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

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

• Formulates and reviews corporate short and long-range plans, goals, and objectives for specific product or product line.
• Conducts competitive product analysis and market research of product consumer behavior and professional audience.
• Determines the profitability and viability of new products or product enhancements.
• Develops production and marketing strategies and tactics to ensure effective product placement relative to market opportunity, working closely with product development for a specific product, brand, or product area over its entire life cycle.
• Works with other functions to finalize product specifications.
• Provides advertising with core brand equity.
• Serves as technical adviser, demonstrating products and troubleshooting product issues.

**PEOPLE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONAL CAREER STREAM: **Management and supervisory professionals with one or more employees who are focused on tactical, operational and some strategic activities within a specified area. Levels within the management career stream typically have six or more direct reports. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, managing performance, developing talent, engagement and inclusion, communicating business and operational developments, planning, prioritizing and / or directing the responsibilities of direct reports. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and / or indirect reports. A key responsibility of roles in this career stream is managing people. which includes: accountability for mentoring, developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives, providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives to include defining performance goals and targets, conducting performance reviews, and staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals.

**DIFFERENTIATING FACTORSAutonomy: **Manages subordinate supervisors and/or experienced professionals who exercise latitude and independence in assignments.
Provides tactical and / or operational leadership and coaching.
Receives assignments in task and objective oriented terms.

**Organizational Impact: **Establishes operational plans and implements policies and strategies.
Decisions impact program schedules, customer satisfaction levels, or allocation of time, material resources, expenditures and funds.
May have budget or P&L accountability for a department, function or geography.
Strive for continuous improvement and consistency in deliverables.

**Innovation and Complexity: **Proposes modifications to functional operating policies and day-to-day processes.
Problems and issues faced are complex, difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.

**Communication and Influence: **Communicates with internal and external customers and vendors regarding ongoing operations.
Uses information exchange, influence and active persuasion without direct exercise of command to gain cooperation of other parties .
May interact on issues that have externally shared objectives.

**Leadership and Talent Management: **Manages a team consisting of supervisors and / or experienced professionals in the Specialist career stream.
Leads, directs and reviews the work of a team who exercise latitude and independence in their assignments.
Authorizes hiring, firing, promotion and reward within own area.

**Required Knowledge and Experience: **Requires practical knowledge in leading and managing the execution of processes, projects and tactics within one job area.
Typically has advanced knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with understanding of the impact of work on other areas of the organization.
Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 5 years relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years prior relevant 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.

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.

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