Business Process Improvement Director

Medtronic•Milwaukee, WI

16d•Remote

About The Position

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 At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. 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 improvement—including pricing optimization, margin accretive product launches, and FX mitigation strategies.

Requirements

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 Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
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
Simple Steps (global well-being program)
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)
Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)