Advanced Analytics Consultant
About The Position
The Advanced Analytics Consultant partners with Distribution and Transportation leaders to improve performance across the Plan to Deliver value stream. The role combines business expertise with digital capabilities to map workflows, challenge existing processes, and shape solutions using analytics, automation, AI, and agentic workflows. The consultant owns assigned products’ business priorities, vision, roadmap, adoption, and measurable value, working with engineers, developers, process owners, and cross-functional teams. Ownership continues after launch, including support, reliability, maintenance, enhancements, and product retirement when appropriate. The position is open to fully remote work for the right candidate, although candidates near a U.S.-based Medtronic facility are preferred. Candidates in Minnesota will work onsite. Travel is up to 25% or once a quarter.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 10 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree and at least 8 years of relevant experience.
- For baccalaureate degrees earned outside the United States, a degree satisfying the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
Nice To Haves
- Ability to map and reimagine a business process to deliver business value.
- Ability to lead a team of developers to meet solution delivery commitments.
- Ability to learn the capabilities of new solutions.
- Ability to influence decisions and drive projects to completion.
- Familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, or Microsoft Fabric.
- Experience using Power BI to develop or interpret business insights.
- Working knowledge of SQL and VS Code for data exploration and prototyping.
- Experience with process mapping, workflow automation, AI, or agentic solutions.
- Experience with Agile product ownership, prioritization, and value measurement.
- Experience in a regulated environment such as medical devices.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted business advisor for Distribution and Transportation, identifying opportunities to improve performance across the Plan to Deliver value stream.
- Map current workflows, decisions, handoffs, and pain points; design future workflows that simplify work and address root causes.
- Partner with process owners and cross-functional teams to align requirements, resolve dependencies, and improve end-to-end outcomes.
- Own the vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog for assigned products, balancing business value, delivery capacity, and ongoing support needs.
- Define business requirements, acceptance criteria, and success measures; partner with developers and engineers to shape solutions that follow shared standards and reuse existing capabilities.
- Evaluate analytics, automation, AI, and agentic workflows against business problems; guide experimentation and validate value before scaling.
- Guide squad delivery priorities and stakeholder commitments, make business tradeoffs, and escalate risks and dependencies to support timely delivery.
- Lead business validation and user acceptance testing; ensure solutions are accurate, simple to use, and ready for operational use.
- Drive adoption through stakeholder engagement, training, and change management; embed solutions in daily workflows and monitor usage.
- Use products to generate actionable insights and recommendations; track agreed business outcomes with stakeholders and prioritize improvements.
- Maintain ownership after launch, partnering with the squad on user support, reliability, maintenance, enhancements, and product retirement when appropriate.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
- Short-term incentive through the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
- Health insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- Health Savings Account.
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account.
- Life insurance.
- Long-term disability leave.
- Dependent daycare spending account.
- Tuition assistance or reimbursement.
- Simple Steps global well-being program.
- Incentive plans.
- 401(k) plan with 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.
- Capital Accumulation Plan, available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
