Senior Operational Excellence Manager - Danvers, MA

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 14 Nov 2026

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Join Medtronic Danvers and help shape the future of manufacturing excellence. Danvers plays a critical role across our Cardiovascular and Neuroscience businesses, with an opportunity to transform how we manufacture, scale excellence, and create meaningful impact for patients around the world.

As Senior Operational Excellence Manager, you will report directly to the Site Leader and serve as a key member of the site’s senior leadership team, helping set the strategic direction for operational excellence, manufacturing capability, and long-term site performance.

This is a transformational leadership role. You will lead a team of engineers and technicians, advise and partner with directors and senior managers, and mobilize the broader organization to solve our most complex manufacturing challenges. We are looking for a leader who can move seamlessly from the gemba to the leadership table, translating strategy into action and operational insights into long-term competitive advantage.

You will lead the evolution of our manufacturing system by eliminating systemic losses, improving flow and process capability, strengthening Lean/TPS disciplines, and building sustainable problem-solving capability across the organization. At the same time, you will help define the investments, technology, talent, and operating systems required to position Danvers as a Center of Excellence for extrusion and braiding.

Most importantly, you will develop leaders and build a culture of problem solvers, creating the capability and ownership needed for continuous improvement to become how we lead and operate every day.
If you can set strategy, influence senior leaders, develop high-performing teams, get close to the work, and turn vision into measurable business results, we want you on this journey.

This role is onsite five days a week, providing the proximity to our people, processes, and technology needed to lead transformation and shape the future of Danvers.

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

• Develops, implements and sustains process improvement initiatives utilizing Six Sigma methodologies.
• Defines, designs and implements continuous improvement programs to ensure programs are integrated vertically and horizontally across the organization.
• Defines improvement projects aligned with business strategies.
• Analyzes improvement programs and potential results.
• Facilitates and coaches improvement teams.
• Establishes and maintains performance metrics to measure program success.
• Installs process excellence supports for program governance, project reviews, communications, training, certifications and rewards.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.

• Bachelor’s Degree and 7+ years of relevant experience in Business Operations, Plant Manufacturing, and/or Engineering OR advanced degree and 5+ years relevant of experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong background in holistic operational excellence structures (TPM, VSM, BPM, DBS, TPS, etc.) and the associated tools/techniques.
• Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt.
• Experience building strategic roadmaps.
• Ability to influence others.
• Solid change management, coaching, and mentoring experience.
• Project management skills with good time management, customer relationship management, conflict resolution, training facilitation, and administrative skills.
• Experience with establishing Voice of Operations/Voice of Customer in the PDP process.
• Proven knowledge and experience in integrating a Quality and continuous improvement culture change.

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

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.

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. …