Business Process Specialist - Project Coordination

Posted Mar 4

Careers that Change Lives

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 engineering strategy.

We prefer to have this person based near a Medtronic manufacturing facility in the US, Mexico, Dominican Republic or Ireland

You can grow your career with us; we hope you’ll consider joining our team!

A Day in the Life

  • 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
  • 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
  • Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports

Must Haves

  • Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of business process, project management and/or analytics experience OR advanced degree

Nice to Have

  • Medical device industry experience in manufacturing or engineering functions.
  • Experience with Medtronic systems such as Oracle, SAP, Ariba and Concur
  • Experience developing and maintaining Sharepoint sites, Microsoft Lists, Power Automate workflows, and other Microsoft work management apps.
  • Six sigma certification, or other experience participating in or leading continuous improvement projects.

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

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. (ADA-United States of America)