Sr Lean Sigma Manager. (Finance)

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 the Sr. Lean Sigma Manager you will:
• \tFacilitate strategic kaizen events with leadership within region to deliver improvements in performance and programmatic savings.
• \tDeliver classroom training for Lean, Yellow Belt, Green Belt, Black Belt, Shop Floor Engagement, and MPS leader training, etc.
• \tProvide Medtronic Performance System (MPS) subject matter expertise; partner with functions throughout the region and coach teams across the enterprise on critical capabilities and guide continuous improvement efforts through effective tool utilization.
• \tConduct MPS Site Assessments and champion MPS maturity strategy for the region in partnership with the Regional OpEx leader
• \tFacilitate Regional Community of Practice/Best Practice sharing and deployments.
• \tPartner with internal improvement resources to develop and deploy capabilities (teach & do).

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Develops, implements and sustains process improvement initiatives utilizing Six Sigma methodologies.
• Defines, designs and implements continuous improvement programs to ensure programs are integrated vertically and horizontally across the organization.
• Defines improvement projects aligned with business strategies.
• Analyzes improvement programs and potential results.
• Facilitates and coaches improvement teams.
• Establishes and maintains performance metrics to measure program success.
• Installs process excellence supports for program governance, project reviews, communications, training, certifications and rewards.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires broad management knowledge to lead project teams in one department.
Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function.
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 with 5+ years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience.

Nice to have:

• Demonstrated Project Management and financial acumen.
• Six Sigma Black Belt certification.

• Demonstrated ability to teach, facilitate Kaizen, coach on lean and six sigma methods, and provide practical application of content within and across manufacturing and other functional areas.
• Ability to teach and lead kaizen in Spanish language
• Ability to collaborate across functions and influence at various levels in the organization (individual contributor to regional leadership).

• Proficient and experienced in coaching and leading quantitative and qualitative assessments of OpEx effectiveness at sites and within functions.
• Strong change management, coaching, and mentoring competency.
• Proven Technical Competence in OpEx Lean & Six Sigma
• Experience with policy deployment and tier management
• Proven experience working on capital investment projects.

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.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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.

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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 95,000+ 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.

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