Business Process Program Manager

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 value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose

The Acute Care & Monitoring Operating Unit is committed to excellence in innovation and commercialization to pursue our vision and long-term business growth. The ACM OU organization is refining its product delivery, innovation, and commercialization approach to enable product leadership across all segments of our product portfolio. This will require enhancing our innovation processes, refining our design and delivery approaches to deliver an integrated and comprehensive portfolio that enables product development excellence across ACM. 

The Program Manager is a highly visible and impactful role serving both within the operations and commercial network for the Acute Care Monitoring business. They will have a good working knowledge of operations processes and systems and be able to navigate to implement process improvement. They will also be able to seamlessly work with global teams and have solid project management, problem solving and business analytics capabilities to identify opportunities for improvement.  

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of:

• Lead a cross functional team(s) to deliver programs to drive both revenue and margin improvement for the Acute Care & Monitoring Operating Unit.
• Review status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
• Monitor the project from initiation through delivery
• Assess project issues and develops resolutions
• Lead key transformative initiatives impacting right across the value stream from supplier to customer
• Communicates with executive leadership as required to provide updates on progress, taking onboard feedback, addressing challenges, and garnering support for change management initiatives

Key Skills & Experience  

• Level 8 Bachelor’s degree with at least 5+ years of relevant experience in business process improvement roles within the medical device or similarly regulated environments or advanced degree in an Engineering discipline or Masters in Business Administration with at least 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience of running cross-functional programs in both manufacturing operations and commercial space including facility set-up, line transfers, margin improvement projects & business process improvement projects
• Experience of working with suppliers and contract manufacturers
• Ability to navigate the organizational matrix effectively, building strong relationships and influencing key stakeholders to drive adoption of process improvements and change initiatives
• Experience working in a global environment, with a demonstrated understanding of cultural nuances and the ability to collaborate effectively across geographies and functions
• Experience across the entire product lifecycle. 
• DRM, DFSS or Six Sigma Green Belt Certified  

Nice To Have

• Experience implementing or executing operations projects/programs, new process, tools and program and/or portfolio dashboards.  
• Excellent mitigation management and problem-solving skills.  
• Strong communication and relationship skills.  
• Strong presentation skills, both delivery and development.  
• Awareness of medical device industry regulations.

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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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. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here