Program Director – Enterprise Design and Transformation

Medtronic

Program Director leading enterprise transformation initiatives at Medtronic, a healthcare technology leader. Collaborating with teams to enhance organizational capabilities and achieve strategic goals.

Posted 7/28/2026full-timeMinneapolis • California, Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $180,800 - $271,200 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading enterprise-scale transformation initiatives, integrating strategy with practical implementation, and driving organizational change through effective governance and stakeholder engagement. Proficient in business model transformation, operating model design, and leveraging digital technologies to enhance workforce capabilities.

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Enterprise-Scale TransformationOperating Model DesignBusiness Model TransformationChange ManagementStrategic Workforce Planning

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Hard Skills

Transformation StrategyOrganizational DesignData AnalyticsProcess DesignGovernance FrameworksStakeholder EngagementPerformance MeasurementDigital/AI TransformationBusiness Case DevelopmentBenefits Realization

Soft Skills

LeadershipCollaborationCommunicationAdaptabilityProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

AgileLeanProject Management ToolsData Analytics ToolsWorkforce Management Systems

Certifications & Qualifications

Organization Design CertificationChange Management CertificationProject Management CertificationAgile CertificationLean Certification

Industry Keywords

Management ConsultingHuman ResourcesHealthcareMedical TechnologyGlobal Business Operations

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, helping frame ambiguous business challenges, clarify the transformation ambition, and define the outcomes, design criteria, and roadmap required for success.
Translate enterprise and business strategies into implications for capabilities, operating models, organization, workforce, governance, and ways of working.
Conduct evidence-based diagnosis using business and workforce data, stakeholder insights, external benchmarks, and leading practices to identify root causes, opportunities, and design choices.
Shape integrated recommendations that balance customer and business needs with scale, cost, risk, talent, and execution realities.
Support business model transformation by translating changes in customer needs, value propositions, routes to market, capabilities, and economics into operating model, organization, and execution requirements.
Lead the design and evolution of operating models, including capabilities, accountabilities, structure, governance, decision rights, process ownership, cross-functional interfaces, and resource deployment.
Guide macro- and micro-organization design, including role clarity, management layers and spans, team configuration, and the placement of shared versus embedded capabilities.
Facilitate executive decisions, surface tradeoffs and interdependencies, and convert design choices into practical implementation and transition plans.
Assess how digital technologies, AI, automation, and new delivery models change work, workflows, capacity, roles, skills, talent mix, and organizational capabilities.
Partner with business, Digital/IT, Finance, HR, and workforce strategy leaders to redesign work and the workforce around the value technology can enable.
Define the organizational, governance, capability-building, and adoption requirements needed to responsibly embed new technologies and sustain new ways of working.
Identify and measure expected outcomes, including productivity, capacity creation, quality, speed, employee experience, and customer value.
Lead end-to-end transformation programs, establishing clear governance, workstreams, decision forums, milestones, dependencies, resource needs, risks, and escalation paths.
Mobilize and coordinate multidisciplinary teams across business and functions, including internal experts and external partners, to deliver integrated outcomes.
Develop and execute activation plans that address leader readiness, stakeholder engagement, communications, capability building, culture, team effectiveness, adoption, and sustainment.
Adapt plans based on performance data and stakeholder feedback, and transition durable ownership to business and functional leaders.
Establish clear baselines, measures, and benefits for transformation initiatives, connecting organizational and workforce outcomes to business performance.
Monitor execution, adoption, organization health, and value realization; identify emerging risks and recommend course corrections.
Use data, analytics, and qualitative insights to evaluate effectiveness and improve transformation decisions over time.
Codify lessons, methods, tools, and reusable practices that strengthen enterprise design and transformation capability across the organization.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of experience in human resources, organization design/effectiveness, strategy, transformation, management consulting, business operations, or a related field including 7+ years of managerial experience (people or program management)
or an advanced degree with 8+ years of experience in human resources, organization design/effectiveness, strategy, transformation, management consulting, business operations, or a related field including 7+ years of managerial experience (people or program management)
Advanced degree in Business Administration, Organizational Development, Human Resources, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Strategy, Engineering Management, or a related field (Nice to Have)
Proven experience leading complex, enterprise-scale transformation initiatives involving business or operating model change, organization/workforce design, digital/AI transformation, or comparable cross-functional change (Nice to Have)
Experience in management consulting, an internal enterprise transformation function, or a center of expertise supporting senior executive clients (Nice to Have)
Deep expertise in one or more of the following: business model transformation, operating model design, organization design, strategic workforce planning, process/work design, digital/AI workforce transformation, change activation, or benefits realization (Nice to Have)
Demonstrated ability to integrate strategy and design with practical implementation, adoption, and value realization (Nice to Have)
Strong financial and business acumen, including experience building business cases and defining measurable transformation outcomes (Nice to Have)
Experience working in a global, matrixed, and regulated environment; medical technology or healthcare experience is a plus (Nice to Have)
Relevant certifications in organization design, change management, program/project management, Agile, Lean, or related disciplines (Nice to Have)
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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
Simple Steps (global well-being program)
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)
Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)