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A Day in the Life

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with the Diabetes business. Medtronic announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and to reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic. The Diabetes division, now known as MiniMed, completed its IPO in March 2026. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investment to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care. While you will start your employment with Medtronic, upon completion of required local legal and employment processes, we expect your employment to transfer to MiniMed, subject to business needs and any applicable information and consultation requirements in your jurisdiction.

The Senior Demand Planner is responsible for developing and managing demand forecasts that support business planning, inventory optimization, and customer fulfillment. This role collaborates closely with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Operations teams to analyze market trends, promotional activities, and demand patterns, ensuring accurate forecasting and alignment across the organization.

The position plays a key role in driving forecast accuracy, supporting Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), and enabling informed business decisions that help deliver products to customers efficiently and effectively.

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

• Develops, integrates and provides account or brand-specific forecasts for internal sales and operations planning which includes replenishment data, point-of sale data, sales promotion information, marketing plans, manufacturing capacity, and new distribution/product deletions.
• Assists in the improvement of demand forecasting accuracy for internal and external customers including determining the appropriate algorithm for statistical forecasts.
• Maintains and manages product history, accurate forecasting, and promotional demand.
• Analyzes internal demand stream information, and categorizes according to demand patterns.
• Aligns sales/marketing intelligence for each operating unit for use in forecast systems, working with sales organization(s), national sales accounts, marketing, research and development, and related forecasting and planning groups.

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

• Bachelor’s degree is required.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in demand planning and forecasting, with strong skills in statistical forecasting, sales and operations planning (S&OP), demand analysis, inventory/replenishment planning, promotional forecasting, cross-functional stakeholder management, forecast accuracy improvement and data-driven decision-making.
• Fluent in English.
• Spanish and Portuguese are desirable in case it is not native.
• Advanced Excel skills.

Experience of using Power BI reporting and experience of using Blue Yonder planning system are desirable skills.

 

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. 

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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.
 

 

 

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