Program Director, Enterprise Design and Transformation

Medtronic • Minneapolis, MN

1d • $180,800 - $271,200 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Program Director in Enterprise Design & Transformation, you will partner with enterprise, business, and functional leaders to translate strategy into the organizational capabilities, operating models, workforce choices, and ways of working needed to deliver it. You will lead complex, cross-functional transformation engagements from problem definition and design through activation and value realization. Assignments may span business model transformation, operating model transformation, organizational integration and activation, and digital/AI-enabled workforce transformation. This role combines enterprise strategy, organization and work design, program leadership, and change execution to improve performance, speed, accountability, scalability, and customer value.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of experience in human resources, organization design/effectiveness, strategy, transformation, management consulting, business operations, or a related field including 7+ years of managerial experience (people or program management); or an advanced degree with 8+ years of experience in human resources, organization design/effectiveness, strategy, transformation, management consulting, business operations, or a related field including 7+ years of managerial experience (people or program management).
• For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in Business Administration, Organizational Development, Human Resources, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Strategy, Engineering Management, or a related field.
• Proven experience leading complex, enterprise-scale transformation initiatives involving business or operating model change, organization/workforce design, digital/AI transformation, or comparable cross-functional change.
• Experience in management consulting, an internal enterprise transformation function, or a center of expertise supporting senior executive clients.
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following: business model transformation, operating model design, organization design, strategic workforce planning, process/work design, digital/AI workforce transformation, change activation, or benefits realization.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate strategy and design with practical implementation, adoption, and value realization.
• Strong financial and business acumen, including experience building business cases and defining measurable transformation outcomes.
• Experience working in a global, matrixed, and regulated environment; medical technology or healthcare experience is a plus.
• Relevant certifications in organization design, change management, program/project management, Agile, Lean, or related disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, helping frame ambiguous business challenges, clarify the transformation ambition, and define the outcomes, design criteria, and roadmap required for success.
• Translate enterprise and business strategies into implications for capabilities, operating models, organization, workforce, governance, and ways of working.
• Conduct evidence-based diagnosis using business and workforce data, stakeholder insights, external benchmarks, and leading practices to identify root causes, opportunities, and design choices.
• Shape integrated recommendations that balance customer and business needs with scale, cost, risk, talent, and execution realities.
• Support business model transformation by translating changes in customer needs, value propositions, routes to market, capabilities, and economics into operating model, organization, and execution requirements.
• Lead the design and evolution of operating models, including capabilities, accountabilities, structure, governance, decision rights, process ownership, cross-functional interfaces, and resource deployment.
• Guide macro- and micro-organization design, including role clarity, management layers and spans, team configuration, and the placement of shared versus embedded capabilities.
• Facilitate executive decisions, surface tradeoffs and interdependencies, and convert design choices into practical implementation and transition plans.
• Assess how digital technologies, AI, automation, and new delivery models change work, workflows, capacity, roles, skills, talent mix, and organizational capabilities.
• Partner with business, Digital/IT, Finance, HR, and workforce strategy leaders to redesign work and the workforce around the value technology can enable.
• Define the organizational, governance, capability-building, and adoption requirements needed to responsibly embed new technologies and sustain new ways of working.
• Identify and measure expected outcomes, including productivity, capacity creation, quality, speed, employee experience, and customer value.
• Lead end-to-end transformation programs, establishing clear governance, workstreams, decision forums, milestones, dependencies, resource needs, risks, and escalation paths.
• Mobilize and coordinate multidisciplinary teams across business and functions, including internal experts and external partners, to deliver integrated outcomes.
• Develop and execute activation plans that address leader readiness, stakeholder engagement, communications, capability building, culture, team effectiveness, adoption, and sustainment.
• Adapt plans based on performance data and stakeholder feedback, and transition durable ownership to business and functional leaders.
• Establish clear baselines, measures, and benefits for transformation initiatives, connecting organizational and workforce outcomes to business performance.
• Monitor execution, adoption, organization health, and value realization; identify emerging risks and recommend course corrections.
• Use data, analytics, and qualitative insights to evaluate effectiveness and improve transformation decisions over time.
• Codify lessons, methods, tools, and reusable practices that strengthen enterprise design and transformation capability across the organization.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• flexible Benefits Package
• 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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal