We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 2 Jun 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

Are you looking to drive strategic cost improvement initiatives for the leader in the Medical Technology industry? As a core member of the Value Analysis/Value Engineering team supporting Strategy and Technology, you will have responsibility for leading margin expansion programs that drive cost improvements across the network of Medtronic manufacturing plants around the globe. You will work closely with Product Engineers and Sites/Platforms to deliver on an achievable cost savings roadmap over a 5-year horizon. You will be at the forefront of Medtronic’s Mission to Alleviate Pain, Restore Health, and Extend Life by improving our capability to deliver life-saving products and support new product innovation.

This role can be based at any Medtronic location within North America

• Leads or leverages cross functional teams to execute projects to deliver margin expansion opportunities

• Organizes and leads critical stakeholder meetings to move project ideas from Feasibility to Execution

• Works closely with team members to ensure adherence to VAVE governance process; may own a portion of the governance process and associated deliverables

• Develops and deploys change management across sites and teams to ensure adherence to standards and processes

• Manages process to ensure best practices are implemented in developing project schedule and required resources across different classifications of products

• Responsible for development of project requirements

• Responsible for up-to-date data in Planisware for budget, schedule, savings and status and primary contact for finance partners to address spend and savings capturing

• Interfaces extensively with other Medtronic business partners to gain alignment on project execution and overcoming roadblocks

• Facilitates regular team meetings and stakeholder management meetings

• Provides detailed meeting notes and next steps for programs

• Determines the most appropriate technologies, tools, methodologies, and materials

• required to support cost-down projects

• Maintains and shares technical expertise within functional area and within industry

• Works within Microsoft software suite

• May assist Ideation managers in organizing VAVE events across all platforms

• May creates business cases for projects and prepares initial project plan with estimated costs & savings

• Some travel may be required

Must Haves

Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of Business Process, Engineering Program Management and/or Project Management experience OR advanced degree and 3+ years of experience

Nice to Have

• Medical Device industry experience

• Advanced degree

• PMP Certification

• Degree in Engineering

• Financial management skills

• Demonstrated strong business acumen and planning experience

• Strong communication skills -written, verbal, listening (with all levels of the

• organization)

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Ability to influence business leaders and individual contributors

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 may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation
 

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
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