architecture discussions, and executive updates.
Secures cross-functional alignment on subsystem priorities, design decisions, and risk mitigation strategies.
Works with Program Management to ensure accurate reporting, milestone readiness, and alignment on system‑level integration.
Innovation & Technical Direction
Guides innovation in catheter mechanics, flexible shaft technologies, articulation, sensing, materials, durability, and accessory design.
Provides leadership and direction for complex subsystem challenges.
Influences the functional capability roadmap by identifying future skills, technologies, and investments needed for catheter development.
Ensures subsystem design approaches meet clinical use cases, surgeon requirements, and system‑level performance expectations.
Operational Excellence & Compliance
Oversees functional execution of design controls, requirements documentation, risk management, and verification planning.
Ensures subsystem development meets regulatory, safety, sterilization, and quality standards.
Collaborates with manufacturing and operations teams to ensure DFM, reliability, cost, and scalability considerations are embedded early in development.
Drives lifecycle improvements and sustaining engineering for commercial catheter assemblies and accessories.
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT CAREER STREAM: Program Managers and Directors focus on tactical, operational activities for a major program with broad or ongoing impact. Levels within the program management career stream typically accomplish program objectives through matrixed employee teams and / or vendors who are not direct reports but for which the incumbent has direct accountability to lead. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, managing program/team performance, communicating project and operational developments, planning, prioritizing and / or directing the responsibilities of program team members. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of program team members.
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS
Autonomy: Manages one or more major, developing programs for critical functions across one or more regions that require development and coordination of new program plans or delivery methods with little precedence .
Is accountable for overall program unit success.
Organizational Impact: Establishes program objectives, timelines, milestones, and budgets.
Establishes new policies and procedures that affect program management.
Has budget accountability for one or more major programs.
Program decisions are generally made independently with strategic or costly decisions recommended to higher level management.
Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are complex, difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.
Problems typically impact multiple major job areas, businesses or functions within a program.
Enhances programs management processes to substantially improve programs.
Communication and Influence: Communicates and conducts briefings with senior or executive leadership regarding critical program outcomes .
Represents one or more programs as the primary internal and external contact and makes recommendations to leaders and executives.
Influences across functions and businesses to negotiate and gain cooperation on new proposals and programs with divergent objectives.
Leadership and Talent Management: Leads a matrixed small unit that typically includes multiple teams led by Program Managers and/or vendors.
Approves tasks and schedule necessary for successful program execution.
Not directly responsible for hire or fire decisions and people management.
Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires broad management knowledge and experience to lead project teams in multiple job areas.
Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function.
Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience and 7+ years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience and 7+ years of managerial experience.
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.
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Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Netherlands: 124,000.00 EUR - 186,000.00 EUR | Switzerland: 190,640.00 CHF - 285,960.00 CHF | This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.
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