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.

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.

• 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.

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
• 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,…