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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 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.

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 are working onsite a minimum of 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

         

         

A Day in the Life

The Senior Director, Marketing – New Product Introduction (NPI) is responsible for leading global launch strategy and commercialization planning for new products. This role ensures innovations successfully transition from development to market by driving launch excellence, cross-functional readiness, and effective global-to-regional commercialization.

The leader will partner with upstream marketing, R&D, Sales, Market Access, and Operations teams to ensure new products are introduced effectively and achieve strong market adoption.

Key responsibilities

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

• Lead global commercialization strategy and launch planning for new products across the portfolio.

• Develop and implement standardized launch frameworks, processes, and best practices.

• Drive cross-functional launch readiness across marketing, sales, supply chain, regulatory, and operations teams.

• Translate product strategy into actionable go-to-market plans including segmentation, positioning, pricing strategy, and launch campaigns.

• Partner with regional marketing teams to ensure effective global-to-local execution of launch strategies.

• Lead development of launch assets including marketing materials, clinical messaging, training programs, and sales enablement tools.

• Monitor launch performance and market adoption, adjusting strategies to accelerate growth and penetration.

• Ensure alignment between launch timelines, product availability, and supply chain readiness.

• Lead post-launch reviews to capture insights and continuously improve launch processes.

• Build and develop a high-performing team focused on launch excellence and commercialization.         

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

Requires a Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 15 years of relevant experience with 10+ years of managerial experience (people or program), or advanced degree with a minimum 13 years prior relevant experience, minimum of 10 years of managerial experience (people or program).

Nice to Have:

• MBA or advanced degree.

• Demonstrated success leading global product launches in medical technology or healthcare.

• Strong experience developing go-to-market strategies and commercialization plans.

• Experience working cross-functionally with R&D, operations, regulatory, and sales teams.

• Strong project management and cross-functional leadership capabilities.

• Experience operating within complex global organizations.

• Ability to travel as necessary to conduct business, attend meetings and conferences.

• Experience working in highly matrixed, global organizations.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly require