Sr Finance Program Manager
About the job
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At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. We’re working onsite 4 days a week to drive performance, foster an environment of belonging, and collaborate to inspire as we engineer the extraordinary.
The Senior Finance Program Manager is a strategic finance leader supporting Operations and Supply Chain, with primary ownership of gross margin transformation, long-range financial planning, and cross-functional program execution. This role serves as the critical finance liaison between the Operating Unit (OU) and the Global Operations and Supply Chain (GOSC) organization, driving margin improvement through advanced modeling, scenario analysis, and disciplined savings realization tracking.
Key Responsibilities:
Gross Margin Transformation
Serve as the key finance lead for the CST Gross Margin Transformation initiative, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to identify, quantify, and execute margin improvement opportunities. Build and maintain driver-based gross margin models and lead scenario planning to evaluate the financial impact of strategic and operational decisions.
OU / GOSC Finance Liaison
Act as the primary finance interface between the Operating Unit and GOSC, ensuring alignment on financial targets, assumptions, and reporting. Translate operational and supply chain dynamics into financial insight for OU leadership and represent OU financial priorities within the broader GOSC organization.
Long Range Planning
Lead development of the long-range financial plan for Operations and Supply Chain, building multi-year projections across product lines and integrating volume, cost, and productivity assumptions into a cohesive margin outlook.
Modeling, Scenario & Sensitivity Analysis
Gross Margin Modeling & Scenario Planning: Build and maintain gross margin models and lead scenario planning across product lines and initiatives.
Sensitivity / Tornado Analysis: Conduct sensitivity and tornado analysis to isolate the highest-impact drivers of gross margin and prioritize management focus.
Scenario / Gap Closure Analysis: Perform scenario and gap closure analysis to quantify distance to targets and model the pathways required to close gaps.
Geography / SKU Rationalization: Lead geography and SKU rationalization analysis to inform portfolio, pricing, and footprint decisions.
Savings Realization Tracking
Establish and maintain a framework to track committed savings against realized results, providing visibility into initiative performance, surfacing risks to delivery, and ensuring accountability across stakeholders.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. with minimum of 7+ years of progressive finance experience, ideally significant exposure to operations, supply chain, or manufacturing finance.
Advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Demonstrated expertise in financial modeling, scenario planning, and gross margin analysis.
Advanced Excel skills, including driver-based, bottoms-up modeling.
Strong program management capabilities with a track record of leading cross-functional initiatives.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
Operations Finance experience strongly preferred.
Strong technical skills, with a preference for working with Power BI and AI Agents.
MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent advanced credential.
Experience in the medical device or other regulated manufacturing industry.
Familiarity with Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and ERP / planning systems.
Experience supporting transformation or cost-savings programs at scale.
- Performs and analyzes financial modeling, economic research, trends and studies subjects such as rates of return, depreciation, working capital, cash flow, investments, and cost against budget, variance analysis, forecasting, financial planning and expense comparisons by analysis of profit and loss statements and/or income statements.
- Prepares reports of findings and recommendations, compiles and consolidates financial plans and provides insights to management.
- Develops, maintains, and establishes operational specifications for financial information systems considering such things as information flow, volume, ad hoc reporting, and analysis.
- May provide analysis on business development and may monitor business performance by unit, division or group.
Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.
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
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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.
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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).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.
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