We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 29 Jan 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

If you are looking to expand business partnering skills, develop influencing capabilities, and lead high-visibility projects, come join our Global Corporate Finance team! This Senior Logistics Analyst role provides key support related to the Americas Finance & Operations Audit team.

A role in Corporate Finance offers unique experience opportunities, such as: being part of a global team, coaching others, collaborating with business partners throughout the company, visibility to global structures and impacts, and insight to various processes and functions across Medtronic. After spending 3-4 years in Corporate Finance, potential career moves could include Corporate Finance or various finance or other operational roles supporting a business unit, as well as movements between functions, such as Supply Chain or Marketing, depending on your experience and career goals.

A Day in the Life

Strategic Carrier Management

• Maintain and drive compliance of global rate cards and processes across all modes of service

• Lead audit management (global audit accuracy, invoice timeliness, contract compliance, review KPIs)

• Identify and evaluate logistics service or cost improvement opportunities

Operational & Regional Unit Relationship Management

• Drive cross functional collaboration on conformance to the global freight policy; leveraging global scale to drive process improvements and cost savings

• Develop and manage related SOWs and SOPs Freight Audit, Payment, & Global Reporting

• Manage relationships between both internal and external partners (e.g., Medtronic Finance, Global Freight Audit company, and transportation partners)

• Drive cross functional collaboration on conformance to global invoicing and freight allocation best practices

• Create, monitor, and distribute invoice level KPIs and financial month/year end reporting (e.g., payment term compliance, carrier aging, and post audit recovery)

• Identify and lead continuous process improvement opportunities to be best-in-class; develop and manage related SOPs

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, PC and analytical skills

• Capable of multitasking and working with changing priorities and deadlines

• Attention to detail and ability to work collaboratively with cross functional teams

• Demonstrates initiative, creativity, organizational ability and follow through

• Self-motivated, aptitude for learning, passionate about generating/implementing new ideas

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required (i.e. Business, Logistics or Finance)

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience

Nice to Have (Preferred Qualifications)

• Excel power user (pivots, lookups, basic formulas, etc.)

• Experience with global freight audit & pay, transportation partner aging, freight invoice best practices

• Strong ability to partner with senior leadership and partner through others, facilitates decision-making activities, builds relationship networks at all levels, and leads change

• Strong Financial Analysis and Accounting Skills

• Experience with analytical tools such as PowerBI or Tableau

• Strong communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills

• Experience with Medtronic financial systems: SAP, Essbase/Hyperion & Business Objects

• Experience with Microsoft Office tools including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

• Lean Six Sigma Experience

• Project Management

• Stakeholder Management

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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