Matthew Bell Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Mounds View, Minnesota, United States

• Lead enterprise-wide Global Supply Management sourcing best practices and standardization program initiatives via cross-functional teams to define, development and deploy standard work across Medtronic. Key focus areas.
• Leading Supplier Transfer Optimization Program development that successfully enabled $7.2M in early savings opportunities and 15-20% PPV improvements via strategic labels and corrugated transfers
• Team nominated for STAR Award for the development/deployment of new enterprise-wide Early Supplier Involvement and Supplier Selection process standardization
• Integrated developed supply management best practices (Supplier Selection, NPD Supply Risk, Supplier Launch Readiness and Supply Management Phase Gate Reviews) into 4 operating unit Phase Gate Processes
• Co-lead SI strategic program A3s that defined/developed NPD Supply Risk Assessment and NPD COGs Management playbooks
• Lead SRM project team that completed SRM system refresh, annual supplier stratification and relationship governance tools/templates and leadership training

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Manage global, diverse product development core teams to bring new medical devices from ideation to commercialization. Coordinated product development activities across technical and business functions.
• Lead 3 product development teams through successful Clinical Trial, FDA submission and Commercial Launch for Class II/III Devices

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Managed strategic business relationships and supply strategy for suspension supply chain, direct and sub-component suppliers, of 700M annual demand across 40+ configurations with $500M budget. Strategically led.
• Enabled a cumulative $50+M in spend reduction over a 3-year period through strategic sourcing and price negotiations; Achieved annual 2% Quarter on Quarter price reduction.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Selected by VP to serve as technical project and product development team lead of 6 engineers to launch new technical systems development that enabled new business venture - consigned manufacturing model - with TDK.
• Established new standard operating procedures for support data transfer and analysis systems, quality systems, and aligned engineering & supply chain processes to support the unique configuration’s volume production.
• Team recognized for Outstanding Achievement Award for successful systems deployment ahead of schedule – 9 months from inception to deployment

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Led Recording Head Operations / RHO Product Performance Analysis (Data Analytics) team of 10 engineers to access and analyze component data using variety of available software: SQL, eCube, Tableau, etc.
• Reset and executed team vision. Shifted away from analysis support role to analysis lead, though changing team culture re-established worldwide team collaboration and problem solving of product and factory performance.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Managed global, diverse product development teams of 12 design and process engineers, as well as interfaced with larger world wide professional staff. Coordinated product development activities across multiple.
• Lead product development for 5 product used in drive customer’s product portfolio using a Product Development Phase Gate Process (PDP).

Singapore

• Expatriated to Singapore for an international assignment to Singapore Drive Design Center to represent Recording Head Division on Drive Development Core Teams.
• Coordinated team activities/requirements, set priorities and resolved issues. Provided executive updates with Asia factories in Thailand, Malaysia, China and Singapore that enabled real-time decision making cutting.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Lead mechanical product design and integration of recording heads while meeting product schedule and required mechanical performance and reliability performance metrics.
• Successfully launched recording heads for 4 consecutive Consumer Electronics product portfolio. Successfully launched recording head into industries first 1” hard drives.

Bachelor'S Degree, Applied Physics, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Dean's List 6 quarters Resident Assistant (3 years) Football Team MemberPresident's Scholarship recipient..

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Completed two years of study for Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Education record