Associate Inventory Analyst

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Our Northern Europe Inventory Management Team is a virtual, cross-country team supporting Benelux, Germany and the Alps, the Nordics, and the UK & Ireland. Based across three countries, the team works closely with all Medtronic Operating Units to manage consignment inventory across a wide range of portfolios, with the level of consignment varying by business. Through close collaboration across markets and functions, the team helps optimize inventory, support local business needs, and drive consistency and efficiency across Northern Europe.

We are seeking a proactive, data-driven Associate Inventory Analyst to support inventory performance and optimization across Northern Europe. In this role, you will analyse inventory data, identify risks and optimization opportunities, and translate complex insights into clear, actionable recommendations for the business. You will work closely with stakeholders across markets and functions, support negotiations such as consignment reduction discussions, and help drive standardization and continuous improvement.

To be successful in this role you improve inventory visibility and achieve stronger inventory performance for assigned Operating Units, provide clear, high-quality consignment insights and recommendations for internal stakeholders, ensure successful delivery of optimization projects with measurable business impact, enable greater standardization across Northern Europe, while still reflecting local market needs, manage your work independently while remaining closely connected to the team and our shared goals, communicate clearly and adapt your style to different audiences, from field teams to senior stakeholders and collaborate effectively, anticipate challenges, and take a proactive approach to solving problems.

Primary responsibilities:

• Monitor inventory performance across one or more Operating Units (OUs) to identify risks, trends, and opportunities to improvement
• Analyse inventory portfolios to support optimization initiatives, including consignment reduction
• Partner with OU teams and internal stakeholders to align priorities, drive and support improvement projects on consignment, and collaborate effectively across a virtual, cross-functional environment
• Develop reports, presentations, and analysis using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and ideally Power BI
• Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights that support decision-making for sales teams and internal stakeholders
• Drive adoption of MMX (Medtronic Mobility eXpress) by promoting it as a self-service tool and encouraging full usage across field Sales Teams
• Gather local market insights and standardize consignment-related processes where possible to shape practical solutions across Northern Europe

Required qualifications:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills; Power BI experience is a strong advantage
• Strong written and spoken English
• Experience in end-to-end project management, with a focus on organization, accountability, negotiation and successful delivery

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business, Economics, Finance, or a related field
• Experience in inventory management, supply chain, business analysis, project management, or a related area
• Experience working in a matrix or international organization; MedTech industry is a strong advantage

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. 

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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.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Austria: 45,680.00 EUR - 68,520.00 EUR | Denmark: 404,000.00 DKK - 606,000.00 DKK | Germany: 47,200.00 EUR - 70,800.00 EUR | Netherlands: 42,640.00 EUR - 63,960.00 EUR | Switzerland: 80,960.00 CHF - 121,440.00 CHF | United Kingdom: 32,960.00 GBP - 49,440.00 GBP |

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

Who We Are

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.

What We Do

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

How We Are Different

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

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