We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 26 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 

 

The Medical Surgical Portfolio strives to enable earlier diagnosis, better treatment, faster complication-free recovery, and enhanced patient outcomes through less invasive surgical solutions. 

 

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion health care access to therapies that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.  You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.  

A Day in the Life  

 

The Health Economics, Policy, and Reimbursement (HEPR) Director leads the development and execution of strategies to achieve market access and demonstrate therapy value in order to expand patient access to Medtronic Surgical therapies in the US and globally.   The Surgical HEPR Director reports to the Sr. Director, HEPR, Surgical.    

 

The Health Economics, Policy, and Reimbursement (HEPR) Director will serve in a highly visible and impactful role to support global reimbursement strategy development, new business development, evidence planning, and product launch support for the respective therapies in the Medical Surgical portfolio.  

 

This leadership position will be focused on understanding and communicating the global clinical and economic evidence requirements for gaining market access and sustainable payments. This individual will also develop and communicate business unit and therapy-specific global reimbursement strategy to include all coding, coverage, and payment considerations.  

 

This position collaborates with regional and local country reimbursement and market access colleagues (including the US market) to support the establishment and maintenance of reimbursement and coverage in target geographies and support the execution of reimbursement strategic plans. Working with our global and European teams, this individual is responsible for developing and executing global and geography-specific strategic plans to meet payer and provider stakeholder requirements for reimbursement.  

 

In this role, the incumbent will partner with members of the Surgical HEPR team, Corporate Health Policy and Payment leaders, and operating unit, region, country, and functional leaders to adopt the long-term clinical and economic evidence strategy required to obtain and maintain reimbursement by country.  

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 position can be based in Minneapolis, MN (Mounds View), Lafayette, CO, North Haven, CT or Boston, MA.

 

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

 

• Manages and provides guidance to the Surgical HEPR team regarding strategic reimbursement direction and initiatives aligned with key business priorities.  

• Creates and executes comprehensive market access strategies by integrating reimbursement, health technology assessment, evidence-based medicine review, pricing, and health economic modeling activities.  

• Designs, develops, and implements an integrated approach to all aspects of the payer value proposition from early development through and beyond the loss of exclusivity.  

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