We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 19 Sep 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

In this exciting role as Sr. Principal Statistician - Diabetes Product Innovation, you will have responsibility for supporting Diabetes engineering teams in transforming the way we use data by applying your expertise in statistics and advanced analytics for process and product improvement and enabling our organization to make data-driven decisions.

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.

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

• Develops and/or applies statistical methods, software, and theories in industrial statistics.

• Utilizes complex statistical modeling to solve business problems and product development challenges.

• Interprets and applies data in complex analyses and explains findings to cross-functional audiences to improve innovation and sustain efforts.

• Writes procedures for quality systems tasks that have statistical requirements (for example, test method validation, design verification, process validation)

• Participates in reviewing, developing, and presenting statistics training material. 

• Supports standard statistical tools in the Diabetes business (for example, Minitab)

• Maintains proficiency in statistical techniques, programming, and data management best practices.

• Participates in the Global Industrial Statistics Community of Practice, supporting alignment on standards and expectations across the company.

• Ensure adherence to applicable procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high-quality work.

• Understand the various regulations we operate under in the medical device industry and ensure that the statistical methods applied align with regulatory bodies' expectations. 

Must Have (Minimum Requirements):

To be considered for this role, the minimum requirement must be evident on your resume.

Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 10 years of experience industrial statistician and or biostatistician

OR

 Advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of experience industrial statistician and or biostatistician

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Test Method Validation, Design Verification, Risk Assessment, Reliability Assessment + Growth strategies, and /or Process Validation

• Extensive and recent experience in the following: Statistical software: Minitab, SAS, JMP, and/or R

• Statistical methods (in particular: design of experiments, acceptance sampling, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis, reliability analysis, ANOVA, and regression)

• Demonstrated ability to communicate (written and verbal) technical content.

• MS or PhD degree in Statistics or equivalent

• Medical device domain knowledge Experience with Diabetes therapies/products Experience as a Statistician or Biostatistician at Medtronic or other medical device companies, or highly regulated industries, with support experience in regulatory body inquiries.

• Experience in regulatory compliance guidelines for medical devices (e.g. ISO, MDD/MDR, CFR)

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