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Medtronic Senior Manager Operations in Kerkrade, Netherlands
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
Medtronic Operations in Kerkrade is the manufacturing location for Medtronic in The Netherlands, specialized in the manufacturing assembly of medical devices, including customized perfusion packs used during surgical procedures, thereby serving more than 250,000 patients worldwide each year.
We are transforming towards a High-Performance Culture, promoting autonomous decisiveness and bold acting and driving Excellence in Operations. In line with this transformation, we are integrating our in-house value stream functions into one centrally-led department – Operations - while attracting new leadership talents.
The Senior Manager Operations role is an entrepreneurial role with the opportunity to play a pivotal role in the transformation of our organisation. You will develop and lead our Operations organization, while building a coherent team. You will drive operational excellence and boost performance, while leading continuous improvement projects, facilitate workshops and optimise alignment with our supporting functions such as Engineering, Operational Excellence, Environmental Health & Safety, Planning and Quality. You will report to the Site Leader and be part of the core leadership team. This is a fully on-site role based at our manufacturing operations site in Kerkrade, The Netherlands and requires a willingness to travel internationally (< 5%) to other Medtronic sites.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Build a successful value stream organization, directly managing 4 Shift Supervisors and a Warehouse Management Expert, thereby leading a 180+ FTE department consisting of Manufacturing Setup, Manufacturing Assembly, Packaging and Warehousing
Develop existing and new talents towards high performers
Achieve and maintain world-class operational performance
Develop and deploy an Operations strategy, improving our responsiveness to dynamic market conditions
Embed continuous improvement and simplification in our value chain within the structure of our Medtronic Performance System
Create a culture of safety- and quality-compliance and foster effective Tier management and lead problem-solving
Boost productivity and capacity utilization and drive process automation and digitization and promote data analysis and visualization
Required Knowledge and Experience:
10+ years of multi-company leadership experience in multidisciplinary manufacturing settings, with several years of proven successes in leading change as a Manufacturing Manager or Operations Manager
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field
Broad understanding and vision of industrial engineering, production technology, preventive maintenance, trouble shooting, integrated quality and factory-safety
Excellence in continuous improvement with proven track record of achieving outstanding performance in discrete manufacturing environments
Mandatory fluency in English (oral and writing) and Dutch language proficiency (nice to have)
Well-developed coaching skills and comfortable with applying modern leadership techniques, as well as strong project leadership expertise and outstanding documenting-, reporting- and presenting skills
Working expertise in and / or strong affinity with highly regulated, systems-structured industries, like medical devices, pharma, food, automotive
Lean Six Sigma black belt certification would be desirable option, perhaps even real-life experience in Performance Management System rollouts and some international working experience
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 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 (http://www.medtronic.com)
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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.
We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.
We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.
This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…
Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities
Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning
These commitments set our team apart from the rest:
Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.
Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.
Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.
Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.
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