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A Day in the Life

We are hiring a Sr Product Manager (principal product specialist) to work in the fast-paced high-visibility Structural Heart Upstream Marketing Team focusing on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) pipeline and Transcatheter Pulmonic Valve (TPV) pipeline within Medtronics Structural Heart business. Structural Heart is one of Medtechs most exciting therapy areas and one of Medtronics most important growth drivers. This critical role will help to further accelerate Medtronics growth in this important market by defining shaping and executing the future product pipeline strategy.

A Day in a Life

• Be a therapy expert with comprehensive understanding of disease states current and emerging therapies existing and future technologies market trends barriers for new therapy adoption and unmet market needs
• Represent the upstream marketing function on product development teams supporting the development of best-in-class products; work closely with R&D clinical regulatory and other key functions to design and develop best-in-class products
• Collect analyze and summarize key customer insights through: Voice of Customer (VOC) and Voice of Business (VOB) practices
• Work with product development team members to translate unmet needs into new product requirements to support product development activities negotiating priorities and trade-offs necessary to meet technical and business goals
• Actively engage physician key opinion leaders (KOLs) current and potential customers internal stakeholders and third-party market research groups to identify key strategic areas of focus
• Develop comprehensive business plans to identify and evaluate new business opportunities
• Assess market opportunities through detailed market modeling defining unmet needs and value propositions monitoring competitive landscape understanding the technology landscape
• Define the future innovation and evidence pipeline and participate in strategic portfolio planning activities
• Deliver engaging presentations to internal business partners and external physician experts to articulate the therapy portfolio strategy

Other Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with key opinion leaders current and future customers and engage deeply with physicians on clinical scientific and market-related topics
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to execute projects with speed decisiveness and quality
• Identify and champion new and creative approaches to business operations and marketing opportunities and challenges.
• Provide senior management and cross-functional partners with updates reports content and presentations regarding marketing initiatives

Able to travel up to 35%

Must Have:

• Bachelors Degree
• 7 years in a marketing sales strategy or engineering role (5 years with Masters)
• Project management experience

Nice to Have:

• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong business and strategic acumen
• Excellent communication and relationship skills
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity

• MBA or technical Masters Degree
• Upstream/Strategic marketing experience including innovation and evidence pipeline and participate in portfolio planning activities
• Strong experience interfacing with physician customers both individually and in group settings
• Track-record and passion for effectively partnering with cross-functional teams
• Medical device or other healthcare industry experience

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.

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20 hours per week: Health Dental and vision insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple 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 matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital 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.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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 95000 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.

Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here.

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 addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.