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The preferred working location for this role is the Medtronic facility located in Mounds View, Minnesota; however, the individual may also work onsite at another US-based Medtronic facility.

• Mounds View, Minnesota
• Boston, Massachusetts
• Lafayette, Colorado
• Irvine, California (UCI)
• Jacksonville, Florida
• Fort Worth, Texas
• Memphis, Tennessee
• North Haven, Connecticut

In this pivotal role as Sr. Manager – Cybersecurity OT Manufacturing & Distribution, you will lead the operational technology (OT) cybersecurity strategy and execution for Medtronic manufacturing and distribution environments. This leader is accountable for translating enterprise cybersecurity objectives into operational plans, standards, and business outcomes across multiple job areas, while protecting critical manufacturing operations, distribution capabilities, and patient-impacting processes.

This role requires broad management and leadership capability, deep functional and operational expertise in OT cybersecurity, and mastery within a technical discipline with broad understanding of adjacent areas including engineering, manufacturing operations, infrastructure, network security, incident response, risk management, and regulatory compliance. The Sr. Manager must influence across functions, drive alignment among stakeholders with differing priorities, and lead teams through complex, ambiguous, and high-impact operational security challenges.

We seek leaders with a clear vision, bold and inclusive thinkers who can generate innovative ideas and drive our best solutions forward, benefiting our patients, business partners, and customers.

The Senior Manager – Cybersecurity OT (Operational Technology) Manufacturing & Distribution leads the development and execution of the OT cybersecurity strategy for a department or business area, ensuring alignment to Medtronic’s enterprise objectives and the resiliency of manufacturing and distribution operations. This leader manages experienced professionals and/or people or program leaders, provides thought and technical leadership, recommends goals and plans for the function, and makes decisions that affect operational priorities, resources, budgets, and delivery outcomes.

This role operates with a high degree of autonomy and is expected to solve complex, difficult, and often undefined problems through investigation, analysis, and collaboration. The Sr. Manager establishes new objectives, policies, standards, and operating processes that strengthen OT security, improve consistency across sites, and enable secure business growth. The role regularly influences leaders across engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, enterprise IT, and cybersecurity, and communicates operational and strategic updates to senior leadership.

Responsibilities include:

Strategic Leadership and Planning:

• Lead the development, communication, and execution of the OT cybersecurity strategy for manufacturing and distribution environments, ensuring linkage to Medtronic’s enterprise strategy, business objectives, and risk priorities.

• Translate strategy into operational plans, roadmaps, standards, and measurable business outcomes across multiple OT security job areas and site operations.

• Recommend strategies, goals, priorities, and resource plans for the OT cybersecurity function, balancing business continuity, resilience, compliance, and risk reduction.

• Partner with senior leaders across manufacturing, engineering, quality, supply chain, and enterprise cybersecurity to integrate OT security into business and operational decisions.

Leadership and Talent Management:

• Lead, coach, and develop experienced professionals, site security champions, and/or people or program leaders; set clear performance expectations and build organizational capability.

• Drive talent planning, succession, engagement, performance management, and professional development for the OT cybersecurity team.

• Authorize and support hiring, promotion, reward, and other people decisions within the function, consistent with business needs and Medtronic policies.

Risk Management and Security Governance:

• Direct OT risk assessments, threat modeling, and vulnerability analysis for manufacturing and distribution environments, including identification of complex or systemic risk patterns.

• Establish, implement, and continuously improve OT cybersecurity policies, standards, controls, and governance mechanisms aligned to business needs and industry expectations.

• Initiate programs and projects based on identified business, operational, and tactical needs to improve cyber resilience, consistency, and compliance across sites.

Security Architecture, Operations, and Innovation:

• Provide technical leadership for secure OT architecture, network segmentation, remote access, asset protection, monitoring, and secure integration between IT and OT environments.

• Evaluate, prioritize, and drive adoption of security technologies, operational capabilities, and process improvements that significantly improve OT security effectiveness and scalability.

• Develop new objectives, operating procedures, standards, and cross-site practices that address complex, undefined security challenges and enable knowledge sharing and best practices across the business area.

Incident Response and Resilience:

• Lead OT cyber incident readiness and response, including investigation, containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned, and executive communications.

• Coordinate with enterprise cyber defense, manufacturing operations, site leadership, legal, quality, and other partners during significant incidents or operational disruptions.

• Ensure incident response plans, playbooks, and recovery strategies are maintained, tested, and continuously improved for critical OT processes.

• Compliance, Communication, and Stakeholder Influence:

• Ensure OT environments comply with applicable internal policies, regulatory requirements, and industry standards such as NIST 800-82, IEC 62443, and other relevant frameworks.

• Influence across functions and businesses while balancing divergent objectives to gain cooperation on operational priorities, program execution, and security decisions.

• Develop long-term strategic relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, vendors, and partners to strengthen OT cybersecurity outcomes.

• Communicate and present OT security risks, strategy, program health, and business impacts to technical teams, business leaders, and senior leadership.

• Financial and Operational Accountability:

• Manage the OT cybersecurity budget and resource plans for the function, including prioritization of expenditures, vendor services, and technology investments.

• Make decisions that affect project and operational deadlines, resources, funds, and the achievement of organizational objectives.

• Drive continuous improvement in operational delivery, control effectiveness, and consistency of outcomes across manufacturing and distribution environments.

MUST HAVE (Minimum Qualifications)

• 7+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of experience with an advanced degree

• 5+ years of managerial experience

NICE TO HAVE (Preferred Qualifications)

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant cybersecurity experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 8 years of relevant experience with an advanced degree.

• Minimum of 7+ years of managerial experience leading teams of experienced professionals and/or people or program leaders

• Previous Medtronic experience.

• Experience leading cybersecurity programs in ICS, OT, manufacturing, and/or distribution environments.

• Demonstrated success developing department or business-area strategies and translating them into roadmaps, standards, business plans, and measurable outcomes.

• Experience leading cross-functional programs involving engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, enterprise IT, and cybersecurity stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to solve complex, difficult, and undefined problems using data gathering, analysis, investigation, and structured decision-making.

• Experience influencing across functions and businesses, balancing divergent objectives, and briefing senior or executive leadership on operational and strategic initiatives.

• Experience managing budgets, resource plans, vendors, and external partners in support of OT cybersecurity objectives.

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, GICSP, GRID, or equivalent.

• Skills:

• Knowledge of OT security frameworks, standards, and regulations including NIST 800-82, IEC 62443, ISA/IEC concepts, and applicable manufacturing control expectations.

• Strong technical leadership, people leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and program execution skills.

• Ability to establish new objectives, operating policies, standards, and processes that improve security and operational resilience.

• Ability to drive innovation, best-practice adoption, and knowledge sharing across a business area.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. a7 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Physical Job Requirements

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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. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.