Senior Value Stream Manager - PVH
About The Position
The Senior Value Stream Manager will join the Peripheral Vascular Health (PVH) Operations team and own the end-to-end performance and strategic direction of an assigned portfolio of product value streams. The role connects suppliers, manufacturing sites, sterilization, distribution, and commercial demand to improve supply continuity and service, expand gross margin, and shape the portfolio’s long-term operating model. The position is the primary Operations interface between the PVH Operating Unit, Global Operations and Supply Chain, internal manufacturing sites, and external manufacturing partners. It translates business priorities into an integrated five-year value-stream roadmap and brings cross-functional teams together to deliver outcomes for patients, customers, and the business. The role is based in Southern California or Tijuana, Mexico. Work is on-site four days per week, with less than 10% travel expected to support collaboration and project delivery. The successful candidate will have experience leading people, programs, or cross-functional teams; managing end-to-end supply, manufacturing, or product value streams; and translating strategy into multi-year roadmaps, initiatives, metrics, and governance. A bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or math and at least seven years of technical work experience, or an advanced degree in those fields and at least five years of technical experience, is required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or math and a minimum of 7 years of technical work experience, or an advanced degree in science, technology, engineering, or math and 5 years of technical experience.
- At least 5 years leading people, programs, or cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
- Demonstrated experience managing end-to-end supply, manufacturing, or product value streams in a regulated or highly controlled environment.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex problem solving, risk mitigation, prioritization, and execution across multiple sites and functions.
- Experience translating strategy into a multi-year roadmap, portfolio of initiatives, operating metrics, and governance.
- Strong financial and business acumen, including cost, inventory, capacity, and margin trade-offs.
- Ability to communicate and influence effectively from working teams through senior and executive leadership.
- Ability to travel to manufacturing sites, suppliers, and business locations as required.
Nice To Haves
- Medical-device or other regulated-industry experience.
- Lean, Six Sigma, or Medtronic Performance System certification and practical value-stream mapping experience.
- Experience leading Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Excellence, Program Management, or site operations.
- Experience with product life-cycle management, portfolio rationalization, phase-in/phase-out, and released-product management.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end operational health, performance, and strategic direction of assigned PVH value streams, ensuring flow from suppliers through manufacturing, sterilization, distribution, and customer delivery.
- Identify risks, drive cross-functional alignment, and deliver sustainable improvements in service, cost, inventory, supply continuity, and margin.
- Lead operating mechanisms connecting the Operating Unit, manufacturing sites, Global Supply Chain, Quality, Sourcing, Engineering, Finance, Marketing, Regulatory, Product Lifecycle Management, and New Product Development.
- Lead end-to-end value-stream mapping and future-state design using the Medtronic Performance System and Lean principles to reduce waste, lead time, complexity, and operating cost.
- Build and govern a prioritized portfolio of cost-down, margin-expansion, capacity, reliability, inventory, and network-optimization initiatives, with owners, milestones, resources, and financial outcomes.
- Partner with Product Lifecycle Management and Marketing on product rationalization, phase-in/phase-out, and discontinuation roadmaps while protecting customers and minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
- Coordinate operational transitions of new products and major released-product changes into stable post-market supply, ensuring manufacturing readiness, scalable capacity, and effective handoffs.
- Travel to manufacturing sites, suppliers, and business locations as required.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
- Short-term incentive through the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
- Health, dental, and vision insurance (for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week).
- Health Savings Account and Healthcare Flexible Spending Account (for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week).
- Life insurance and long-term disability leave (for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week).
- Dependent daycare spending account and tuition assistance/reimbursement (for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week).
- Simple Steps global well-being program (for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week).
- Incentive plans.
- 401(k) plan with employer contribution and match.
- Short-term disability.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement, subject to IRS earning minimums.
- Capital Accumulation Plan for 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
