Job Details

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 8 May 2025

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

At Medtronic, you can be gin 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.

Join our global Aortic Strategic Marketing Team!

We are seeking a driven, passionate, and global-minded Sr Global Strategic Product Specialist to support the transformation of our Aortic business. This role will enable the future of our aortic business and reports directly to the Global Strategic Marketing Sr Group Manager. You will lead global product management and connectivity driving demand alignment, product risk mitigation, and product lifecycle execution in support of our vision to advance aortic patient care globally. Your work will have a global impact by ensuring life-saving aortic products are available when and where patients need them. Your leadership will play a key role in advancing our Aortic Vision, ensuring clear, consistent communication across regions to support optimal patient care worldwide.

Why Join Us? The Aortic Business is integral to Medtronic's mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for patients with aortic disease globally. We are committed to advancing aortic patient care globally with evidence-based, intelligent solutions throughout the disease continuum.

A Day in the Life

Lead Development of Product Strategy

• Define and communicate global product strategy for life-saving aortic devices, ensuring alignment with Medtronic's Aortic Vision and broader business objectives

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., R&D, marketing, regulatory, and supply chain) to develop a comprehensive strategy for product availability, demand forecasting, and lifecycle management

• Drive data-driven decision-making by analyzing market trends, patient needs, and demand signals to shape and refine product strategies across the world

• Ensure strategic alignment between product development, supply chain operations, and commercial teams to deliver consistent messaging and maximize global reach

• Refine and implement global communication framework to keep internal stakeholders informed on product status, market conditions, and resource allocation, ensuring all teams are aligned on product needs and priorities

• Leverage insights from product performance and market feedback to continuously adjust and optimize product strategies, ensuring products are positioned to meet patient needs and market demands globally

• Influence executive leadership and key stakeholders through strategic recommendations and presentations, driving alignment on product priorities and investment decisions

Develop Advanced Analytics and Market Insights

• Analyzes market trends to anticipate product demand needs and communicates regularly with supply chain & operations

• Develop predictive models and analytics frameworks to assess market share and product performance post-quarter, driving strategic adjustments and business optimization

• Provide actionable, data-driven insights to senior leadership, guiding product lifecycle management (i.e. rationalization, expansion, etc.), resource allocation, and market positioning

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on data insights, driving operational execution and strategic decisions across regions

Competitive Intelligence

• Integrate insights from market feedback and competitive intelligence to continuously refine product strategies and align with evolving market needs

• Understands and analyzes the competitive landscape to drive insights as it relates to traditional and emerging global competitors

• Stays current on key clinical literature and competitive activities and communicates important findings to relevant stakeholders and functional partners

• Keeps current on new and competitive technology offerings in the marketplace

Foster Collaboration

• Build a robust stakeholder network for seamless cooperation

• Align with key geographies and functional partners to create strong product management community

• Ensure consistent (i.e., weekly, monthly, and quarterly) alignment with cross-functional and geographic partners to share best practices, tools, and drive global coordination

• Ensure all product and communication activities are compliant with regulatory & compliance standards

• Regularly evaluate and improve process efficiency

Additional Dimensions

• This role is considered remote, but based in US market

• Physical office location is in Santa Rosa, CA for candidates with desire to work within office setting

• It may require >20% travel

Must Haves

• Language: Fluency in English

• Education: Bachelor's degree in marketing, business administration, communications, or related disciplines

• Experience: >4 years of professional experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience

• Product Management Expertise: Ability to lead cross-functional teams, prioritize initiatives, and drive successful product development and lifecycle management

• Communication: Effective communication skills, including delivering impactful messages, establishing trust, and building relationships

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Ability to analyze data and make informed decisions

• Leadership: Experience in successfully leading teams (directly or indirectly) to deliver results

Nice to Haves

• Excellent communication skills in English

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, maintaining positive relationships with others as well as developing trust

• Self-starter with a proven capacity to adapt quickly

• Ability to make effective, thoughtful, and timely decisions in autonomous manner

• Tolerance for uncertainty

• Capacity to identify and pursue relentlessly new opportunities for growth

• Strong ability to influence marketing activity execution

• Experience leading market analysis and modeling

• Strategic thinking to analyze a situation and determine the best course of action

• Ability to prioritize and complete simultaneous projects with minimal or no supervision

• Ability to work transversally with internal stakeholders to create an aligned strategy

Join us in Medtronic Aortic as we advance aortic patient care globally with evidence-based, intelligent solutions throughout the disease continuum.

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. 

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.

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$115,200.00 - $172,800.00

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

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

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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.

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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.

We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That's who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world . Here, it's about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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