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 an experienced IT Applications Manager for Global Supply Management to provide strategic leadership and hands-on management across the development, design, and optimization of key information technology systems that support our core business processes and technology platforms.
This role involves overseeing the analysis, selection, and modification of enterprise systems and application software with a deeper emphasis on the portfolio management and execution of the applications, enhancements, resources, and outcomes needed to run a best-in-class application ecosystem .
The position requires subject matter expertise with Source to Pay (STP) business processes to address user group needs effectively and ensure practical application of system capabilities. Additionally, the role involves coordinating the delivery of IT services to ensure uninterrupted operations and managing a team by selecting, developing, and evaluating personnel to maintain high performance and operational efficiency.
This is a hybrid position based in Bogotá.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Communicate with internal and external customers and suppliers regarding ongoing operations, new requirements and systems, and overall KPIs and performance metrics.
- Effectively structure, detail, and monitor the overall portfolio of programs, projects, and enhancements in flight to deliver on business benefits and outcomes
- Manage internal and external teams of resources by balancing priorities, expectations, and solutions to effectively and efficiently deliver a positive applications experience
- Uses information exchange, influence and active persuasion without direct exercise of command to gain cooperation of other parties and to listen effectively to customer pain points
- Ensure infrastructure architecture standards maximize efficiency and support platform compatibility across the full ecosystem of applications in Global Supply Management
- Coordinate the delivery of services to user groups and ensure IT service is uninterrupted.
- Provide tactical and / or operational leadership and coaching.
- Establish operational plans and implement policies and strategies.
- Strive for continuous improvement and consistency in deliverables.
- Propose modifications to functional operating policies and day-to-day processes.
- Lead, direct and review the work of a team who exercise latitude and independence in their assignments.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Practical knowledge in leading and managing the execution of processes, projects and tactics.
- Proven experience managing IT application teams and large-scale enterprise systems, preferably in the areas of Source to Pay
- Knowledge of Information Systems, Execution of Business Processes, Operational Planning, IT Service or Process Management, Metric and SLA Monitoring.
- Management of People & Resources, Critical Thinking, Project Management, Collaboration and Productivity Software, Effective Communication.
- Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
- Strong English verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficiency with multiple levels of enterprise applications supporting supply chain, is preferred.
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
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What We Do
Medtronic is a global healthcare solutions company operating in approximately 160 countries. We are committed to improving lives through our medical technologies, services, and solutions.
Since our beginning, 60 years ago, our Mission has remained the same: to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for people around the world. The Mission is our ethical framework and inspirational goal guiding our day-to-day work. It reminds us that our efforts are transforming millions of lives each year.
To meet the needs of patients and healthcare professionals around the globe, we operate from more than 370 locations in approximately 160 countries.
