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

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. This position is remote to enhance our competitive edge and expand our cross-functional collaboration efforts. This role will require 30% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

         

         

Careers that Change Lives

Across our global Neuroscience organization, we advance care for some of medicine’s most complex neurological and spinal conditions. By combining innovative technology, data-driven insights, and deep clinical expertise, we partner with physicians and health systems to improve how patients are treated and supported throughout their care journey.

Our Cranial & Spinal Technologies (CST) operating unit advances surgical care for spine and cranial conditions through an integrated ecosystem of implants, navigation, robotics, imaging, and planning tools. Platforms like AiBLE enhance precision, efficiency, and outcomes for complex procedures worldwide. Check us out on LinkedIn: Medtronic CST

Are you looking for a new and exciting opportunity to change the future of Spine Surgery?  Join Medtronic Spine and Biologics as Senior Program Manager, Marketing Operations with the Portfolio Strategy Marketing Team. This team works on unique projects across the portfolio to solve challenges within the business.  Critical work will focus on building a long-term product pipeline, driving marketing best practices, and collaborating with cross functional partners to drive product development from concept to commercialization. We are looking for a passionate, motivated, high energy, strategic marketer to lead new and innovative projects.  In this role you will manage the portfolio and pipeline for Core Spine & Biologics, contributing to the development of the strategy of the business.

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

• Leads and optimizes the PPM (Portfolio and Pipeline Management) process for all of Core Spine, assessing organic and inorganic opportunities

• Drives successful business decision making and launch planning by guiding product managers throughout the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to launch.

• Provides the marketing team with comprehensive governance training and support for new product innovations annually

• Collaborates with global marketers and cross functional partners to drive continuous innovation planning, ensuring alignment with patient needs and advancing product development strategies, promotional and educational strategies.

• Acts as the cross-functional touchpoint for global portfolio-level discussions, coordinating with teams across marketing, strategy, R&D, pricing, finance, regulatory, clinical, and medical education, ensuring successful program execution. 

• Collects and analyzes procedural market data, internal data and competitive intel, breaking them into actionable insights to support informed, data driven decision-making across the business.

• Creates and delivers strategic business presentations to support various portfolio opportunities  

• Aligns business development opportunities with business needs

• Travels up to 25-30%, primarily domestic

Must Have: Minimum Requirements
To be considered, these minimum requirements must be evident on your resume:

• Bachelor’s degree

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.

Nice to Have

• Degree in Business, Science, Technology, Engineering, or related field

• MBA in business or marketing

• 5+ years experience in a spine marketing role

• Familiarity with anatomy and pathology

• Experience in marketing, engineering, clinical, science, consulting, or technology

• Ability to multi-task while working in a fast-paced environment

• Experience learning technical products quickly 

• Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills: ability to convey complex information in a simple and effective manner

• Experience in an upstream marketing organization