Supply Chain Data Solutions Architect

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 LifeAs the Supply Chain Data Solutions Architect – Global Operations & Supply Chain (GO&SC) Data, you will be an individual contributor with significant responsibility to align resources, teams, and overall execution of your programs. Your goals will also include delighting our key customer base with a focus on delivering a best-in-class data experience across Global Operations & Supply Chain. This is a leadership role with responsibility for Solution Design.

As a hands-on leader of programs, the Solutions Architect’s responsibilities will be focused on the most critical programs requiring design, communication, and implementation of operational plans for completing a project, as well as extreme ownership during the full life cycle of a project from Idea through Pre-Study, Development, Pilot, and Roll-Out. The domains of the Data being analyzed will include areas throughout Global Operations & Supply Chain, including Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Detailed Scheduling, Shop Floor, Manufacturing, Digital Transformation, Quality Inspection, Outbound Logistics, Inbound Logistics, Warehouse Management, Order Fulfillment, Backorder Management, and others. This is a hybrid position based in Bogota.

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

• Take ownership, lead, and deliver benefits of key Global Operations & Supply Chain Data programs and initiatives, developing, leading, and executing key Data Solution Designs for the Global Operations & Supply Chain Data Team

• Bring industry and supply chain expertise to help design, solve, and select effective solutions in seeking both short and long-term solutions to data challenges

• Champion the growth of knowledge and functionality surrounding Global Operations & Supply Chain Data through clear and effective communications with leaders, internal business partners, and external stakeholders, collaborating with all functional areas to increase awareness of major initiatives and inclusion in the overall project prioritization process

• Develop full-scale project plans containing milestones and project tasks with the necessary resource requirements

• Create and coordinate project teams and monitor their resource allocation within Global Operations & Supply Chain (GO&SC)

• Report progress and KPIs while escalating risks and issues for resolution

• Grow and develop a knowledge base and experience in key business processes within Global Operations & Supply Chain (GO&SC) Data

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required

• Seven years of relevant Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Operations, and Business Data Management domain experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience

• Strong English verbal and written communication skills

• Domain expertise in multiple functional areas of Global Operations & Supply Chain plus broader practical experience across with Enterprise Data systems and management

• Demonstrated expertise supporting an Enterprise Data Management function that enabled tangible business outcome realization through leveraging data as a competitive asset.

• Experience in product manufacturing-based industry and in solutions design and architecture to see longer term and bigger picture solutions that are scalable, simple, and effective to drive our digital transformation

• Experience in a large-scale, highly matrixed, global environment with multiple operating units managing both centrally to aligned common standards and locally when needed, with a deep and broad experiences leading large and small projects in multiple functions

Proficiency with multiple levels of enterprise applications supporting supply chain, including ERP, Advanced Planning, PLM/Data Governance, Data Visualization/Business Intelligence, Shop Floor, Warehouse Management, Regulatory/Trade, and others, is preferred

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 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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here