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

Main Mission of Job

“Careers that Change Lives”

As a Sr IT Business Analyst, you'll play a crucial role in a rapidly growing international healthcare company, leveraging your expertise in the medical device market to gain independence in your work. You'll join a dedicated global team at Medtronic, a market leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions. Our Cranial and Spinal Technologies business develops life-restoring technologies and solutions for Neurosciences, Neurosurgery, and Spine, spanning from early interventions to implantable surgical therapies.

Main Responsibilities
“A Day in the Life”

This role requires a highly motivated individual to deliver and support IT solutions within the CST Business group. As part of the CST IT team, you'll focus on designing and implementing solutions for our e-commerce platform and integrated systems like SAP, Informatica, Snowflake, and webMethods, working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Business Engagement and Strategy: Engages with business leaders to understand how strategies and data-driven changes can improve efficiencies and add value.
• IT Functional SME: Act as an IT functional SME for Regional CST businesses (Japan, ANZ, etc) in dealing with production issues and engaging in requirement / product improvement discussions with business
• Liaison and Support: Act as a liaison between business and IT, providing production support, analyzing issues, and identifying root causes. Collaborate closely with IT implementation partner teams on development and support activities.
• Solution Design and Implementation: Lead and coordinate enhancements with business and IT stakeholders and implementation partners. Work with cross functional teams, SAP systems and platform teams in building best in breed solutions. Drives business agenda during solution delivery process.
• Collaboration and Requirements Gathering: Collaborate with Business stakeholders, SMEs and IT Product Owners/Managers to develop detailed business requirements for system changes. Participate in requirement gathering sessions, story writing, script creation, and reviews with Business stakeholders and SMEs.
• Project Involvement: Engage in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for enhancements, including story hand-off, writing test scripts, conducting integration testing, UAT Test support, data loading, and defect management.
• Data Management: Engage with regional business and IT teams to set up and manage master data requirements for the business applications. Work with data sets to define use cases to improve products, processes and/or services.
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Bring new ideas and improvements to existing IT solutions. Stay up to date with the latest e-commerce technologies.

Must Haves

Job Experience

• Autonomy: Seasoned individual contributor. Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions. Coaches and reviews the work of lower-level specialists; may manage projects / processes.
• Organizational Impact: May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area. Contributes to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.
• Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas or specialties. Makes improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area. Analysis provided is in-depth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.
• Communication and Influence: Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors. Exchange information of facts, statuses, ideas and issues to achieve objective, and influence decision-making.
• Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area. May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product.

Skills/Knowledge

• Leadership and Mentoring: Experience in leading teams, mentoring junior analysts, and managing projects.
• Change Management: Skills in managing change within an organization, including communication and training strategies.
• Vendor Management: Experience in managing relationships with external vendors and service providers.
• Agile Methodologies: Proficiency in Agile methodologies and experience working in Agile teams.
• Customer-Centric Mindset: A strong focus on understanding and meeting customer needs and improving customer satisfaction.
• Technical Writing: Ability to create clear and concise technical documentation and user guides.
• Risk Management: Experience in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks in IT projects.

Competency

• Proficiency in Japanese and English Language: Should have Japanese language skill set (read, write, communicate). Able to make Japanese business conversations proficiently (read, write).
• Analytical and Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving abilities, a desire for continuous learning, and proficiency in understanding data models and writing SQL queries.
• Communication and Collaboration: Exceptional communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a team environment.

Education

• Requires 4+ years of experience with a with a High School Diploma or equivalent or Advanced Degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

Nice to Haves

Job Experience

• Financial Acumen: Understanding of budgeting, cost management, and financial analysis related to IT projects.
• Cross-Cultural Communication: Skills in effectively communicating and collaborating with diverse, global teams.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to think strategically and align IT initiatives with business goals.
• Innovation Management: Experience in managing innovation projects and fostering a culture of innovation within the team.
• Advanced Data Analytics: Proficiency in advanced data analytics tools and techniques, including machine learning and predictive analytics.
• User Experience (UX) Design: Understanding of UX design principles and experience in improving user interfaces and user experiences.

Skills/Knowledge

• Additional Expertise: Knowledge of the Hybris platform, cron jobs, and exposure to AI/ML technologies.
• SAP Knowledge: Knowledge on SAP-related designs and enhancements for the e-commerce platform and SOM modules.

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About Medtronic
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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.

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.

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

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 95,000+ 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