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

Healthcare is changing. Our innovative products and services enable earlier disease diagnosis, safer treatment, faster recovery, and improved patient outcomes. This is however only a part of the innovation need.

Environmental harm and social value are intrinsically linked to health. Globally, the international scientific consensus is that, to prevent the worst climate damages, global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide need to fall by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching net zero around 2050. Locally, our governments seek net zero by 2040 if not sooner and have mandated disclosures in all public tenders through a series of Procurement Policy Notes.

In 2022 NHS England launched the Sustainable Supplier Framework. This framework encourages suppliers to the Nation Health Service (NHS) to report and improve on their social value contribution, carbon emissions, waste and labour standards. From 2030, suppliers will only be able to qualify for NHS contracts if they can demonstrate their progress through published progress reports.

This is a field-based role and travel is expected to be ~60% of the working week.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Build relationships with NHS England, NHS Supply Chain, trade bodies and the major public hospitals to understand and respond to the Sustainable Supplier Framework.
• Work with our OU’s & Global Functions to understand their carbon & social value gains, translating that into an externally accredited reporting mechanism
• Create and update the UK&I Carbon Reduction Plan, Social Value Framework, and respond to all labour standards assessments
• Undertake the NHS Evergreen assessment, obtain & maintain a grade 4 award
• Partner Enterprise Sustainability as conduit to UKI/corporate information exchange & collaboration
• Create & communicate consistent messaging for Medtronic’s position on sustainability
• Support UK&I tender responses, providing exemplar answers to sustainability questions that maximize Medtronic’ evaluation scores
• Establish Medtronic as a thought leader in the sustainability space, attending/presenting in all relevant sustainability forums.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience of working with NHS England, NHS Supply Chain, and Industry Trade Bodies on climate change projects
• Knowledge of how to calculate and present carbon and social value metrics. A developed understanding of Scienced Based Targets
• Knowledge of Medtronic’s analytical tools
• Proactive, clear, and concise communicator. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge of sustainable quality improvement processes

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.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: United Kingdom: 66,400.00 GBP - 99,600.00 GBP | 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