Sr Director, IT Configuration, Price & Quote (CPQ) (Finance)

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life
The Senior Director of IT Configuration, Price & Quote will be responsible for providing business process and technology leadership to transform and digitalize CPQ function. This leader will report to the VP-IT, Americas and Commercial Transformation.
The Opportunity

The Senior Director of IT Configuration, Price & Quote (CPQ) will be responsible for providing business process and technology leadership to transform and digitalize CPQ function at Medtronic. In close partnership with business leadership across the Commercial Transformation Operating Unit (CTX OU) and Regional commercial leadership teams, this role will be responsible for creating strategy, setting priorities, and delivering technology solution to remove friction from sales and customer interaction during contracting and quoting processes. This leader will be responsible for understanding current complex technology architecture and driving simplification one project at a time.

Reporting to the Vice President of IT Americas & Commercial Transformation, this role will be part of Americas and Commercial Transformation leadership team and will ensure alignment across their peers and will be able to work across matrix organizations of Enterprise Architecture, Data Platform, Master Data Management, SAP COE, and Infrastructure & Operations organizations. This role will be end to end accountable for Plan/Build/Run functions of this Value Stream.

A Day in the Life

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties as assigned.

• Partner with Commercial Operations Pricing and Contracting COE Leader on technology strategic roadmaps and enable delivery achievement of business goals of the COE.
• Accountable for all IT matters to proactively support the COE. (direct & indirect team)
• In partnership with OUs, Global functions, and center lead IT teams, ensures implementation and execution of information technology strategies.
• Provides solutions through digital product innovation, creation and management of new IT products.
• Responsible for and/or serves as IT liaison for all IT portfolio aspects, such as prioritization of projects and return of investments management.

Special Technical Areas of Focus include:

• Pricing technologies (including Vendavo, Vistex)
• Contract management technologies
• Automation and Simplification of Pricing and Contracting processes
• Process and Solution Architecture

Additional Responsibilities:

• Portfolio and Project Management
• Vendor Management across Software and Services providers
• Financial management to drive projects within budget while delivering ROI
• Budget management
• Responsible for all plan, build, and run capabilities in this Value Stream
• Responsible for team leadership, performance management
• Ability to "Lead from Front" to enable industry leading CPQ capabilities; and
• Ability to manage conflict and provide feedback for improved execution.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education

B.S. or B.A. Degree

Years of Experience

• 12+ years progressive leadership experience in IT / CPQ
• Experience in holding people and organizations accountable to meeting established standards.
• Experience in a highly technical &/or regulated industry.

Specialized Knowledge Required

• Ability to cultivate an environment focused on customer satisfaction through building productive external and internal relationships
• Ability to build strong partnerships across the organization and influence strategy and decision making.
• Ability to analyze customer needs through soliciting, evaluating and acting on customer feedback and turn that into a technology strategy
• Ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization and orchestrate sales enablement capabilities across Global Regions
• Ability to attract, retain and develop a highly skilled workforce

DESIRED/PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Project management experience
• Functional Transformation

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. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$198,400.00 - $297,600.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission - to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life - unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart- putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here .

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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