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A Day in the Life

Role Overview
The Senior Director Enterprise Business Platforms for HR Payroll Legal and Compliance is a senior IT leadership role accountable for the end-to-end ownership performance and evolution of Medtronics enterprise platforms supporting these critical corporate functions.

This role requires a leader who serves as the face of IT to senior business leadership both for topics related to HR Payroll Legal and Compliance and as a trusted enterprise IT leader for broader technology topics priorities and transformation discussions. The successful candidate will forge strong executive relationships operate with deep business context and jointly drive digital transformation with business partners.

Reporting to the VP of Enterprise Architecture Global Functions and SAP COE this leader will balance operational excellence with innovation act as a force multiplier across the IT ecosystem and drive AI automation and GenAI enabled transformation while building a future-ready globally distributed bi-modal IT organization.

At Medtronic we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we -person exchanges are invaluable to our work. Were working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

Key Responsibilities

Business Relationship Management and Enterprise IT Leadership

• Serve as the primary IT partner and visible face of IT to senior leadership across HR Payroll Legal and Compliance
• Act as a trusted enterprise IT representative for broader IT topics strategy discussions and cross-domain initiatives impacting the business
• Build and sustain strong executive-level relationships grounded in trust credibility and delivery
• Develop deep business and domain knowledge personally and across the IT team so technology decisions are shaped by strategy regulatory requirements and operational realities
• Partner with business leaders to co-create digital and technology roadmaps aligned to enterprise priorities outcomes and value realization
• Establish and operate a mature Business Relationship Management model that enables structured engagement shared accountability and continuous alignment between IT and business stakeholders

Bi-Modal IT Leadership

• Build and lead a bi-modal IT organization that delivers operational excellence resilience security and compliance for core enterprise platforms while enabling innovation agility and rapid value delivery through AI automation and emerging digital capabilities
• Define clear operating models governance funding approaches and success metrics across both modes
• Ensure strong coordination across run change and innovation enabling speed while maintaining reliability

End-to-End Platform and Domain Ownership

• Own the full lifecycle of HR Payroll Legal and Compliance technology platforms including availability performance security compliance and cost management
• Ensure audit-ready reliable and scalable operations across systems data and integrations
• Establish and maintain strong operational discipline across incident problem change and release management

Digital Transformation AI and Automation Leadership

• Act as a force multiplier and thought leader who drives change through digital transformation jointly with business partners
• Lead enterprise digital transformation initiatives across HR Payroll Legal and Compliance aligning technology process and operating model change
• Champion adoption of AI automation and GenAI to improve productivity insight generation decision support and user experience
• Identify prioritize and scale high-impact use cases in close partnership with business leaders and central Data AI Automation and Enterprise Architecture teams
• Ensure solutions are industrialized secure and scalable translating innovation into sustained business value

Global Workforce and Future-Ready Operating Model

• Design and scale a future-ready global IT organization leveraging onshore teams Global Capability Centers nearshore and offshore models and strategic partners
• Build capabilities aligned to skills of the future including AI data-driven decisioning automation product thinking and digital platforms
• Establish clear role ownership capability expectations and career paths that attract retain and grow top global talent
• Create an organization designed for speed resilience innovation and long-term sustainability

Vendor Financial and Portfolio Management

• Own strategic vendor and systems integrator relationships contracts and performance management
• Drive value realization financial discipline and cost optimization
• Manage budgets investment prioritization and long-term platform economics aligned to enterprise strategy

Leadership Talent and Culture

• Build and lead a high-performing leadership team
• Develop talent with strong emphasis on future-ready skills business acumen ownership and execution excellence
• Cultivate innovators disruptors and digital thought leaders who continuously challenge the status quo
• Foster a culture of collaboration accountability learning and continuous innovation
• Model modern IT leadership behaviors aligned to Medtronic values

Qualifications and Experience

Required - Must Have

• Bachelors degree with 15 or more years of progressive IT leadership experience in large complex enterprise environments or Graduate degree with 13 or more years of progressive IT leadership experience in large complex enterprise environments
• Demonstrated success operating as the face of IT and trusted partner to senior business leadership
• Prior experience leading HR Payroll Legal Compliance or closely related enterprise functions or comparable corporate platforms with similar scale regulatory and operational complexity
• Strong track record leading enterprise digital transformation AI automation and GenAI enablement

Preferred

• Proven experience building strong business-facing IT organizations with deep domain expertise
• Experience leading global distributed teams and future-ready operating models
• Demonstrated success managing complex vendor and systems integrator ecosystems
• Executive presence with the ability to influence align and lead at senior levels
• Experience in highly regulated industries such as medical devices life sciences or healthcare
• Prior success establishing or scaling Global Capability Centers
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture data platforms and integration ecosystems
• Experience driving transformation in large matrixed organizations

Leadership Profile

The ideal candidate is a visible enterprise IT leader and trusted face of IT to the business a force multiplier who amplifies impact across IT and business teams and a thought leader and change agent who drives transformation collaboratively. This leader balances stability and innovation builds future-ready teams and capabilities and brings a strong sense of ownership accountability and enterprise mindset.

Why This Role Matters at Medtronic

This role is pivotal in shaping how HR Payroll Legal and Compliance engage with IT and leverage technology to operate more effectively. The Senior Director will help advance Medtronic toward a modern intelligent and globally scalable IT operating model while strengthening business trust accelerating digital transformation and developing the next generation of IT leaders and capabilities.

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.