Advanced Analytics 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

Medtronic is seeking a strategic and execution-focused Advanced Analytics Program Manager to join our Enablement and Strategy team, specifically within the Operational Effectiveness branch. This unique role is pivotal in standing up and overseeing our Analytics Sustainability Program, ensuring the effective management and maintenance of our extensive analytics ecosystem.

The Advanced Analytics Program Manager will work closely with both new product development teams (squads) and sustainability product teams (sustain squads) to support the existing analytics ecosystem. Key responsibilities include intake management & triage, analytics product updates, ecosystem/platform health, and quality assurance. The role requires implementing a phased approach to stand up the program, collaboratively designing systems and processes for sustain squads, including governance and operating models, roles and responsibilities, and interaction protocols with new product development teams. Additionally, they will develop metrics to monitor the success of the Sustain Program, manage regular report outs to leadership, and ensure effective operation of sustainability activities.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Program Management: Lead the establishment of the analytics sustainability program, defining its scope, guidelines, governance structure, and operating model.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with both new product development squads and sustainability squads as well as inter-team departments (Product Owners, Application Development, Analytics Data Engineering, etc.) to determine most effective ways to support the existing analytics ecosystem.
• Activity Management: Focus on standing up processes so that the Sustain Squads can execute key activities such as intake management, triage, analytics product updates, ecosystem health, and quality assurance.
• Phased Approach: Implement a phased approach to stand up the program, initially concentrating on intake management, triage, updates to analytics products, ad hoc requests, data refresh monitoring, and runtime performance.
• System & Process Design: Design systems and processes for sustainability squads, including governance and operating models, roles and responsibilities, and interaction protocols with new product development teams.
• Metrics and Reporting: Define and develop metrics to monitor the success of the sustainability program, manage regular report outs to leadership, and ensure effective operation of sustainability activities.
• Continuous Improvement: Establish a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for process optimization and innovation. Implement regular performance reviews and feedback mechanisms to drive ongoing enhancements and ensure the sustainability of improvements. 
• Communication: Effectively communicate project progress, issues, and risks to leadership and cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment and transparency across stakeholders. Proactively manage escalations and follow-ups across teams.
• Change Management: Lead the development and implementation of change management strategies to ensure the smooth integration of new processes, systems, and tools within the organization.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Proven track record with 5+ years of business experience.
• Skilled in project setup, process documentation, training, and identifying subject matter experts. 
• Deep understanding of the broader analytics and enterprise ecosystem. 
• Knowledgeable in Power BI, Power Automate, SQL, and Python. 
• Able to evaluate opportunities for process improvement through automa tion and AI. 
• Knowledgeable in Azure DevOps and the Scrum framework. 
• Expertise in defining and measuring team performance metrics. Highly organized with a keen eye for detail.
• Effective in communication across teams and with end users, strong follow-through and proactive follow-up.
• Able to act independently or escalate when needed.

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.
 

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