Senior Manager, MedTech SCT Surgery Plan Leader

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The Senior Manager, MedTech SCT Surgery Plan Leader, leads the Surgery Planning technology portfolio across demand, supply, production, and network planning. This role is accountable for product strategy, roadmap execution, operational performance, and delivery of business value in partnership with Supply Chain and Technology stakeholders.

The role shapes and delivers capabilities across the Surgery Planning ecosystem, including Demantra Demand Planning, Next Generation EMS, Supply Chain Data Orchestrator, Signifi, and OMP. The Senior Manager translates business priorities into an executable product portfolio and leads its delivery across projects, releases, and ongoing operations.

As the primary technology partner for Surgery Plan, this leader establishes clear priorities, maintains reliable and compliant operations, develops team capability, and advances a standardized, data-driven, and AI-enabled product model. Success is measured through planning outcomes, user adoption, service performance, delivery predictability, and realized business value.

• →20% - Lead the Surgery Plan product team and strengthen critical capabilities. Define objectives, roles, and resource priorities while coaching team members and supporting development and succession planning.
• →Build the product, process, data, architecture, integration, testing, and support capabilities required to deliver priorities and sustain reliable operations.
• →20% - Implement consistent product management and delivery practices. Establish governance, decision rights, portfolio routines, metrics, backlog standards, release planning, and risk and dependency management in partnership with the Acceleration Office. Promote reusable patterns and AI-enabled ways of working that improve delivery speed, quality, transparency, and accountability.
• →25% - Own product strategy, roadmap, and business partnership. Partner with Surgery Supply Chain leaders and planning process owners to define outcomes, assess demand, prioritize capabilities, and make informed scope and investment tradeoffs. Convert business needs into product roadmaps, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans that improve planning performance and align with MedTech standards.
• →20% - Drive predictable delivery and measurable value realization. Direct projects, releases, and base-business demand across scope, schedule, cost, quality, compliance, and benefits. Manage budgets, estimates, vendors, resource plans, risks, and cross-team dependencies; provide transparent status reporting and timely escalation; and confirm that delivered capabilities achieve agreed business outcomes.
• →15% - Ensure operational reliability, compliance, and continuous improvement. Oversee service performance, incidents, problem management, audit readiness, cybersecurity, access controls, data integrity, and lifecycle health. Partner with architecture, data, Quality, Technology Services, and vendors to simplify the landscape and apply automation, analytics, AI, and standard integration patterns where they provide sustainable value.

• Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree required preferably in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field.
• Required Years of Related Experience: 12+ years of progressive technology, digital, supply chain, planning, or enterprise systems experience in a global organization.
• People Management Experience: Required; 7+ years of people leadership experience, including leading managers, matrixed teams, and/or global partner resources.
• Demonstrated ability to lead global or multi-business-unit technology teams, strengthen accountability and team effectiveness, and build high-performing, diverse, future-ready talent pipelines.
• Strong understanding of supply chain planning processes, including demand planning, supply planning, network planning, integrated business planning and planning performance management.
• Experience delivering and supporting enterprise planning platforms and integrated ecosystems, including planning applications, ERP interfaces, data platforms, analytics, and integration layers.
• Strong communication, executive presence, stakeholder management, and influencing skills across organizational levels and functions.
• Ability to manage competing priorities across transformation programs and base-business operations while maintaining reliability, compliance, cybersecurity, data integrity, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Financial acumen to support budget planning, estimations, investment prioritization, vendor management, and value realization.
• Proven experience leading business analysis, product ownership, solution delivery, or process transformation efforts.
• Firsthand knowledge of at least one major planning platform, with strong familiarity across S4 Hana, SAP, Anaplan, Demantra, Data Warehouse, APO, or OMP.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and complex dependencies.
• Experience working in Agile delivery models.
•  Up to 20–25% Travel.

• Preferred Minimum Education: Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
• Preferred Area of Study: Supply Chain, Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or related discipline.
• Preferred Related Industry Experience: Medical device, life sciences, or other regulated global supply chain environment.
• Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Experience enabling large-scale business transformation programs such as ERP modernization, supply chain network transformation, or operating model redesign. Experience applying AI, automation, advanced analytics, or digital productivity tools to improve planning processes, testing, documentation, delivery execution, and operational performance. Experience working with global delivery partners, managed service providers, system integrators, and cross-functional shared services organizations. Relevant certifications such as PMP, Agile/Scrum, ITIL, Lean/Six Sigma, supply chain planning, or product management certifications.

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