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

The Principal Health Economics & Outcomes Research Specialist will provide strategic direction to develop a key component of the US Market Access plan for the innovative products in Diabetes Operating Unit (OU). In addition, the Principal HEOR specialist will generate evidence that will impact Market Access decisions regarding Medtronic Diabetes devices. The successful candidate will provide support on the design, execution, and dissemination of HEOR studies to meet the business evidence strategy needs. In this role, you will advise and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders including reimbursement, healthcare policy, marketing, payer marketing, medical affairs, and other functions. Responsibilities may include providing input on clinical trial design, Real World Evidence (RWE) generation and communication.

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.

• Works closely with the other functions within the Market Access team to support the development of evidence that will improve the understanding of the treatment of diabetes and will demonstrate the value of Medtronic’s extensive diabetes profile. The data generated should inform strategic internal decisions as well as Health Care Decision Makers (HCDMs) to communicate the value of devices and therapeutics within the Medtronic Diabetes OU.
• Develops US specific evidence to meet requirements for optimal reimbursement coverage and usage. Collaborates closely with reimbursement experts within the HEPR team to identify evidence needed and synergies.
• Designs and implements observational and economic research studies or economic models that provide value, perspective and evidence for clinical and/or pre-clinical product portfolio decisions, marketing, regulatory agency submissions, and product reimbursement strategies.
• Conducts both systematic and targeted literature searches that will be foundational to the development of Value Dossiers in the AMCP 5.0 format for specific products/therapies.
• Compares and evaluates the value of Medtronic’s products and therapies versus the other products in the market basket with respect to the clinical, economic, and outcomes data from clinical trials and Real-World Evidence studies including, epidemiology studies, registries, observational studies, modeling, surveys, and meta-analysis.
• Collaborates with the Clinical Development team to ensure that an integrated evidence plan including Real-World Evidence is available at launch to support FDA approval and formulary coverage.
• Provides strategic support to the Diabetes business unit in the areas of health economics and claims data analysis.  
• Maintains a comprehensive knowledge of the evidence needed to inform Health Care Decision Makers in order to ensure that the evidence generated by Medtronic is relevant for payers across all books of business including, Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, as well as those of CMS.
• Prepares observational and economic research study results for dissemination via abstract, presentation, and/or peer-reviewed publication.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of relevant experience in the healthcare industry
• Or, Master’s degree and 5+ years of relevant experience in the healthcare industry

Nice To Have

• Degree in PharmD, Master’s degree, or PhD in epidemiology, health economics, biostatistics, public health

• An understanding of US health insurance and the U.S. health care payment system

• Project management experience; demonstrated consultative mindset

• Proven ability to work effectively in a high