Senior Director, Supply Chain Improvement

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 28 Feb 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 LifeWe seek a motivated Senior Director, Supply Chain Improvement to lead the Planning Technical COE team. We are combining 3 teams under one leader to gain synergies on how we interface together. The Sr. Director-Supply Chain Planning will work to enhance our planning tools, to further leverage our Blue Yonder tool, ensuring we are identifying, initiating, and executing improvement projects across our entire supply chain via data.
In this role, you will ensure excellence:
• In our new Blue Yonder supply chain planning tool, improving its use and features while ensuring its full adoption.
• Across our E2E supply chain by identifying, initiating, and executing projects to improve cost, lead time, inventory, and other key supply chain metrics.
You will partner closely with leadership, business teams, IT, demand, and supply planning teams, M&A teams, and deliver COE across Medtronic. You will lead subject matter experts across network, analytics, demand, supply, and finite scheduling to elevate the success of our E2E supply chain.

Medtronic has declared its bold ambition: to become the global healthcare technology leader. We seek to reach more patients in more meaningful ways more quickly. To achieve Medtronic’s bold ambition, we must engineer a best-in-class Global Operations and Supply Chain (GO&SC) organization that creates a competitive advantage for Medtronic.

As the Senior Director, Supply Chain Improvement, you will lead a team of employees reporting to you and be responsible for:

• Analyze, develop, and implement long-term strategies that enable a best-in-class supply chain.

• Ideation of improvement projects within the supply chain, identify benefit justification, and drive support for project execution.

• Partner closely with key stakeholders to prioritize projects and orchestrate implementation.

• Support the business execution of new programs and initiatives, including forecasting and coordinating key events, new product launches, and network redesigns.

• Monitor key operations planning performance indicators and cost-to-serve performance data and coordinate cross-functional work teams to increase the effectiveness of supply chain initiatives.

• Identify indicators and KPIs to drive improvement in the planning technologies (Blue Yonder and Anaplan), including cost-benefit analyses and plan quality.

• Build commitment to the technology solutions through engagement and influence with next-level leaders and key stakeholder groups, communicating outcomes to the team.

• Elevate the training and skills of our end users in the tool to drive adoption and move from how things are done to why things are done with deep understanding.

• Initiate IBP & S&OE process improvements tied to our planning technology.

• Lead and participate in cross-functional problem solving (A3/DMAIC) to address systemic issues and horizontally deploy improvements pan-Medtronic.

• Develop the planning technology roadmap in partnership with others and drive the successful execution of the actions.

• Build commitment to the solution through engagement and influence with next-level leaders and key stakeholder groups, including commercial leaders, communicating outcomes to the team.

• Establish operating mechanism to streamline processes for network change requests.

• Lead and participate in cross-functional problem solving (A3/DMAIC) to address systemic issues and horizontally deploy improvements pan-Medtronic. 

Must-Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of 10 years of relevant supply chain planning experience with 7+ years of managerial experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant supply chain planning with 7+ years of managerial experience

• Experience driving the adoption of new planning systems and processes across a matrixed organization

• Superior project management and organizational skills, including leading and running cross-functional teams

• Experience executing network improvement projects

Nice to Have 

• Mastery in Planning Systems (Blue Yonder, SAP, S4HANA, APO, Anaplan, BI, Tableau, etc.)

• Excellent communication, organizational skills, change management, stakeholder engagement, and influence experience.

• Lean Sigma Green or Black Belt certification with a familiarity with the DMAIC process

• Innovative & proactive with a continuous improvement mindset 

• Proven ability to interact and effectively communicate with Executive management and all levels of the organization.

• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills and solid negotiation and facilitator skills to reach consensus, buy-in, and commitment across multiple functions.

• Coaching mindset with the ability to drive employee engagement, inclusion, and development.

• Strong business acumen

• Experience strategizing and implementing network improvements across a matrixed organization

• Innovative & proactive with a continuous improvement mindset 

• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills and solid negotiation and facilitator skills to reach consensus, buy-in, and commitment across multiple functions.

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 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 employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$213,600.00 - $320,400.00

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

This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico. Base pay is based on numerous factors and may vary by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, etc. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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 90,000+ 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.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.