We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 23 Aug 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

The Senior Director of Global Strategy for Acute Care and Monitoring will be a visionary, cross-functional leader responsible for shaping and executing the long-term strategic direction of the business. This individual will be tasked with generating deep business insights, drawing on models from diverse industries that have undergone successful software driven transformations, and applying those learnings to revolutionize the patient monitoring space. A key part of this role will be balancing the needs of today, rooted in a traditional capital and disposable based business model with the vision of tomorrow, where connected, software-enabled solutions redefine how care is delivered, and value is created.

This leader will work collaboratively across operating units and core functions (including Marketing, Finance, Sales, R&D, and Legal/Compliance) to drive portfolio strategy, guide investment decisions, and ensure execution of strategic initiatives that position the business for sustainable growth.

Given the transformative nature of this work, the position will have high visibility with senior leadership, operating unit executives, and global stakeholders across the organization. The position reports to the VP of Global Marketing and Strategy and will be a member of the Global Marketing Leadership team.

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. 

Strategic Planning Leader

• Accelerate growth: Map out the future steps to accelerate the growth trajectory of the business based on a deep understanding of current business and strategic objectives.  Identify, analyze, & present new businesses opportunities in line with the OU’s long-range strategy
• Transition Business model: Guiding the business through the transformation of traditional monitoring models into connected, software-enabled solutions that better meet the needs of patients, providers, and health systems
• Break down Silos: Collaborate with Marketing Franchise Leaders, Innovation Delivery and R&D to ensure cross portfolio strategic priorities are reflected in product strategy
• Play Big across Medtronic: Assess/ Identify and Champion the implementation of Patient Monitoring across therapy segments in conjunction with other OUs, recommend programs/projects and conceptualize/develop new approaches for integrating patent monitoring to alert for adverse advents and improve outcomes tailored for specific disease states
• Collaborate with technical product management: Work with the R&D teams to define product requirements and ensure alignment with market needs.

    

Portfolio Management Owner

• Develop and champion process for portfolio management
• Prioritize program initiatives and recommend resource allocation based on strategic/financial value and capacity
• Present opportunities and recommendations to senior management as a basis for strategic decision-making (i.e., financial metrics, competitive threats, pricing implications, research insights, and strategic business planning)
• Facilitate buy vs. build vs. partner decisions to expand the portfolio, enter white space opportunities, and leverage technologies across Medtronic 

    

Cross-Functional Team Participation & Leadership

• Lead cross-functional teams to optimize ACM’s strategy and executional plans around the business, market, and customer needs

• Create strong relationships with a broad set of stakeholders (e.g., senior leadership team, marketing, R&D, finance, clinical, regulatory, operations, health policy, and global leaders)

• Generate business plans, strategic requirements, and supporting financial models to align all functional groups behind a common vision and strategic imperative

• Work with global partners to understand unique customer/business needs, and ensure the strategy is aligned with the competitive/market opportunities based on quantitative and qualitative analyses

    

Voice of Customer – Internal and External Stakeholders

• Develop comprehensive plans for patient access acceleration, including