Operational Excellence Consultant
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 Medtronic has declared its bold ambition to become the global healthcare technology leader. By doing so, we seek to reach more patients in more meaningful ways, more quickly. Are you looking to create capability and competencies in Operational Excellence (OpEx) for the leader in the Medical Technology industry? As an Operational Excellence Consultant, you will be a core member of a global team representing Operational Excellence in planning and deploying improvement initiatives across Medtronic. Initiatives include a full system for employee capability development, communication, and governance of a standard of practice to create a sustainable mindset of continuous improvement. We move bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness, always putting patients first in everything we do. This role is remote within the United States, with a preference for candidates located near a Medtronic site to support stronger cross functional collaboration and maintain our competitive advantage. The position requires approximately 50–75% travel to foster collaboration and ensure successful project execution.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 10 years of relevant business process improvement experience or an advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant business process improvement experience
- Advanced technology acumen, including practical experience with AI-enabled solutions, advanced analytics, and enterprise web/site hosting platforms to support scalable process improvement and knowledge delivery.
- Leading Continuous Improvement in a transactional space, such as sales & marketing, staff functions.
- Advanced knowledge of business improvement methodologies, with certification (Green Belt or higher, or equivalent) and applied experience in one or more areas such as Lean, Six Sigma, RedX, Agile, and/or Design Thinking.
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, with demonstrated success leading training courses and workshops both in person and virtually for diverse audiences.
- Hands-on experience applying Operational Excellence methodologies, combined with strong project management capabilities, to lead initiatives from concept through sustainable implementation.
Nice To Haves
- Strong change management, coaching, and mentoring capabilities, with the ability to influence and drive adoption without direct authority across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Ability to translate complex concepts into clear, compelling messages, including developing structured communications, learning materials, and capability building content.
- Advanced certification in business improvement methodologies (Black Belt or Master Black Belt preferred), with demonstrated application in enterprise or cross functional environments.
- Solid financial acumen, with experience integrating continuous improvement initiatives to deliver measurable cost, quality, and performance outcomes.
- Willingness and ability to travel approximately 50–75%, varying based on project scope and business initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead and build engagement across the company with the Medtronic Performance[JR2.1] System (MPS), “our way of working better together”.
- Develop MPS standards and content that will support the entire company.
- Build and oversee best-in-class website hosting for MPS.
- Design, implement, and manage MPS learning and training ecosystem, working with Medtronic and vendors.
- Develop and execute enterprise communication strategies to drive MPS awareness, understanding, and adoption.
- Lead and coordinate change control for MPS.
- Lead projects and cross functional initiatives to improve business processes, reduce cost, and enhance quality and performance outcomes.
- Deliver belt level training programs both in person and virtually, while mentoring and coaching teams to embed continuous improvement capabilities.
Benefits
- 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)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
