Sr Finance Program Manager
About The Position
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 10 Jul 2026 Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. A Day in the Life Across our global Neuroscience organization, we advance care for some of medicine’s most complex neurological and spinal conditions. By combining innovative technology, data-driven insights, and deep clinical expertise, we partner with physicians and health systems to improve how patients are treated and supported throughout their care journey. Our Cranial & Spinal Technologies (CST) Operating Unit develops and delivers an integrated ecosystem of spinal implants, navigation and robotic guidance systems, advanced imaging, and data-driven planning tools for complex spine and cranial procedures. Platforms such as AiBLE™ connect these technologies to enhance surgical precision, streamline workflows, and support improved patient outcomes across the globe. Check us out on LinkedIn: Medtronic CST At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. We’re working onsite 4 days a week to drive performance, foster an environment of belonging, and collaborate to inspire as we engineer the extraordinary. The Senior Finance Program Manager is a strategic finance leader supporting Operations and Supply Chain, with primary ownership of gross margin transformation, long-range financial planning, and cross-functional program execution. This role serves as the critical finance liaison between the Operating Unit (OU) and the Global Operations and Supply Chain (GOSC) organization, driving margin improvement through advanced modeling, scenario analysis, and disciplined savings realization tracking.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. with minimum of 7+ years of progressive finance experience, ideally significant exposure to operations, supply chain, or manufacturing finance.
- Advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience
- Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Demonstrated expertise in financial modeling, scenario planning, and gross margin analysis.
- Advanced Excel skills, including driver-based, bottoms-up modeling.
- Strong program management capabilities with a track record of leading cross-functional initiatives.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Operations Finance experience strongly preferred.
- Strong technical skills, with a preference for working with Power BI and AI Agents.
- MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent advanced credential.
- Experience in the medical device or other regulated manufacturing industry.
- Familiarity with Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and ERP / planning systems.
- Experience supporting transformation or cost-savings programs at scale.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the key finance lead for the CST Gross Margin Transformation initiative, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to identify, quantify, and execute margin improvement opportunities.
- Build and maintain driver-based gross margin models and lead scenario planning to evaluate the financial impact of strategic and operational decisions.
- Act as the primary finance interface between the Operating Unit and GOSC, ensuring alignment on financial targets, assumptions, and reporting.
- Translate operational and supply chain dynamics into financial insight for OU leadership and represent OU financial priorities within the broader GOSC organization.
- Lead development of the long-range financial plan for Operations and Supply Chain, building multi-year projections across product lines and integrating volume, cost, and productivity assumptions into a cohesive margin outlook.
- Build and maintain gross margin models and lead scenario planning across product lines and initiatives.
- Conduct sensitivity and tornado analysis to isolate the highest-impact drivers of gross margin and prioritize management focus.
- Perform scenario and gap closure analysis to quantify distance to targets and model the pathways required to close gaps.
- Lead geography and SKU rationalization analysis to inform portfolio, pricing, and footprint decisions.
- Establish and maintain a framework to track committed savings against realized results, providing visibility into initiative performance, surfacing risks to delivery, and ensuring accountability across stakeholders.
- Performs and analyzes financial modeling, economic research, trends and studies subjects such as rates of return, depreciation, working capital, cash flow, investments, and cost against budget, variance analysis, forecasting, financial planning and expense comparisons by analysis of profit and loss statements and/or income statements.
- Prepares reports of findings and recommendations, compiles and consolidates financial plans and provides insights to management.
- Develops, maintains, and establishes operational specifications for financial information systems considering such things as information flow, volume, ad hoc reporting, and analysis.
- May provide analysis on business development and may monitor business performance by unit, division or group.
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
