Value Stream Program Director (ICT Ops)

About this role

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life Careers That Change Lives

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose:

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We’re purposeful. We’re committed. And we’re driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide.

We are looking for a passionate, dedicated, and organized leader to join our ICT OU Operations Team. In this role, you will report to the VP of OU Operations and represent the Operations value streams on the General Manager’s Therapy Team. You will be accountable for the active management and ongoing optimization of end-to-end operations to ensure high quality service to our customers and patients. The role includes both highly strategic and tactical elements. You will lead the end-to-end flow of products through the value streams, while you also lead the development and execution of a multi-year strategic plan to optimize Value Streams and maximize Business results.                     A Day in the Life • Through collaboration with internal cross-functional and site partners, you will lead the end-to-end flow of products through the value streams, using leading and lagging metrics to drive continually improving performance in Safety, Quality, Service, and Cost

• Through effective information flow and interaction, you will develop harmonious working relations with other functions and sites and ensure employees within the team have the necessary information and resources to effectively perform their roles

• You will lead the development and validation of methodology to conduct material and component inventory analysis, ensuring optimal levels are maintained

• Lead and leverage cross functional teams to evaluate, develop and manage projects for key business processes

• Review the status of projects and budgets; manage schedules and prepare status reports

• Regularly report on value stream performance, highlighting successes, further areas for improvement, and corrective actions

Together with your cross-functional partners, you will lead the development and execution of a multi-year Strategic Plan to optimize Value Streams and maximize Business results.  The overall strategic plan will at a minimum incorporate individual plans including: • Value Stream Optimization – identify bottlenecks, stagnant flow, waste, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement within the Value Streams

• Portfolio Optimisation/PLM – active optimisation of our portfolio including sku rationalisation, geographic analysis, etc as appropriate

• Inventory Optimisation – develop and execute an overall Inventory Strategy that ensures optimised inventory levels are maintained to adequately serve our customers and patients, while optimising Free Cash Flow

• Cost Down/Gross Margin Improvement – collaborate with partners in the OU and GO&SC to develop a multi-year plan to drive cost down and margin improvement.  Monitor and drive execution and results

• Network Strategy – collaborate with GO&SC partners to input into network strategy and ensure GO&SC and OU strategies maintain alignment

• Capacity Planning/Management – leverage the IBP process and collaborate with GO&SC partners to ensure capacity is optimised to ensure adequate capacity is maintained to supply our customers and patients while optimising Free Cash Flow

• Business Continuity Planning/Management – collaborating with GO&SC partners to ensure appropriate business continuity plans are maintained and executed

You will own improving the maturity of each Value Stream to establish a best-in-class position across all relevant metrics.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements- To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile: • Bachelor’s degree with minimum of 10 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience, OR advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience.

• Up to 25% Travel Requirement as needed

Nice to Have: Preferred Qualifications : • Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead multiple job areas, and detailed functional and operational expertise

• Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function

• Autonomy: Manages department(s) or region that includes multiple teams led by managers and / or supervisors

• Organizational Impact: Leads the development of the strategy for own department or business area, ensuring links to the company’s aims and objectives

• Management authority to make large business decisions and some strategic decisions

• Decisions impact the financial performance, employees, or public image of the operational unit and/or company

• Typically has budget or P&L accountability for a department, broad functional area or geography

• Innovation and Complexity: Drives innovation across the business area, encouraging best practice and knowledge sharing

• Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead multiple job areas, and detailed functional and operational expertise

• Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function

• Autonomy: Manages department(s) or region that inc

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