Principle Logistics Analyst

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 **:The Regional Deployment Team (RDT) within Deliver EMEA will deliver dedicated support to the daily logistics operations within EMEA Deliver, with strong focus on standardization, simplification and continues improvement. The RDT support the vision to become a Best-in-Class Global Operation.
As a Principal Logistics Analyst (Black Belt) within the RDT you will be part of the OPEX & PMO team focusing on operational excellence. As a Principal Logistics Analyst/Black Belt you are a recognized expert who can work autonomous with limited oversight of a manager. You coach, review and delegate work to lower tier levels.

The Principal Logistics Analyst (Black Belt) represents the organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making. You encourage the need for transformation and change and manage the delivery of new capabilities and provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within their job area. You feel comfortable in any tier level in the organization. You will interact closely with your peers within the Deliver EMEA community and Global organization.

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

- Deploy the Medtronic Performance System within the EMEA deliver organization.
- Develop, implement, and sustain process improvement initiatives utilizing Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.
- Define, design and implement continuous improvement programs and ensure programs are integrated vertically and horizontally across the organization.
- Define improvement projects aligned with business strategies.
- Analyze improvement programs and potential results.
- Facilitate and coach improvement teams.
- Establish and maintain performance metrics to measure program success.
- Deliver operational excellence training up to the level of Green Belt.
- Facilitate strategy workshops and guidance on strategy deployment.

**Required Knowledge and Experience**:

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering / supply chain / logistics
- Certified as Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
- 10 years’ experience in Logistics
- 5 years’ experience in working with process improvement
- Direct, manage and motivate improvement teams.
- Problem solving and leadership skills.
- Process thinking.

Project Management certification and experience and knowledge of performance management 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.

**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.