We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 11 Apr 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

Careers that Change Lives

Medtronic has declared its bold ambition to become the global healthcare technology leader. By doing so, we seek to reach more patients in more meaningful ways, more quickly.  Are you looking to create capability and competencies in Operational Excellence (OpEx) for the leader in the Medical Technology industry? 

As Sr. Director, Operational Excellence/Strategy & Product Lead, you will play a key role in enabling the enterprise evolution of the Medtronic Performance System (MPS). You will have responsibility for planning and executing process improvements, aligned with strategic goals, across Medtronic businesses, and functions, including Strategy & Technology, Research & Development, and Commercial.

In this position, you will work closely with functional leaders to accelerate their understanding and adoption of MPS; facilitate training and kaizen events; and develop standards and capability assessments to assure sustained progress.  You will coach global functional leaders to build organizational capabilities to create a sustainable culture of continuous improvement while working with functional teams to instantiate process evolutions driving business results.

You will be at the forefront of Medtronic’s Mission to Alleviate Pain, Restore Health, and Extend Life by developing the skills and competencies of our teams to deliver life-saving products.

A Day in the Life

• Facilitate strategic kaizen events with executive leadership teams.

• Partner, develop, govern, and deliver sustained quantitative and qualitative business results and Operational excellence effectiveness within Strategy & Technology, Research & Development, and Commercial functions.

• Identify organizational needs required to achieve strategic plans. Develop and execute plans that deliver annual improvements in performance, process excellence, and programmatic savings

• Partner with senior leaders and functional subject matter experts to build and assess organizational MPS capabilities to groom “one best way” methods and tools with specific focus on simplifying complex processes

• Provide governance of scorecards that include quantitative and qualitative assessments of OpEx effectiveness within functions

• Manage team performance, develop talent, promote engagement and inclusion, and direct the responsibilities of the team.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and 15+ years of experience in two or more functions, such as commercial, engineering, product development, strategy, automation, business operations as well as operational excellence roles (TPM, DBS, etc.)

• Certified: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent

Nice to Have:

• Experience implementing a new program and evolving it from an immature to a mature program with adoption and practical application across multiple functional domains

• Dynamic and engaging executive level facilitation/training skills.

• Strong coaching and influential leadership skills

• Advanced change management skills.

• Ability to convey and communicate complex concepts simply and clearly.

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.

Physical Job Requirements

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 employ