We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 22 Sep 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

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 onsite 4 days a week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

The preferred working location for this role is the Medtronic facility located in Minneapolis, Minnesota; however, the individual may also work from another US-based Medtronic facility. Additional work location may include:

• Lafayette, CO

• Mansfield, MA

• North Haven, CT

• Memphis, TN

• Santa Ana/Irvine, CA

• Atlanta, GA

• Fort Worth, TX

Careers that Change Lives

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We’re purposeful. We’re committed. And we’re driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide. We look for accountable leaders who have a clear vision of where we are going and how to get there, bold inclusive thinkers who create new ideas and bring our best solutions forward to benefit our patients, business partners, and customers.
The IT Director – Supply Chain Planning, Digital Transformation is the senior IT leader responsible for the plan, build, run (PBR) strategy and execution for the SC Planning Digital Transformation value-stream, which includes Manufacturing Demand Plan, Supply plan and Inventory Plan as well as Integrated Business Planning.
 

A Day in the Life

Our investments are transforming Manufacturing and Supply Chain into a competitive advantage for Medtronic. Leaders with the talent to drive big and complex strategic programs while delivering stability and world-class best practices to day-to-day IT operations thrive here. The main areas of accountability include but are not limited to the following:
Serve as the IT Supply Chain Planning Leader partnering with business owners to create an IT vision, strategy, and roadmap in support of the SC Planning Digital Transformation strategy and vision. This leader is ultimately accountable for the successful deployment of the IT strategy and roadmap, including applications, data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and people/partner ecosystem in the Supply Chain Planning Application Portfolio.
• Partner with business leaders to articulate their business’ needs and requirements that will advance business performance. Plan new joint initiatives, evaluate proposals, and determine how they fit into business capability roadmaps and priorities.
• Develop business case proposals, financial investment forecasts, and annual business budget plans.
• Develop and execute against the SC Plan Digital Transformation IT strategy and roadmap.
• Establish and ensure communications relevant to all stakeholders.
• Manage end-to-end cost and performance of projects/programs and products.
• Advise business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate high level business needs into technological solutions so the portfolio of IT solutions aligns with business priorities and objectives.
Manage the SC Plan Application Portfolio lifecycle and resources inclusive of Ideation, Demand Management, Financial oversite, Solution Architecture, Solution Delivery and Solution Support.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive milestone plan for the overall portfolio, based on the current plans of each constituent project to monitor overall progress of the portfolio (with particular focus on budgets, key milestones, resources, and dependencies)
• Lead the design and modeling of tactical architectures for delivery, development, and support of different projects to build best in class architecture.
• Build and manage Solution Development & Run teams to perform against deliverables, schedules, quality and SLA’s.
• Manage sourcing, relationship, contract lifecycle and service level agreements with 3rd party solution & services providers.
• Engage in Portfolio Reviews to analyze portfolio level metrics, and review progress, resolve dependencies and risks, review capacity allocations, identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Promote and