We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 25 Jun 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 Life

In this exciting role, you will have the opportunity of supporting program management processes and operating mechanisms within Value Analysis / Value Engineering (VAVE) Team. You will work with project leaders in VAVE and across the broader organization to support our programmatic savings targets across our strategic horizon, ensuring robust management and adherence to our governance process. This role will play an important part in achieving our bold ambition of engineering the extraordinary and delivering best in class quality, service, and cost optimization through rigorous application of technical excellence and enterprise-wide development, deployment, and execution of our value creation strategy.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re 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. 

• Provides program communication and coordination support to the VAVE team and critical stakeholders in related Global Operations and Supply Chain teams and Operating Units

• Supports the creation and maintenance of operating mechanisms with the VAVE team, including meetings and dashboards for VP level stakeholders

• Monitors program/project/system status, budgets and timetables

• Applies knowledge of and experience in company operations to assist in the development, implementation and administration of program/system guidelines, procedures, and policies

• Gathers and compiles information for reports and monthly status meetings, manages meeting invites and the VAVE DL for PMs.

• Provides technical support, which may include program/system training, program/system documentation, data extraction, data review, tracking and coding

• Manages metrics, KPI’s, leading indicators and associated measurements of performance; Creates and maintains scorecards and associated measurement systems

• Supports the team as a super-user in functional communication and program management tools

• Performs a wide variety of non-routine clerical and administrative tasks and may support special projects or assignments

Must Haves

• Bachelor’s Degree and 2+ years of Project Management/Support experience OR Advanced Degree

Nice to Have

• Medical device industry experience in manufacturing or engineering functions

• Experience with Medtronic systems such as Planisware, SAP, Ariba and Concur

• Experience developing and maintaining Sharepoint sites, Teams channels, Forms, Microsoft Lists, Power Automate workflows, and other Microsoft work management apps

• Experience with data analysis and creation of pivot tables

• Project management &/or change management experience

• Six sigma certification or other experience participating in, or leading, continuous improvement projects

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):$70,400.00 - $105,600.00

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

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. 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 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.

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.