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
As part of the Medtronic Data Analytics and Insights (DA&I) team supporting Global Operations and Supply Chain, this program manager reports to the Analytics Enablement and Strategy team. This role is crucial for driving strategic initiatives related to operational effectiveness. Additionally, the program manager will coach data analytics teams (squads) to ensure process adherence and lead projects focused on operational improvements. This dynamic role combines program management and scrum master responsibilities, involving collaboration with data teams, facilitating communication, addressing challenges, and driving continuous improvements.
A Day in the life:
- Develop and execute strategic plans and initiatives that support business objectives and drive operational efficiencies.
- Define program objectives, scope, and success criteria related to data analytics initiatives and operational effectiveness.
- Identify opportunities to improve data analytics processes, tools, and methodologies focusing on how to make work easier for the broader team through process improvements and automation.
- Create, manage and communicate project plans, timelines, status, milestones, and risks/mitigations.
- Advocate for best practices in data analysis, data management, and data visualization.
- Collaborate and seek feedback from the broader team to identify areas of opportunities
- Partner and support rollout of process improvement strategies
- Strong proficiency in Azure DevOps platform. In-depth knowledge on Boards and working understanding on Repos, Pipeline, Artifacts and Test Plans.
- Continuously enhance and update the Azure DevOps tool to meet the evolving needs of the organization.
- Act as Agile coach to support Agile ceremonies such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Collaborate with SME/product owners, data engineers, and application developers to support the prioritization and execution of work for data analytics initiatives.
- Oversee multiple Squads (project/product team), ensuring alignment with overall Sprint goals.
- Apply Agile principles and Scrum practices tailored to the data analytics concepts and adherence to existing processes.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Requires a University Degree and minimum of 5 years relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years prior relevant experience.
- Requires practical knowledge in leading and managing the execution of processes and projects.
- Strong understand of Data Analytics for large organization
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, including data professionals and business users.
- Preferred scrum master or other Agile certifications
- Preferred knowledge in operations, supply chain, supplier manage, systems, data analytics, and business process automation.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here
