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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

At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies, and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. As the Senior Global Demand Planning Director for Medical Surgical, you will be accountable for driving a high-quality, consensus demand plan that enables reliable supply, strong commercial execution, and informed leadership decision-making. Driving improvements in forecast accuracy, bias, and value add.

Medtronic’s Medical Surgical portfolio spans advanced surgical instrumentation, energy-based devices, patient monitoring, respiratory and airway management, and perioperative solutions. By combining innovation, data-driven insights, and trusted clinical partnerships, Medtronic’s Medical Surgical business enables better care for more patients worldwide. Our global, cross-functional teams translate demand into scalable, reliable access to innovative technologies across operating rooms, procedural suites, and critical care settings.

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 10- 25% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

         

         

In this highly visible leadership role, you will own the end‑to‑end demand planning and long‑range demand outlook for the Medical Surgical portfolio and lead a global team of demand planners. Partnering closely with Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, and Regional teams, you will drive forecast accuracy, align on demand signals, and ensure a clear linkage between near-term forecasts, Long-Range Planning (LRP), and strategic business priorities.

You Will:

• Drive forecast quality and performance improvements, including Forecast Accuracy (FA), Bias, and Forecast Value Add (FVA) at the global level

• Lead Global Demand Reviews as part of the IBP process, aligning stakeholders on assumptions, risks, opportunities, and long‑range demand drivers

• Partner with Finance and Strategy to develop and maintain Long‑Range Planning (LRP) demand assumptions, ensuring consistency between the operational forecast, AOP, and multi‑year outlook

• Partner with the stat analyst team to ensure a strong baseline

• Drive adoption and effective use of our Advanced Planning Systems to support forecasting, scenario modeling, phase-in/phase-out, and long‑term decision making

• Ensure adherence to the monthly demand planning calendar and IBP / S&OP governance, including integration of LRP into executive forums

• Own the global demand plan roll‑up across all regions and ensure a smooth, disciplined demand‑to‑supply handoff, supporting both execution and future capacity decisions

• Define and execute actions to improve demand planning KPIs, planning maturity, and long‑term business outcomes

• Lead, coach, and mentor managers and demand planners; build organizational capability in both operational and long‑range planning, and support succession planning

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree plus a minimum of 15 years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, supply chain, or related functions, with 10+ years of people leadership experience

OR

• Advanced degree plus 13 years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, supply chain, or related functions, with 10+ years of people leadership experience

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Advanced Planning Systems (e.g., BlueYonder, SAP IBP, Kinaxis, o9, or similar), including demand forecasting, scenario modeling, and planning governance

• Strong statistical forecasting and analytics capability, including model selection, performance analysis, and continuous improvement of forecast accuracy

• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and cross‑functional stakeholders in a complex, global, matrixed organization

• Deep understanding of end‑to‑end supply chain processes, including d