We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 3 Nov 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

A Senior Supply Chain Planner is responsible for overseeing and optimizing the supply chain processes to ensure efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and alignment with organizational goals. This role typically involves identifying potential disruptions and implementing strategies to improve supply chain performance. It requires collaboration with cross-functional teams, including procurement, logistics, and operations, to ensure seamless product flow from suppliers to customers. Specifically, this role will manage product life cycle management, phase in – phase out activity and product rationalization. Additionally, they may mentor junior planners and contribute to strategic planning initiatives.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work.  We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite at our Mounds View, MN location as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position in MN.

A Day in the Life
 

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Analyzes, develops, and implements long-term supply chain strategies and networks that address capacity issues and production location decisions in support of business goals.
• Supports business execution of new programs and initiatives that include promotional activities, forecast and coordination for key events, new product launches, and network redesigns.
• Monitors key sales and operations planning performance indicators, cost-to-serve performance data, and coordinates cross-functional work teams to increase effectiveness of supply chain initiatives.
• Lead worldwide phase in phase out continuation projects cross-functionally
• Strong partnership with key stakeholders including Regulatory, Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing/Operations to understand strategy for continued product availability
• Utilize SAP/APO & Blue Yonder to ensure correct flow of demand signals through the entire value stream and ensure accuracy of build prompts at manufacturing sites

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor Degree
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience or advanced degree with minimum 2 years relevant experience

Nice to Have (Preferred): Preferred skills and education (Please Included)

• Masters degree in Supply Chain related field
• Strong, demonstrated critical capabilities (Influence, Compelling communication, Analytical, Business Acumen, Lean thinking) and stakeholder management
• 5+ years in a highly regulated industry
• Knowledge of core manufacturing and/or supply chain processes

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. 

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 Day in the Life 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.

EEO

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin,