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At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.

Join one of the fastest growing businesses in medical devices and play a pivotal role in shaping how we train certify and empower our field teams. As Senior Director of Training & Education you will set the end to end strategy and lead execution of world class product sales and service training programs that directly enable customer success and business growth.

You will build scalable training pathways partner closely with curriculum and product teams to continuously evolve content and use data driven insights to measure effectiveness and inform leadership. This role offers a rare opportunity to build and lead a high impact team of technical trainers influence enterprise strategy and create innovative learning experiences that accelerate readiness confidence and performance across a rapidly expanding organization.

Ideally candidate would be based on the Minneapolis MN area - but will consider remote capacity.

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

• Provides leadership of sales and service training and education department including people and program leadership.
• Responsible for end-to-end strategy and execution including planning and forecasting training certifying and upskilling mapping specialists.
• Responsible for leading a high performing team including attracting inspiring coaching developing managing performance and rewarding outcomes. Fostering a culture of accountability continuous improvement and collaboration.
• Responsible for setting tracking and reporting analytics required for leadership communication and evaluating training effectiveness. Partner with IT to advance and streamline reporting and analytics.
• Plans develops and coordinates in-house and field-based product and sales training programs for CAS field personnel.
• Partner with curriculum development team for seamless integration of new products and continuous improvement in training materials and resources
• Develops and manages sales and service training pathways
• Obtains information needed to prepare training programs; prepares training pathways and materials; develops course content; determines methodology; and coordinates the development of training aids.
• Ensures training program(s) meets company CAS OU and customer objectives.
• Leads communication with leadership customers and trainees to ensure effectiveness of training.
• Conducts reviews with business leadership on training strategy and execution.
• Partner with sales to create and advance training pathways for sales reps including training and territory and selling skills.
• Implements continuous improvement mindset and strategies; leads team to revise plans to meet new training requirements and to keep technical information up to date.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements: To be considered for this role please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.

• Requires a Bachelors degree with 15 years of relevant experience including 10 years of managerial experience OR an advanced degree with 13 years of relevant experience including 10 years of managerial experience.

Desired/Preferred Qualifications:

• Medical related training and education
• Managing people and budgets
• Executive level communications
• Cross-functional collaboration or navigating a matrix organization
• Setting strategy and planning work
• Demonstrated success in building motivating and coaching a team
• Analytical and critical thinking skills. Ability to understand and work with data to provide direction and perspective to the team and to leader stakeholders.

• Ability to adapt and change within dynamic corporate and business environment
• Ability to drive decision making and shape strategy
• Innovative approach and mindset
• Demonstrated success in developing relationships with commercial and filed teams colleagues and customers.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams
• Strong organizational skills. Ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to manage multiple products / projects
• Excellent interpersonal selling communication and presentation skills
• Strong computer skills including word-processing spreadsheets e-mail and the effective use of presentation software
• Independence energy and positive attitude

Physical Job Requirements:

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. (ADA-United States of America).

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. Learn more about our benefits here.

In addition to Base Salary this position is eligible for a long-term incentive plan which provides the opportunity to earn significant incentive compensation for achieving or exceeding your goals. Learn more about Medtronic Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) here.

The provided base salary range is used nationally in the United States (except in Puerto Rico and certain CA locations). The rate offered is compliant with federal/local regulations and may vary by experience certification/education market conditions location etc.

About Medtronic:

Together we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic we push the limits of what technology therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be. We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Lets work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients lives. Help us shape the future.

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

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.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At Medtronic we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B TN J etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

Join us in our mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend lifewhere your unique background and perspective are valued.

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):$207200.00 - $310800.00

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

This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.

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 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.