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Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

At Medtronic, we lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity. Within the Surgical operating unit, our technologies support clinicians in delivering safer, more efficient, and minimally invasive procedures that improve patient outcomes worldwide.

As a Sr. Demand Planner supporting the Medical Surgical business within Core Surgical, you will play a key role in enabling supply chain excellence for a portfolio of innovative surgical technologies. These solutions help surgeons enhance precision, improve visualization, and advance minimally invasive approaches across a range of procedures.

In this role, you will partner closely with sales, marketing, supply planning, and operations teams to translate market insights into actionable demand forecasts. Your work will directly support Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes and help ensure the right products are available to clinicians and patients when they need them

         

         

As the Sr. Demand Planner, you will:

• Develop, integrate, and maintain account‑ or brand‑specific demand forecasts to support Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP).

• Incorporate key inputs such as replenishment data, point‑of‑sale information, sales promotions, marketing plans, manufacturing capacity constraints, and product lifecycle changes.

• Improve demand forecast accuracy through analysis and application of appropriate statistical forecasting models.

• Maintain and manage product demand history, baseline forecasts, and promotional demand projections.

• Analyze internal demand streams and categorize products based on demand patterns to support forecasting strategies.

• Align sales and marketing intelligence across operating units and integrate insights into forecasting systems.

• Partner with sales organizations, national accounts, marketing, R&D, and supply planning teams to support demand planning and business decision‑making.

• Lead or contribute to initiatives that improve forecasting processes, systems, and data quality.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree plus a minimum of 4 years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, supply chain planning, or a related analytical discipline

• Advanced degree plus a minimum of 2 years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, supply chain planning, or a related analytical discipline.

• Experience working with ERP and planning systems plus experience with advanced planning tools such as Blue Yonder (JDA), Kinaxis RapidResponse, o9 Solutions, or Anaplan.

Nice to Have

• Demonstrated expertise in statistical forecasting methodologies and demand planning best practices, with a strong track record of improving forecast accuracy through demand segmentation, advanced analytics, and continuous forecasting model optimization.

• Strong cross‑functional collaboration experience across commercial and operational teams.

• Experience using data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.

• Familiarity with Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) or Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes and supporting systems.

• Strong analytical skills and experience translating business insights into actionable forecasts.

• Experience in medical devices, healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated manufacturing industries.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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 thi