We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 22 May 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

The Sr Dir Strategic Marketing & Market Development will shape enterprise-wide portfolio strategy, capital allocation, and growth priorities across high-impact therapies, technologies, and emerging business models. This leader will identify and evaluate transformative opportunities that address major unmet needs, translating market insights into differentiated product, service, and commercial strategies.

The role requires a strong blend of strategic thinking, market development, innovation leadership, and financial acumen to guide programs from concept through commercialization planning while optimizing speed to market and long-term enterprise value.

         

         

Key responsibilities

• Shape enterprise-wide portfolio roadmap and capital allocation strategy focused on high-growth markets, breakthrough therapies, and emerging technologies.

• Lead transformative strategic initiatives that advance the company’s long-term mission, growth objectives, and innovation agenda.

• Identify and prioritize indications, unmet clinical and stakeholder needs, and care pathway opportunities to define differentiated value propositions.

• Shape new product, service, and business opportunities through deep market and customer insight.

• Define patient segmentation, positioning, product-market fit, pricing strategy, and business models to maximize commercial success.

• Assess competitive landscapes, market dynamics, emerging technologies, and ecosystem trends to inform strategic decision-making.

• Develop robust financial models and business cases to support investment decisions, portfolio prioritization, and growth strategies. Scope and architect programs to create market-winning solutions while minimizing development timelines and accelerating time to market.

• Partner cross-functionally across R&D, clinical, commercial, corporate strategy, business development, finance, and executive leadership teams to align strategy with execution.

• Influence senior leadership through data-driven recommendations, strategic frameworks, and executive-level communications.

• Work with external ecosystem partners to develop innovative partnership models, strategic alliances, and collaborative business structures that accelerate strategy execution and market adoption.

Must Have

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 15 years of relevant experience with 10+ years of managerial experience (people or program), or advanced degree with a minimum 13 years prior relevant experience, minimum of 10 years of managerial experience (people or program).

Nice to Have

• MBA

• Experience in emerging therapies and technologies, particularly in early-stage voice-of-customer research, defining product, market development and commercialization planning

• Upstream marketing and strategy experience

• Background in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), neuromodulation, or broader neuroscience-focused innovations

• Experience building and scaling new markets, including patient engagement, advocacy, and ecosystem development

• Exposure to enterprise-level portfolio strategy or corporate strategy functions

• Exposure to healthcare innovation, medical technology development, and human-centered design

• Strong understanding of healthcare markets, reimbursement dynamics, and care delivery models

• Comfort influencing senior executive stakeholders in highly matrixed, global organizations

• Consulting experience on corporate strategy and operations

• Track record of partnering cross-functionally to advance programs from concept through early commercialization

• Experience operating in high-growth, ambiguous environments with a strong test-and-learn mindset

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

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