We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 4 Apr 2025

 

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

Careers that Change Lives

Medtronic has declared its bold ambition to become the global healthcare technology leader. By doing so, we seek to reach more patients in more meaningful ways, more quickly. 

To support the Global Operations and Supply Chain organization’s critical role in achieving this bold ambition, a new strategy was introduced to enable Global Operations and Supply Chain (GO&SC) to become a best-in-class organization that serves as a strategic and competitive advantage for Medtronic.  

Are you looking to create capability and competencies in Operational Excellence for the leader in the Medical Technology industry? 

As Sr. Director, Operational Excellence/Training & HR Lead, you will have responsibility to deliver training content that enables the enterprise evolution of the Medtronic Performance System (MPS) and plan and execute process improvements, aligned with strategic goals, across the human resources organization.

This position will work closely with Operational Excellence practitioners to deliver a comprehensive curriculum to accelerate the understanding and adoption of MPS; facilitate training and kaizen events; and develop standards and capability assessments to assure sustained progress and embracement of continuous improvement mindset.  You will coach global HR leaders to build organizational capabilities to create a sustainable culture of continuous improvement.

You will be at the forefront of Medtronic’s Mission to Alleviate Pain, Restore Health, and Extend Life by developing the skills and competencies of our teams to deliver life-saving products.

A Day in the Life

• Identify and develop strategic capabilities, competency assessments, and the training and development of practitioners to deploy use of continuous improvement tools to help solve business challenges across functions, geographies, and levels throughout the enterprise organization.

• Develop new and evolve existing MPS standards to reflect organizational needs and external best practices to accelerate continuous improvement and common operating system adoption.

• Identify organizational needs required to achieve strategic plans. Develop and execute plans that deliver annual improvements in performance, process excellence, and programmatic savings

• Establish enterprise capability, program management and governance, and regional training functions. Manage team performance, develop talent, promote engagement and inclusion, and direct the responsibilities of the team.

• Facilitate strategic kaizen events with executive leadership teams.

• Partner with senior leaders and functional subject matter experts to build and assess organizational MPS capabilities to groom “one best way” methods and tools

• Develop, govern, and deliver sustained quantitative and qualitative results of Operational excellence effectiveness within human resources

• Monitor industry developments and emerging technologies to optimize training efficiency and effectiveness.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and 15+ years of experience in Business Operations, and/or operational excellence structures (TPM, DBS, etc.)

• Certified: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent

Nice to Have:

CRITICAL LEADERSHIP DIFFERENTIATORS:

• Dynamic and engaging executive level facilitation/training skills.

• Strong coaching and influential leadership skills

• Advanced change management skills.

• Ability to convey and communicate complex concepts simply and clearly.

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life.  We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

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