Associate Director, Process Improvement

Additional Location(s): US-MN-Arden Hills; US-MN-Maple Grove

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.       

About the role:
Boston Scientific was recognized as a Glassdoor Best Place to Work in 2026, ranking No. 15 on the Top 100 list, reflecting the culture our employees experience every day.

As part of the Global Enterprise Excellence team, the Associate Director, Global Value Improvement partners with global stakeholders to identify and deliver prioritized enterprise-wide value improvement initiatives. This role provides strategic leadership and leads a team of program managers to address complex, cross-functional challenges and execute high-impact projects that drive sustainable operating margin improvements.

This leader will play a key role in accelerating enterprise transformation through operational excellence, cost optimization and AI-enabled innovation. By collaborating across businesses, functions and regions, the role drives scalable improvements that enhance financial performance, operational efficiency and long-term enterprise value.

Work model, sponsorship, relocation:
At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to be onsite at least three days per week and sit out of one of the following Boston Scientific locations: Maple Grove, Minnesota; Arden Hills, Minnesota; or Marlborough, Massachusetts. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time. Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time.

Your responsibilities will include:

● Lead a high-performing team of program managers applying data-driven insights, disciplined program management and continuous improvement methodologies to deliver enterprise outcomes.

● Provide strategic leadership and enterprise-level governance for complex transformation programs focused on operating margin expansion and cost optimization.

● Partner with executive stakeholders to define value targets, shape multiyear cost optimization roadmaps and ensure rigorous, on-time program delivery.

● Collaborate with leaders across the organization to build a robust pipeline of initiatives that deliver cash, productivity and value improvement projects supporting long-range operating margin goals and top-quartile variable spend performance.

● Utilize structured governance, data-driven decision-making and change management expertise to accelerate performance, eliminate inefficiencies and institutionalize continuous improvement.

● Build and sustain a strong portfolio of enterprise-wide value improvement projects to achieve targeted annual improvement rates.

● Lead and deliver prioritized variable spend programs to optimize category spend and improve financial performance.

● Influence senior leaders, drive cross-functional alignment and ensure accountability for achieving program objectives and financial outcomes.

● Apply structured change management practices to build adoption, mitigate resistance and embed new ways of working across the enterprise.

● Monitor variable spend performance metrics and ensure alignment with operating margin targets and enterprise financial commitments.

● Identify high-impact cost optimization use cases and partner with AI teams to deliver solutions that reduce operational costs and enhance end-to-end user experience.

● Oversee model performance, ensuring continuous improvement, operational reliability and sustained business value realization.

● Perform additional duties as assigned.

Required qualifications:

● Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business management or another related field.

● Minimum of 10 years' experience managing operational excellence and process improvement initiatives across broad organizations.

● Minimum of 5 years' experience with AI and automation toolkits.

● Minimum of 10 years' supervisory and management experience.

● Experience working globally across the Americas, Europe and Asia.

● Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred qualifications:

● MBA or advanced degree in a related discipline.

● Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide transformation and value improvement initiatives.

● Experience driving operational excellence within a highly matrixed, global organization.

● Strong understanding of enterprise financial metrics, including operating margin and variable spend performance.

● Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and lead through organizational change.

Requisition ID: 629079

Minimum Salary: $144200 

Maximum Salary: $274000 

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see www.bscbenefitsconnect.com—will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.

Compensation for non-exempt (hourly), non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Compensation for exempt, non-sales roles may also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

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Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at www.bostonscientific.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

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