Sr. Manager Operational Excellence
Sr. Manager Operational Excellence
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At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.A Day in the Life
Medtronic has declared its bold ambition to becometheglobal 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
This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronics Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.
As the Sr. Manager Operational Excellence for Diabetes you will be responsible for Operational Excellence to plan and execute process improvement objectives supporting the Diabetes Operating Unit. These objectives include specific operational performance targets as well as the development and training of employees to create a sustainable culture of continuous improvement.
You will partner closely with cross-functional leaders to drive strategic and sustaining improvement efforts. By developing the skills and competencies of our teams to deliver life-saving products you will be at the forefront of Medtronics mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life.
As the Senior Manager of Operational Excellence you will:
Guide deploy and execute the Diabetes Operating System our and tools
that support our holistic operational excellence program across the
Diabetes Operating Unit
Contribute to the overall Operations organizational goals by identifying
organizational needs required to achieve key performance indicators.
Develop and execute plans that deliver annual improvements in
performance process excellence and programmatic savings
Partner with assigned Functional teams to eliminate waste improve
process efficiency and lead process and value stream transformation
activities across prioritized workflows
Develop process thinking problem-solving skills and a Value Stream
mindset through Lean Six Sigma teaching coaching and mentoring.
Facilitate strategic kaizen events with functional/cross-functional teams to
deliver improved performance
Must Have:
Bachelors degree with a minimum of 7 years of experience in manufacturing Business Operations and/or operational excellence structures or masters degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience in manufacturing Business Operations and/or operational excellence structures
Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (or equivalent)
Nice to Have:
- Practical experience in applying operational excellence methods in transactional environments with proven process improvement and cost savings success
- Strong change management coaching and mentoring competency
- Ability to influence change without direct authority
- Ability to travel 50-75% of the time (varies based on initiatives)
- Excellent communication and presentation skills including leading training courses in-person or virtually with the ability to convey and communicate complex concepts clearly
- Project management skills with good time management client relationship management conflict resolution training facilitation and administrative skills
- Solid understanding of Engineering Project Management and financial acumen with proven knowledge and experience in integrating continuous improvement
Working Conditions: Travel typically 50% to 75% but varies based on initiatives
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.
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20 hours per week: Health Dental and vision insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple 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 matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital 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 95000 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 addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic Inc. (Medtronic) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County you can findhere a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
