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

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 as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. 

Careers that Change Lives

The Sr. Business Process Improvement Program Manager - Integrated Business Planning (IBP) provides a complete, unbiased, and objective understanding of how integrated planning actions impact the financial health of Neuromodulation Operating Unit (OU). This role ensures an integrated view across OU, regions, and functions to align growth, innovation, cost and service level commitments, financial goals, and operating mechanisms. The role also drives implementation of Integrated Business Planning and related operating mechanisms to drive organizational alignment between key stakeholders. This dynamic leader steers the planning team within the OU to continually improve Medtronic’s IBP capability.

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

• Run full OU end-to-end IBP process in line with strategic priorities, changes in portfolio, and best practices.

• Understand and track IBP metrics and risks across the value chain and assign actions to mitigate.

• Proactively (and concisely) communicate and collaborate with OU Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain, Sales, and IBP team to integrate perspectives into strategic analysis and synthesize into a single plan

• Deeply understand plan drivers and their effects, demonstrate accountability for plan process, presenting the finalized forecast / financial impact for key stakeholder/ OU President approval.

• Ensure IBP process is generating clearly framed decisions, with options and scenarios for the Neuromod Leadership Team, on unconstrained, constrained, and Free Cash Flow-linked plan (3-36 months), used for execution and goal planning.

• Coach, develop, and train IBP team members — including step owners and facilitators. Model desired behaviors.

• Track IBP process health within the OU, designing performance improvement plans as needed.

• Manage IBP process and product changes via direction from centralized IBP team.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience

Nice to Have

• Prior experience in managing by influence across multiple teams/groups across the organization and presenting to all levels of the organization and worked in a team-based environment which places high degree of emphasis on accountability (e.g., service levels, product launches, inventory management)

• Background in process improvements, product launches, production, or demand planning

• International experience or experience working with global sales organizations

• Change management experience, including a deep understanding of stakeholders (OU/regions/functions) and ability to develop and drive change management plans.

• Knowledge of demand management/forecasting tools, forecasting processes in sales, marketing operations, finance, manufacturing, and supply chain 

• Deep financial and business acumen; understand P&L and balance sheet including levers that impact cash, margin, and revenue

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 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. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that