Senior Principal Consultant

Medtronic; Brampton; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative healthcare consulting firm is seeking a Senior Principal Healthcare Consultant to transform patient care in Canada. This role involves designing and deploying digital health solutions, optimizing operations, and collaborating with industry leaders to tackle pressing healthcare challenges. You will leverage your expertise in change management, project management, and analytical skills to drive impactful strategies and improve patient access. Join a team committed to redefining healthcare access and equity, while enjoying a culture of inclusiveness and continuous learning.

Benefits

Flexible Benefits Package

Short-term incentive plan

Career development resources

Inclusive culture

Health and wellness programs

Qualifications

• Mastery level knowledge in healthcare consulting and project management.
• Experience in driving transformations from analysis to implementation.
• Strong knowledge of the Canadian healthcare system.

Responsibilities

• Optimize operations and improve patient access and efficiency.
• Collaborate with clients to implement strategic healthcare initiatives.
• Train and mentor team members for operational excellence.

Skills

Change management expertise

Project management skills

Creative thinking

Problem-solving skills

Relationship building

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Fluency in English and French

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Tools

Analytics platforms

Health IT systems

Job description

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

Are you a creative, forward-thinking professional looking to make a real impact in Canadian healthcare? Medtronic Canada is seeking a Senior Principal Healthcare Consultant to design and deploy consulting services, digital health solutions, and data-driven strategies that accelerate access, build capacity and find efficiencies to transform patient care. In this role, you’ll collaborate with industry leaders, challenge conventional approaches, and deliver innovative solutions that address some of Canada’s most pressing healthcare challenges.

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB

• The Senior Consultant optimizes operations, improves patient access and operational capacity and efficiency, and delivers sustained performance outcomes.

• In collaboration with the team, the Senior Consultant will partner with clients to help them co-design, implement and sustain strategic initiatives through:

o Clinical operational service delivery reviews and redesign

o Health services planning and workforce optimization

o Clinical Process Redesign across the care continuum

o Data analytics and targeted optimization / modelling for health system planning and operations improvement, utilizing Lean and Six Sigma approaches, and other transformational activities to drive quality improvement, financial savings and operational excellence

• Healthcare consulting projects involving strategy development and organizational restructuring and management of the business to maximize efficiencies and outcomes.

• Works with senior management of companies to determine long-term goals by analyzing the client's business and making recommendations for changes and improvements.

• Utilize change management techniques to engage stakeholders and attain buy-in of the program.

• Train, coach and mentor team members to promote knowledge transfer and shared learning to drive expertise in operational optimization and excellence.

• Generate clear proof points of the value for the program.

• Responsible for reporting complaints and Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR)

CAREER STREAM:

Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS:

Autonomy: Recognized master in professional discipline. Works independently to implement strategic goals and establish operational plans for job area. Assignments are often selfinitiated. Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.

Organizational Impact: Strongly influences the design of new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on functional results. Implements strategic goals established by functional leadership. Changes or may establish operational plans for job area with long-range impact on results.

Innovation and Complexity: Faces problems that span a wide range of difficulty and unique issues across functions and / or businesses which may cause redirection. Develops solutions to unique issues Improves upon existing processes and systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation.

Communication and Influence: Interacts with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels, including executive leadership, on significant matters. Conducts briefings with senior leaders within the job function. Negotiates with others to reach understanding or agreement

Leadership and Talent Management: Frequently provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees. Typically manages large, moderately complex initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires mastery level knowledge of specialty area and working knowledge of several other areas, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience. May have deep knowledge of project management. Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

KNOWLEDGE/EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree, or;

• Advanced degree.

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

JOB EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, with a bachelor's degree, or;

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, with an advanced degree.

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES

• Proven track record in driving end to end transformations: from analysis to

implementation

• Relationship building / customer engagement skills

• Project / program management skills in healthcare

• Creative thinking and Problem-solving skills

• Change management expertise and experience

• Superior communication and presentation skills

• Team-orientation and collaborative mindset

• Superior facilitation skills

• Fluency in English and French

DESIRED/PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

KNOWLEDGE/EDUCATION

• Relevant degree in nursing, healthcare, medicine, engineering, medicine, healthcare, life sciences, or business field

• Strong knowledge of the Canadian Healthcare system, including health system design, and service delivery model, trends and quality improvement in health

• Project Management Certification

JOB EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrable experience over 5 years including relevant experience in consulting

• Demonstrated ability to operate from idea generation, strategy development through

detailed analysis, execution and results delivery •

• Successful utilization of change management techniques

• Experience dealing with hospitals’ clinical leaders, staff, and C-suite/Sr.

Management/stakeholders

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES

• Strong and demonstrable project management skills: planning & coordinating, communicating & influencing, relationship building, achieving milestones, resolving issues, and managing risks.

• Ability to integrate a team and coach it to continuously improve their performance.

• Actively look for best practices, new techniques and tools and build plans and guide actions for implementation in its daily job.

• Strong analytical skills and working knowledge of analytics platforms

• Digital transformation, health IT systems

PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Some travel will be required based on client projects

• 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 Medtronic Canada strives through our vision to build a culture of inclusiveness through our commitment to employment equity and diversity. Discrimination is prohibited on any grounds protected under Canadian Human Rights legislation. Employment applications are encouraged from all members of our community. Upon request, candidates with disabilities will be accommodated during the recruitment process.

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 (http://www.medtronic.com)

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.

We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

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.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare settingis considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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