Senior IT Business Analyst - M&A Functional Integration

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

As an IT Application Business Analyst in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures (MA&D), your primary role is in supporting the respective teams and stakeholders in delivering successful IT application initiatives within a complex and evolving business environment. This role is responsible for coordinating application-related tasks, performing business analysis, evaluating options, tracking project progress, and ensuring consistent communications across stakeholders during the MA&D process.

The role plays a key part in supporting the planning and execution of technology-related activities during a merger, acquisition, or divestiture. The focus is on ensuring a smooth application transition and contributing to the realization of benefits such as enhanced system integration, process efficiency, and overall operational effectiveness. Success in this role requires strong coordination and communication across cross-functional teams, including collaboration with project managers, business stakeholders, IT teams, and external partners, to ensure alignment with organizational goals and timelines.

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

• Engages with business leaders to understand how strategies and data-driven changes can improve efficiencies and add value.

• Work with data sets to define use cases to improve products, processes and/or services.

• Collaborates with Business Relationship Manager (BRM), business stakeholders and IT Product Owners / Managers to develop business requirements for product or system changes.

• Drives business agenda during solution delivery process.

• Functional Skills: Ability to analyze data and trends in order to develop recommendations to solve business problems.

• Additional Skills: Problem Solving, Detail Oriented, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer Service, Process Improvement, Communication.

• Technology: Understanding of systems, software and technological concepts, Familiarity with data analysis tools and data modeling methodologies.

• Conduct thorough IT due diligence to understand the technology infrastructure, systems, applications, and data of both the acquiring and target companies. Identify potential risks, synergies, costs, and integration challenges.

• Support the respective teams and stakeholders in coordinating integration activities across enterprise applications including SAP S/4HANA, Workday, Concur, and Salesforce (SFDC).

• Assist in conducting business analysis by gathering and documenting requirements for application-related changes and integrations.

• Develop a comprehensive IT integration plan that aligns with the overall business integration strategy. This plan should address technology consolidation, data migration, system compatibility, financial considerations, and workforce integration.

• Support respective teams and stakeholders, architect and lead the integration of IT systems including SAP ECC, S4HANA, Workday, Concur, Vendavo, SFDC, Compliance, Quality, Planning and Manufacturing systems. This includes determining target’s application disposition, migrating data, integrating applications, and ensuring seamless communication between different systems.

• Support test planning and execution, including writing test cases, coordinating UAT, and managing defects via JIRA or similar systems.

• Help identify and resolve integration challenges related to system compatibility, data flows, and user access.

• Assist in program delivery and value realization, delivering meaningful and measurable business outcomes.

• Build effective partnerships with IT Sr. Leaders, Corporate Development, and Program Management Leadership, business stakeholders, IT teams, and external partners, to ensure alignment with organizational goals and timelines.

• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration between IT, business users, and external vendors to ensure effective solution design and delivery. Coordinate closely with Deal Contracts and Agreements Manager.

• Track project progress using tools such as Excel, JIRA, Smartsheet, and MS Project, updating dashboards and progress reports.

• Assist the Project management and leadership in Maintain and update project documentation and knowledge repositories in Confluence or equivalent platforms.

• Assist with planning and logistics for cutover, go-live, and post-go-live support activities, especially in SAP-integrated environments.

• Collaborate with training and change management teams to support end-user readiness across platforms like Workday, Veeva, or ServiceNow.

• Prepare communication materials and executive updates summarizing project status, risks, milestones, and key decisions.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• 7+ years of progressive experience in in project coordination, business analysis, or application-related roles with a Bachelors Degree in engineering or MCA or MSc.​

• 5+ years of project and program management experience.

• Strong documentation, organizational, and communication skills.

• Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Excel, Planisware, JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, Smartsheet).

• Ability to understand the customer's business problem, need, or opportunity and to design a solution that completely and correctly addresses the business problem, need, or opportunity without unnecessary enhancements.

• Proven ability to work as a team player, delivering quality results within defined timelines.

• Understanding of application lifecycle processes and system integration concepts.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
  Nice to have:

• Exposure to large-scale applications or ERP integrations.

• Familiarity with SAP ERP and related modules (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC).

• Experience working with systems such as Workday, Concur, Ariba, Salesforce (SFDC), ServiceNow, Veeva, or similar platforms.

• Knowledge of core business processes (Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Record-to-Report, Hire-to-Retire).

• Experience with non-SAP enterprise tools such as Anaplan, Hyperion, JD Edwards, Oracle Cloud.

• Understanding of compliance and regulated environments, especially in medical device, pharmaceutical, or life sciences industries.

• Awareness of data migration, application compatibility, and workforce integration strategies.

• Familiarity with integration technologies or tools (e.g., APIs, middleware, ETL tools) is a plus.

• Knowledge of core business processes (O2C, P2P, R2R, MDM, MES, IBP/S&OP, Supply Chain, etc.) at global organizations and deployment in regional markets including APAC/Japan, EMEA, LATAM, NA/Canada.

• Experience planning and implementing SAP S/4 in brownfield and/or greenfield scenarios.

• Experience integrating with non-SAP technology platforms including JDA/BlueYonder, Anaplan, Hyperion, Critical Manufacturing or similar MES, SalesForce, etc.

• Experience with implementing medical device products including warrantee, service, and repairs.

• Experience implementing and adhering to FDA and computer systems validation requirements.

• Experience with Agile/Scrum or Waterfall project delivery methodologies.

• Demonstrated leadership in achieving shared objectives in a matrix organization, managing cross-divisional initiatives, and cross-functional teams.

• Highly organized, outcome oriented with excellent planning skills.

• Excellent leadership, presence, and executive communication skills (written and verbal).

• Influencing and diplomacy skills with an ability to lead and drive change in a collaborative, positive way.

• Must be a self-starter and driven. Must be able lead through ambiguity and act with urgency.

• Innovative thinking, strategic focus and aptitude that challenges the status quo.

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.


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

About Medtronic

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Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
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