We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 15 Dec 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

Join Medtronic’s Neuromodulation and Pelvic Health team as a Principal Medical Science Liaison, where you will oversee relationships with key opinion leaders (KOLs), healthcare professionals, and other stakeholders, and support a wide array of initiatives to support professional society engagement and strategy design and implementation. Provide clinical and scientific support for Medtronic Neuromodulation products, ensuring accurate and balanced information is shared.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Engagement & Implementation

• Implements strategic goals established by functional leadership.

• Manages large, moderately complex initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams, and adhering to timeline and budget.

• Works independently to implement strategic goals and establish operational plans.

• Assignments are often self-initiated. Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.

• Identifies and communicates novel evidence generation opportunities, including external research projects, collaborative research, real-world evidence, etc.

Stakeholder  & Society Engagement

• Nurtures deep, collegial relationships with key thought leaders and professional societies.

• Builds relationships and demonstrates the clinical outcome and benefits of company products to thought leaders, medical groups, government agencies, key opinion leaders and health systems, consumer-ready medical products by communicating product-related information to investigators and institutions.

• Supports continuing education workshops, seminars, and programs for graduate physicians, pharmacists, and scientists.

• Supports strategic planning for society engagements for Neuromodulation, including podium presence and evidence dissemination

• Ensures external research program (ERP) priorities are implemented and oversees milestones through close collaboration health care professionals.

Therapeutic Area Expertise

• Demonstrates extensive knowledge of all clinical and scientific data for our products and maintains a deep understanding of the science behind our products.

• Maintains, grows, and shares clinical and scientific knowledge of current trends in neuromodulation

Communication

• Provides perspective to field activities associated with growing existing products and bringing new products to market.

• Conducts briefings as required with senior leaders within the operating unit.

• Collaborates with others to reach understanding or agreement.

• Responsibilities may include the above and other duties may be assigned.

Onsite

This is an ONSITE position located in Fridley/Rice Creek, MN.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. We’re working onsite 4 days a week to drive performance, foster an environment of belonging, and collaborate to inspire as we engineer the extraordinary. 

Travel: Requires ~50% travel domestic and international

Must-Have Qualifications

• Baccalaureate degree with a minimum 7 years of relevant experience,

• Or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree strongly preferred (PharmD, PhD, MD); Master’s or equivalent clinical/scientific background with a minimum of 5 years of experience.

• Proven project management experience

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills including experience presenting to executive leadership

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in matrixed environment

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Ability to interpret and communicate complex scientific information to diverse audiences

• Experience in healthcare, ideally within medical devices or regulated clinical research.

• Willingness to travel up to 50%

Physical Job Requirements

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