We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 10 Nov 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

Medtronic Diabetes is seeking an experienced Senior Director of Training & Development to lead the transformation of learning and development (L&D) across the Americas region. This strategic leadership role is responsible for designing and executing a high-impact learning ecosystem that leverages cutting-edge technology, AI-powered tools, digital content, and remote learning platforms to drive commercial excellence. The leader will have strategic foresight, operational discipline, and inspirational leadership, with proven experience in building high-performing teams, optimizing training delivery at scale, and aligning learning initiatives to broader business goals.

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.

This position location preferred in San Antonio, TX

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

• Develops overall organizational training and development roadmap.
• Works across the matrixed organization to understand the vision, mission, and needs to create and execute a strategic plan to meet or exceed organizational goals.
• Obtains information needed to prepare in-house training programs; prepares training materials; develops course content; determines methodology; and coordinates the development of training aids.
• Ensures training program(s) meets company and customer objectives through measured KPIs/OKRs.
• Maintains communication with customers to ensure effectiveness of training. 
• Hire, retain, and lead a team of professional trainers with technical expertise.
• Continuously improve lesson plans to meet new training requirements and to keep technical information up to date.

Leadership

• Accountable for leading teams through an engaged blend of strategic, operational, and tactical activities within training and development.
• The Senior Director will oversee multiple managers or large, complex teams, often with six or more direct reports and broader indirect influence across the organization.
• A significant portion of time is devoted to shaping functional direction, overseeing execution of strategic priorities, and ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide goals.
• Senior Director is responsible for organizational performance, workforce planning, and structural optimization, as well as developing and executing plans that drive business outcomes and elevate team capability.
• This responsibility will span the Americas with close partnership and coordination with the International team.

Autonomy:

• Leads with strategic independence, designing and executing enterprise-wide learning initiatives that align directly with organizational goals while minimizing reliance on day-to-day oversight.
• Empowers cross-functional teams to innovate and implement scalable training programs, fostering accountability and ownership at every level of the organization.
• Exercises sound judgment and data-driven decision-making to prioritize resources, measure impact, and continuously evolve the learning strategy in response to business needs.

Organizational Impact

• Elevated workforce capability and performance across the Americas by developing a cohesive training strategy that aligned regional needs with global priorities, driving measurable improvements in productivity and customer experience.

• Build a culture of continuous learning and leadership readiness, enabling talent mobility and succession across multiple functions and geographies.
• Delivered scalable, data-driven enablement programs that accelerated onboarding, improved sales effectiveness, and reduced time-to-proficiency for critical roles.
• Partnered with executive and business leaders to translate strategic goals into actionable development initiatives, ensuring organizational readiness to achieve gr