We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 17 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

Careers that Change Lives

Come join our rapidly growth Pelvic Health (PH) Upstream Marketing Team. We are hiring a driven, enthusiastic, and global-minded Strategic Planning Associate to work in a fast-paced Upstream Marketing Team. This role will be focused on supporting the development and execution of long-range marketing objectives and strategic plans of the PH therapy portfolio. This role will report to the Pelvic Health Global Strategy, Growth, and Portfolio Development Marketing Manager.

You will collaborate with a team of upstream marketers and global cross functional partners to identify internal and external strategic signals that could affect organization growth and profitability.  In this role, you will help shape the PH Operating Unit (OU) strategic goals, unlock growth potential, analyze the direct and adjacent competition, monitor the external environment for business opportunities and deliver clear and succinct financial analyses which support recommendations to implement strategic and operational plans.  This role will also be responsible for planning and coordinating business reviews with a focus on executing and advancing the Pelvic Health revenue growth pipeline and long-term strategy. 

In this role, you will develop and maintain strong relationships with partners in global sales and marketing, health economics & reimbursement, finance, as well as other cross-functional experts across the PH. This role is highly visible to the PH OU senior leadership and global physician thought leaders. This role is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  

A Day in the Life

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

• Preparing presentations and supporting materials to align Medtronic executive leaders with the PH OU pipeline strategy, supporting core team phase reviews, and facilitating the annual PH strategic planning process. 

• Building deep expertise in current and adjacent disease states relevant to male and female pelvic health as well as therapies related to the Pelvic Health Operating Unit’s core technologies.  

• Understanding the direct and indirect competitive landscape which may include accessing the threat of newly generated clinical evidence data, recent technological advancements, and changing market dynamics which could impact the PH performance and growth.  

• Generating opportunity assessments for business development activities and evaluating strategic targets through detailed quantitative and qualitative market modeling.  

• Identifying areas for operational excellence and process improvement within the PH marketing team to drive efficiency and consistency.  

• Analyzing and summarizing key customer needs through: Voice of Customer (VOC) and Voice of Business (VOB) research which may include passive engagement with key opinion leaders, current and potential customers, and internal stakeholders via advisory boards, industry conferences, one-on-one engagements, and third-party market research. 

• Developing and maintaining relationships with customers and key opinion leaders.  

• Developing relationships with internal sales personnel to understand their perspectives, their needs and their ideas to inform PH strategy and program requirements.   

• Ability to travel up to 10% of time. 

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree

• Must have 2 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of experience. 

Nice to Have

• Strong analytical and quantitative capabilities including proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Power BI and other quant-based systems. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Economics, Health Care Management, Finance or a related field; Master’s in Business Administration or Master’s in Health Administration is a plus.  

• Experience in consulting, medical device or healthcare adjacent industry. 

• Leadership or project management experience and ability to work with cross-functional teams. 

• Strategy and business development experience including portfolio and product planning.  

• Experience interfacing with health care providers both individually an