Business Process Improvement Director

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. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

This position is remote to enhance our competitive edge and expand our cross-functional collaboration efforts. This role will require up to 20% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects. In this role, you will lead the transformation of MDT's pricing practices with a sharp focus on margin management and improvement to drive profitable growth across all OUs and regions. You will collaborate with pricing, FP&A, and finance teams to evolve reporting from retrospective revenue variance metrics to forward-looking, margin-centric analytics that enforce discipline and accelerate enterprise-wide margin growth. As a thought leader and subject matter expert, you will deliver insights and recommendations that directly influence leadership decisions by building standardized, streamlined, and actionable margin-focused reporting frameworks.

Leadership and Strategy : Redefine and advance global margin methodology by developing standardized margin and mix variance calculations that enhance existing revenue variance metrics and create visibility into true profitability drivers.

Margin-Focused Change Management : Champion adoption of the new margin variance methodology across all operating units and geographies. Establish it as a core KPI for tracking and delivering enterprise margin targets.

Margin Roadmap Development : Build and execute a margin management analytics roadmap that modernizes and simplifies pricing and profitability insights across MDT portfolios, systems, and tools. Work with price optimization product owners to leverage technology and align the roadmap with global strategic objectives to ensure pricing strategies, offers, and contracts are designed with margin optimization at their core.

Strategic Integration : Transform enterprise reporting to embed margin discipline across OUs and geographies. Partner with FP&A to integrate margin-based price reporting into gross margin tracking mechanisms, including trends, actuals, and forecasts, to sharpen decision-making and accountability.

Global Collaboration : Partner with regional / global pricing teams, corporate FP&A, CFOs, and IT to design and implement programs that drive sustainable margin improvementincluding pricing optimization, margin accretive product launches, and FX mitigation strategies.

Must Haves

Bachelor's degree with a minimum 10 years of relevant professional experience, including 7+ years in management OR advanced degree with 8 years of experience and 7+ years in management

Nice to Have

Real-life experience deploying margin-oriented price analytics and mix calculation methodologies

Proven track record of leading organizational change.

Extensive knowledge and experience with pricing & contracting systems, including price variance reporting, margin variance calculation, FX reporting.

Strong project management and time management skills.

Experience with global FP&A function.

Expertise in problem-solving techniques.

Experience working within a project-oriented team.

Effective communication skills with strong ability to craft messaging across a diverse set of stakeholders including business leaders, commercial teams, pricing & contracting functional teams, finance, marketing and IT.

Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Teams, SharePoint, SmartSheets, or other planning applications.

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) : $172,000.00 - $258,000.00 This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan. 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 :

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.

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