We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 28 Feb 2026

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

Join Medtronic’s Neuromodulation and Pelvic Health team as a Principal Medical Science Liaison, where you will oversee relationships with key opinion leaders (KOLs), healthcare professionals, and other stakeholders, and support a wide array of initiatives to support professional society engagement and strategy design and implementation. Provide clinical and scientific support for Medtronic Neuromodulation products, ensuring accurate and balanced information is shared.

Key Responsibilities: Strategic Engagement & Implementation

• Implements strategic goals established by functional leadership.

• Manages large, moderately complex initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams, and adhering to timeline and budget.

• Works independently to implement strategic goals and establish operational plans.

• Assignments are often self-initiated. Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.

• Identifies and communicates novel evidence generation opportunities, including external research projects, collaborative research, real-world evidence, etc.

Stakeholder  & Society Engagement

• Nurtures deep, collegial relationships with key thought leaders and professional societies.

• Builds relationships and demonstrates the clinical outcome and benefits of company products to thought leaders, medical groups, government agencies, key opinion leaders and health systems, consumer-ready medical products by communicating product-related information to investigators and institutions.

• Supports continuing education workshops, seminars, and programs for graduate physicians, pharmacists, and scientists.

• Supports strategic planning for society engagements for Neuromodulation, including podium presence and evidence dissemination

• Ensures external research program (ERP) priorities are implemented and oversees milestones through close collaboration health care professionals.

Therapeutic Area Expertise

• Demonstrates extensive knowledge of all clinical and scientific data for our products and maintains a deep understanding of the science behind our products.

• Maintains, grows, and shares clinical and scientific knowledge of current trends in neuromodulation

Communication

• Provides perspective to field activities associated with growing existing products and bringing new products to market.

• Conducts briefings as required with senior leaders within the operating unit.

• Collaborates with others to reach understanding or agreement.

• Responsibilities may include the above and other duties may be assigned.

Onsite

This is an ONSITE position located in Fridley/Rice Creek, MN.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. We’re working onsite 4 days a week to drive performance, foster an environment of belonging, and collaborate to inspire as we engineer the extraordinary.

Travel: Requires ~50% travel domestic and international

Must-Have Qualifications

• Baccalaureate degree with a minimum 7 years of relevant experience,

• Or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree strongly preferred (PharmD, PhD, MD); Master’s or equivalent clinical/scientific background with a minimum of 5 years of experience.

• Proven project management experience

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills including experience presenting to executive leadership

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in matrixed environment

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Ability to interpret and communicate complex scientific information to diverse audiences

• Experience in healthcare, ideally within medical devices or regulated clinical research.

• Willingness to travel up to 50%

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):$162,400.00 - $243,600.00

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

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.

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 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.

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

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