We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 8 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

Our Cardiac Rhythm Management integrated Operating Unit offers devices and therapies that treat patients with abnormal heart rhythms and heart failure. It is comprised of three key businesses: Cardiac Pacing Therapies, Defibrillation Solutions, and Cardiovascular Diagnostics & Services. Together, we will transform the lives of people with cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

This role will be base in Mounds View, MN.

The Senior Market Access Specialist is responsible for understanding the US healthcare market and working to remove patient access barriers.  This position is focused on driving commercialization and dissemination of reimbursement and healthcare economic information for the Cardiac Rhythm Management operating unit. The Market Access Consultant serves as a key strategic partner to the Cardiac Rhythm Management business including Marketing and Clinical, and also partners with Health Economic and Reimbursement colleagues across Medtronic.

In this role, you will work with internal and external stakeholders to develop and execute strategies to remove patient access barriers. You will partner with other members of the Health Economics, Policy & Reimbursement team as well as external customers to develop market access strategies and resources for products and procedures within Cardiac Rhythm Management. You will assess the market dynamics and economic value of new technologies, develop strategies to demonstrate and communicate that value, and develop tools and materials to bring this information to customers. The Sr. Market Access Specialist understands the U.S. reimbursement systems, U.S. hospitals, and broader healthcare landscape; they have experience with healthcare data analytics and value analysis to drive commercialization and adoption of key products.

The Senior Market Access Specialist may be accountable for informing and educating Cardiac Rhythm leadership, Operating Units, Strategy Teams, and Field Teams of market dynamics related to reimbursement and health economics. This position is also responsible for understanding and articulating the impact of reimbursement, the healthcare environment and other policy initiatives on both CRM businesses and their products, and our hospital, physician, and payer stakeholders.

This individual reports to the Director, Market Access for the Cardiac Rhythm Management Operating Unit.

Role and Responsibilities:

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

• Provides reimbursement-related education and/or advice to product development teams, marketing, sales, regulatory, clinical and business leaders.
• Identifies payer opportunities and issues and implements programs to resolve/decrease barriers to entry for the company's products or therapies.
• Works closely with Strategic Reimbursement colleagues to understand the reimbursement landscape of therapies/products, and to develop educational collateral for customers.
• Works closely with Health Economics and Outcomes Research colleagues to evaluate the economic impact of the use of therapies/products on payers, including the government.
• Create training and deliver education programs to sales force, physicians, hospital administrators, medical directors, and billing personnel.
• Creation and packaging of reimbursement and economic messages and materials that resonate with different stakeholders and customer segments, including topics such as reimbursement, health policy, procedure and program economics, and product value analysis.
• Lead education activities for both the field economic team and the broader sales organizations focused on economics to support product launches, new indications and dissemination of new evidence.
• Collaborate with Economic Research, Health Policy, and Marketing teams to ensure alignment on new evidence, economic messaging and integration with p