EMEA Equipment Lifecycle Lead - Tech & Ops

KRK Medtronic BV (NLT); Onderste Caumer; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Flexible benefits

MIP bonus

Job summary

Medtronic Netherlands is seeking a Manager, Equipment Lifecycle Management to lead the new EMEA function responsible for tooling, calibration assets, and supporting infrastructure. You will establish the team’s operating model, governance, and performance standards to enable service readiness across the region.

You will drive standardized processes, supplier governance, and continuous improvement while managing budgets and asset utilization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations management, supply chain, business management, life sciences, or a related discipline.
• Leadership experience in technical operations, equipment management, calibration, engineering support, service operations, or a comparable function.
• Demonstrated experience leading organizational transformation, functional integration, or complex change.
• Experience leading geographically dispersed teams and working across complex stakeholder networks.
• Experience with supplier management, operational governance, performance metrics, compliance management, and process improvement.
• Financial management experience, including budgets, contracts, resource planning, investments, or business-case development.

Responsibilities

• Lead the EMEA Equipment Lifecycle Management function, ensuring the availability, compliance, readiness and performance of tooling and test equipment throughout the lifecycle
• Own the end-to-end equipment lifecycle, from demand planning and acquisition through registration, calibration, distribution, maintenance, repair, replacement and retirement
• Drive operational excellence by reducing equipment-related downtime, improving service readiness, and supporting turnaround-time and productivity objectives
• Develop and implement standardized EMEA-wide processes, governance, KPIs and reporting for equipment, tooling and calibration operations, ensuring accurate asset visibility and control
• Lead supplier relationships and calibration programs, ensuring service quality, cost-effectiveness, contractual compliance, audit readiness and continuous improvement
• Lead strategic initiatives including centralized purchasing, equipment loan pools, shared toolkits, calibration insourcing, automation and workflow optimization
• Own financial and capacity management, including budgets, cost transparency, asset utilization and investment planning, while building a high-performing and inclusive team
• Partner with Service & Repair, Technical Training, Product Support, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Operations and global stakeholders to drive scalability, compliance, operational resilience, service readiness and customer experience across EMEA

Skills

Leadership experience

Equipment management

Change management

Stakeholder collaboration

Financial management

Process improvement

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, operations management, supply chain, business management, life sciences, or related discipline

Job description

Medtronic Netherlands is seeking a Manager, Equipment Lifecycle Management to lead the new EMEA function responsible for tooling, calibration assets, and supporting infrastructure. You will establish the team’s operating model, governance, and performance standards to enable service readiness across the region.

You will drive standardized processes, supplier governance, and continuous improvement while managing budgets and asset utilization.