Sr Mgr Strategic Business Planning & Performance

Role Summary

Senior Manager – Strategic Business Planning & Performance in Irvine, California. Responsible for developing the long-term supply chain strategy, enabling operating and talent strategies, and overseeing major transformation programs to deliver target outcomes within the EP/MedTech portfolio. Partners with cross-functional leadership to drive strategy cycles and provide insights to support executive decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Drive collaboration with the MedTech Center, EP teams, and external partners to create a robust, aligned end-to-end business strategy
• Partner with Electrophysiology and MedTech teams to define a transformation roadmap; document, align, and revise plans, processes, capabilities, and forms as needed
• Foster cross-functional understanding of the “why” and the “how” to deliver and sustain our strategy, ensuring readiness of required processes and capabilities
• Maintain a continuous execution mindset aligned with established governance to implement the strategic plan
• Develop executive-level materials to communicate strategy, progress, and cross-functional alignment
• Tie failure modes and improvement opportunities to root causes from past outcomes to strengthen long-term success
• Define and assess SC capabilities for EP’s long-term success, establishing a maturity and improvement roadmap and modeling best practices for other MedTech businesses
• Collaborate with cross-functional leadership to drive the strategy cycle (Strategic Planning, Long Range Financial Planning, Business Planning) and ensure alignment with Supply Chain, Franchise, Functional, and Enterprise partners
• Generate insights from operational, portfolio, and project data to support operational and strategic decision-making for the E2E EP team
• Coordinate with leads of connected business management processes (Capital, Savings, Performance Management, Reliability, Value Capture) to develop ongoing reporting and escalation processes for the E2E SC LT
• Lead the development of updates, communications, analyses, and reports in support of the EP E2E Team
• Lead, facilitate, and manage special assignments and projects/programs
• Support the monthly executive leadership reporting cadence
• Create and disseminate knowledge-center content, website updates, and periodic communications to achieve buy-in and visibility, in partnership with knowledge/ communications management team
• Develop a reporting cadence, methodology, and visualizations to help leadership understand the EP strategy within the SC context
• Track, analyze, and report supply chain KPIs (delivery accuracy, inventory turnover, order cycle time, cost metrics); identify trends, root causes, and improvement opportunities
• Develop dashboards, reports, and scorecards to provide real-time supply chain insights for stakeholders

Qualifications

• Required: 8+ years of directly related work experience
• Required: Demonstrated success in clearly and concisely communicating across all levels of the organization within an end-to-end Supply Chain
• Required: Previous experience working in an FDA regulated environment within the Healthcare Industry
• Required: Outstanding analytical skills with ability to analyze complex data and translate into actionable items at the strategic and tactical levels
• Required: Experience in business case development, financial / business acumen
• Required: Consulting Firm or Private Equity Experience
• Required: Demonstrated success in leading and influencing others in a complex matrix organization; ability to navigate ambiguity
• Required: Ability to travel up to 15% domestically and/or internationally
• Preferred: Experience in relationship development, conflict resolution, team building and customer-centric approach across multiple sectors / companies
• Preferred: Operations competencies including business planning (cycles), supply chain and operations strategy, operating model, new product introduction, value stream management, etc.

Education

• Bachelors Degree required, preferably in supply chain or a related field.

Additional Requirements

• Travel up to 15% of the time domestically and internationally