We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 28 Feb 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

We seek a motivated Senior Director, Supply Chain Improvement to lead the Planning Technical COE team. We are combining 3 teams under one leader to gain synergies on how we interface together. The Sr. Director-Supply Chain Planning will work to enhance our planning tools, to further leverage our Blue Yonder tool, ensuring we are identifying, initiating, and executing improvement projects across our entire supply chain via data.

In this role, you will ensure excellence:

• In our new Blue Yonder supply chain planning tool, improving its use and features while ensuring its full adoption.
• Across our E2E supply chain by identifying, initiating, and executing projects to improve cost, lead time, inventory, and other key supply chain metrics.

You will partner closely with leadership, business teams, IT, demand, and supply planning teams, M&A teams, and deliver COE across Medtronic. You will lead subject matter experts across network, analytics, demand, supply, and finite scheduling to elevate the success of our E2E supply chain.

Medtronic has declared its bold ambition: to become the global healthcare technology leader. We seek to reach more patients in more meaningful ways more quickly. To achieve Medtronic’s bold ambition, we must engineer a best-in-class Global Operations and Supply Chain (GO&SC) organization that creates a competitive advantage for Medtronic.

As the Senior Director, Supply Chain Improvement, you will lead a team of employees reporting to you and be responsible for:

• Analyze, develop, and implement long-term strategies that enable a best-in-class supply chain.

• Ideation of improvement projects within the supply chain, identify benefit justification, and drive support for project execution.

• Partner closely with key stakeholders to prioritize projects and orchestrate implementation.

• Support the business execution of new programs and initiatives, including forecasting and coordinating key events, new product launches, and network redesigns.

• Monitor key operations planning performance indicators and cost-to-serve performance data and coordinate cross-functional work teams to increase the effectiveness of supply chain initiatives.

• Identify indicators and KPIs to drive improvement in the planning technologies (Blue Yonder and Anaplan), including cost-benefit analyses and plan quality.

• Build commitment to the technology solutions through engagement and influence with next-level leaders and key stakeholder groups, communicating outcomes to the team.

• Elevate the training and skills of our end users in the tool to drive adoption and move from how things are done to why things are done with deep understanding.

• Initiate IBP & S&OE process improvements tied to our planning technology.

• Lead and participate in cross-functional problem solving (A3/DMAIC) to address systemic issues and horizontally deploy improvements pan-Medtronic.

• Develop the planning technology roadmap in partnership with others and drive the successful execution of the actions.

• Build commitment to the solution through engagement and influence with next-level leaders and key stakeholder groups, including commercial leaders, communicating outcomes to the team.

• Establish operating mechanism to streamline processes for network change requests.

• Lead and participate in cross-functional problem solving (A3/DMAIC) to address systemic issues and horizontally deploy improvements pan-Medtronic. 

Must-Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of 10 years of relevant supply chain planning experience with 7+ years of managerial experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant supply chain planning with 7+ years of managerial experience

• Experience driving the adoption of new planning systems and processes across a matrixed organization

• Superior project management and organizational skills, including leading and running cross-functional teams

• Experience executing network improvement projects

Nice to Have 

• Mastery in Planning Systems (Blue Yonder, SAP, S4HANA, APO, Anaplan, BI, Tableau, etc.)

• Excellent communication, organizational skills, change management, stakeholder engagement, and influence experi