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 LifeAt Medtronic we are working to improve how healthcare addresses the needs of more people, in more ways and in more places around the world. As one company, we can accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team!
This role will lead large scale cost savings projects, drive efficiencies, and work closely with senior leadership across manufacturing sites and the global deliver team to address logistics needs. This position leads logistics initiatives and helps ensure all Deliver transformation standards are deployed across manufacturing sites, raw material warehouses, and manufacturing cross docks. This includes proactively developing and deploying best practices and driving continuous improvement. This is a global role but we are looking for a candidate living in Ireland.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Develop and prioritize opportunities and action plans to improve service and reduce transportation costs
- Lead network changes that involve the opening and closure of raw material warehouses and manufacturing cross docks
- Lead onsite material handling and shipping and receiving teams
- Partner with finance to review freight spend, potential risks, potential upside and lead projects to reduce variance vs Annual Operating Plan
- Collaborate with manufacturing sites and cross docks to drive process standardization and deploy best practices
- Uncover cost savings opportunities, drive cross-functional initiatives and collaboration and lead contingency planning and risk management activities as needed
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Bachelors degree with 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience
- Strong transportation and distribution acumen, including knowledge of transportation planning, warehouse, and cross dock operations
- Strong results orientation (driving to deadlines, financial targets, project goals, etc)
- Analytical mindset with excellent problem-solving skills
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives
- Microsoft Office Suite User
Experience working in multi-national companies with diverse culture, matrix organization and regional led responsibilities would be an advantage. Experience in Medical Device or Life Science industry or an advanced degree is also a nice to have.
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.
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
