We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 27 Jun 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

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.

Peripheral Vascular Health (PVH) is an exciting and dynamic business with annual revenue exceeding $1 billion and many high growth segments/therapy areas.  There are significant clinical unmet needs and many promising potential solutions that need to be evaluated and/or advanced.

The Peripheral Vascular Health (PVH) Upstream Marketing Principal Product Specialist will help shape the future of this business by assessing opportunities to identify both short and long-term plans, goals, and objectives for a specific product line or therapy space.  This will involve conducting market research and competitive product analysis to identify unmet patient/customer needs as well as assessing market viability and ultimate profitability of various opportunities.  The role will report into the Sr. Manager of Pipeline Marketing within the Peripheral Vascular Health operating unit.

Responsibilities:

• Represent the marketing function as a team member on new product development teams.
• Monitor competitive landscape and anticipate movement that may impact market dynamics.
• Proactively develop strategies to combat competitive activity.  At times this will involve conducting competitive product analysis and market research of product consumer behavior and professional audience.
• Work to determine the profitability and viability of new products or product iterations/enhancements.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with KOLs and physicians that can be leveraged to support VoC and opportunity assessments as well as providing insight into market dynamics.  Interface with this network of KOLs to identify key strategic area of focus and obtain feedback regarding current and future product opportunities.
• Promote PVH Pipeline by actively engaging customers (internal and external) to increase awareness of current and potential development activity.
• Serve as technical adviser, demonstrating products and troubleshooting product issues.
• Establish strong working relationships with other functions impacting pipeline marketing activities (Strategy, BD, R&T/R&D, Downstream Marketing, Medical Science, Finance, Clinical, Regulatory, Commercial Sales, etc.) to translate customer requirements into meaningful projects/products while negotiating trade-offs necessary to meet technical feasibility and customer requirements.
• Foster a diverse and inclusive workplace that enables high performance, enriches PVH culture, spurs innovation and strengthens relationships with colleagues, communities, and customers.
• Build quality into all aspects of work by maintaining compliance to all quality requirements.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 7 years’ experience in a marketing, sales, strategy, finance or related field, Or 5 years with advanced degree.

Desired/Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (MBA, MS, or PhD)
• Knowledge of Cardiovascular/Diagnostic markets, customers, and products
• Project management, program design and execution
• Has worked in or with geographies outside of the United States
• Analytical ability to identify and think through all issues in order to determine their impacts on the business
• Ability to navigate ambiguity & define own strategies, priorities, KPIs…etc.
• Strong business storytelling skills; comfort presenting to leadership
• Relationship management prowess: customers, KOLs, field reps, fellow core team members
• Adaptability: an interest or ability to flex further up- or down-stream as needed (Diligence, Commercial or Market Development Plans…etc.)
• Ability to influence without authority
• Market modeling and business acumen
• Curiosity and humility – You won’t be the expert on everything, but need to learn a lot and do it very quickly

Physical requirement:

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally in support of customer engagements and

internal Medtronic activities.