Automation COE Strategy Leader

Responsibilities

• Leads the Center of Excellence (COE) for Automation, defining enterprise direction for automation strategy, development, and deployment across manufacturing.
• Acts as the primary interface between MIT COE Strategy Leaders, manufacturing technology-focused COEs, and Automation Development and Deployment organizations to ensure alignment of priorities and execution.
• Builds and maintains long-term enterprise automation roadmaps spanning new product introductions (NPIs), process improvements, and automation of existing product portfolios.
• Integrates automation strategy into manufacturing strategies and network design decisions, aligning with product portfolios and long-term business needs.
• Identifies and defines equipment standards and scalable equipment platform opportunities to accelerate automation deployment and reduce complexity across sites.
• Identifies and prioritizes automation opportunities across NPIs, sustaining improvements, and new technology adoption.
• Drives bidirectional alignment between regional automation leaders and enterprise strategy, to understand portfolios, gaps, and deployment progress, incorporating site learnings into global roadmaps.
• Partners with R&D, AME, and Technology Development teams to embed design-for-automation principles and enable rapid technology validation and scaling.

• 10+ years of experience with a bachelor's degree or 8+ years of experience with an advanced degree
• Strongly Preferred:
  Previous Medtronic experience
• Experience with automation systems including robotics, controls, vision systems, and high-speed automated assembly
• Experience across manual, semi-automated, and fully automated manufacturing environments, including scaling automation across global sites
• Proven ability to define and execute long-term (5–10 year) automation and manufacturing technology roadmaps
• Experience identifying and standardizing equipment platforms and automation architectures across multiple product lines or sites
• Experience working across global manufacturing networks and influencing regional automation strategies
• Demonstrated ability to align cross-functional stakeholders including R&D, Manufacturing Engineering, and Operations
• Strong strategic thinking and ability to translate business and product needs into automation roadmaps
• Experience driving Design for Automation (DfA), Design for Test (DfT), and Design for Inspection (DfI) principles
• Strong communication skills with ability to engage senior leadership and technical teams
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 tools (Teams, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, SharePoint)