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Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Medtronic has declared a bold ambition: to become the global leader in healthcare technology. As Director, Integrated Business Planning (IBP), you will play a pivotal role in turning that ambition into reality. You will shape how integrated planning drives the health and performance of our Operating Units and regions, bringing clarity, alignment, and disciplined execution to a complex, global organization.

In this role, you will provide an integrated, enterprise-wide view across OUs, regions, and functions—aligning growth, innovation, cost, service level commitments, financial goals, and operating mechanisms. You will lead the implementation of best-in-class Integrated Business Planning practices, with a particular focus on Financial Project Review and Management Business Review processes. You will also connect the dots between IBP and Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE), enabling smarter decisions, faster responses, and stronger performance in support of Medtronic’s mission to improve lives.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. This position is remote to enhance our competitive edge and expand our cross-functional collaboration efforts. This role will require 25% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure the successful completion of projects.

         

         

As the IBP Director, you will lead a small team of employees reporting to you will:

• Manage the IBP process governance, in particular, the financial projection review (FPR) and management business review (MBR) steps of the process, enterprise-wide, to mature our process

• Develop metrics to measure processes, identify indicators to drive planning for future improvement opportunities, and conduct cost-benefit analyses.

• Coach, develop, and train IBP team members — including step owners and facilitators and influence behaviors across all users of the process

• Facilitating decision making; ensure the process is generating clearly framed decisions, with options and scenarios

• Assess and balance tradeoffs and strategies to meet goals

• Drive the S&OE framework and improvements in ensuring escalations are fed back into the overall IBP process

• Proactively and concisely communicate and collaborate with Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, Operating units, and Regions, and the IBP team to integrate perspectives into strategic analysis and synthesize into a single plan

• Actively contribute to and foster a community of IBP Leaders.

• Act as an escalation point for data quality issues and hold input owners and data stewards accountable

Must Have:

• Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of 10 years of relevant financial or supply chain planning and process improvement experience with 7+ years of managerial experience or an advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant financial or supply chain planning experience with 7+ years of managerial experience

• Deep experience supporting improvements in IBP, SIOP, S&OP, and S&OE

Nice to Have:

• Excellent communication, organizational skills, change management, stakeholder engagement, and influence experience.

• Strong business acumen – understanding different commercial operating models.

• Experience in strategizing and implementing process improvement across a matrixed organization.

• Proven ability to interact and effectively communicate with Executive management and all levels of the organization.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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