Distribution Black Belt - Onsite at Medtronic in Memphis, Tennessee

Job Description:

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 4 Apr 2025

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
Medtronic is hiring in our Memphis Distribution Center, here our employees are helping us deliver on the extraordinary. We require fresh ideas and inclusive insights to maintain our position as an innovative industry leader. That's why we actively seek, attract, and develop employees who are patient-centric, passionate, and who reflect the wide variety of life experiences found among our patients.

We've been on a three-year journey to modernize our U.S. distribution network and transform how we distribute our products. We're aiming to elevate the customer experience and generate cost savings with state-of-the-art technology and standardized processes. But none of it can happen without you - the people who power our operations and ensure that our customers receive our life-saving therapies when they need them.

As a Black Belt within the Medtronic Memphis Distribution Center team you will be focusing on operational excellence, standardization, simplification and continues improvement. As a Black Belt you are a recognized expert who can work autonomous with limited oversight of a manager. You coach, review and delegate work to lower tier levels.

The Black Belt represents the organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making. You encourage the need for transformation and change and manage the delivery of new capabilities and provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within their job area. You feel comfortable in any tier level in the organization.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Deploy the Medtronic Performance System within the deliver organization the Memphis Distribution Center and any other applicable sites..


• Develop, implement, and sustain process improvement initiatives utilizing Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.


• Define, design and implement continuous improvement programs and ensure programs are integrated vertically and horizontally across the entire facility in alignment with overarching Medtronic organization.


• Define improvement projects aligned with business strategies.


• Analyze improvement programs and potential results.


• Facilitate and coach improvement and operations teams.


• Establish and maintain performance metrics to measure program success.


• Deliver operational excellence training in accordance with MPS up to the level of Green Belt.


• Facilitate strategy workshops and guidance on strategy deployment.


• Installs process excellence supports for program governance, project reviews, communications, training, certifications and rewards.

Must-Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Required


• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience or an advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

Nice to have

• 5 years' experience in working with process improvement


• 10 years' experience in Logistics/Distribution


• Direct, manage and motivate improvement teams.


• Certified as Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent experience .


• Problem solving and leadership skills.


• Process thinking. Overall operational knowledge of distribution and automation activities.


• Project Management certification and experience and knowledge of performance management is preferred.

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):$108,000.00 - $162,000.00

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

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).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: 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 , and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: 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) , and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

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 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 .

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.

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. ("Medtronic") in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.