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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

Senior Value Stream Manager

Careers That Change Lives

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

The Senior Value Stream Manager will join the Peripheral Vascular Health (PVH) Operations team and own the end-to-end performance of an assigned portfolio of product value streams. You’ll connect suppliers, manufacturing sites, sterilization, distribution, and commercial demand so the network runs as one system. The role creates clear accountability across the network, improves supply continuity and service, expands gross margin, and shapes the long-term operating model for the portfolio.

You’ll be the primary Operations interface between the PVH Operating Unit, Global Operations and Supply Chain, internal manufacturing sites, and external manufacturing partners. You’ll turn business priorities into an integrated five-year value-stream roadmap and bring cross-functional teams together to deliver measurable outcomes for patients, customers, and the business.

Peripheral Vascular Health offers a diverse portfolio of devices and therapies designed to restore blood flow and support patients across peripheral arterial, venous, end-stage renal disease, and embolization therapies. PVH Operations enables this portfolio by protecting supply, improving the flow of value, and building a resilient, efficient global manufacturing network.

This position is based in either Southern CA or Tijuana, Mexico, within the Peripheral Vascular Health operating unit. At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We work on-site four days per week as part of our commitment to fostering professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we engineer the extraordinary. This role requires less than 10% travel to support collaboration and successful project delivery.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result—and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

         

         

A Day in the Life

 

In general, the following responsibilities apply to the Senior Value Stream Manager role. This includes, but is not limited to:

 

• Own the end-to-end operational health, performance, and strategic direction of assigned PVH value streams. Ensure seamless flow from supplier through manufacturing, sterilization, distribution, and customer delivery. Proactively identify risks, drive cross-functional alignment, and deliver sustainable improvements in service, cost, inventory, supply continuity, and margin.
• Lead the operating mechanisms that connect 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 clear owners, milestones, resources, and financial outcomes.
• Partner with Product Lifecycle Management and Marketing to define product rationalization, phase-in/phase-out, and discontinuation roadmaps while protecting customers and minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
• Coordinate the operations transition of new products and major released-product changes into stable post-market supply, ensuring manufacturing readiness, scalable capacity, and effective handoffs.

 

The successful candidate will have:

 

• 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.

 

Qualifications

 

Must Have – Minimum Requirements

 

To be considered for this role, please make sure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.

 

• 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 with 5 years of technical experience.

 

Nice to Have:

 

• 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.

 

 

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies, and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.  We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations—but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS - 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 accommodation 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. (ADA-United States of America)

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.

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.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

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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.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$171,200.00 - $256,800.00

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This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: 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, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

 

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: 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), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

 

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

 

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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