Job Description
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 1 Jun 2026
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
As a Senior Business Data Product Owner, you will help advance Medtronic’s mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life by ensuring product teams have the right data, at the right time, to deliver meaningful business and patient outcomes.
Within the Pricing & Contracting (P&C) Agile model, this role serves as the business owner for data enablement across the value stream. You will work across product teams, business stakeholders, and IT to ensure data supports value-based decision-making and accountability. This includes developing a deep understanding of the end-to-end value stream, identifying where data is required to support product outcomes, and making informed business decisions on data priorities, tradeoffs, and impacts. You will partner closely with IT—particularly the IT Data Product Owner (Data Architect)—in a 2-in-a-box model, owning business decisions related to data while contributing to design discussions, feasibility assessments, and sequencing. While you do not build data platforms or pipelines, you ensure that data effectively supports product delivery, value measurement, and decision-making across pods.
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.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
Business Ownership of Data Across the Value Stream
Responsible for business decisions related to data used across the product value stream
Collaborate with Value Stream Leader(s), P&C Leadership, and other stakeholder’s to understand value stream data needs
Understand how data flows across systems, products, and processes
Assess business impacts, dependencies, and tradeoffs of data‑related decisions
Enabling Product Teams with Data
Facilitate cross P&C discussions to define Data Product standards and designs, in close collaboration with Product Owners and Architects
Partner with Product Owners to co-own identification and prioritization of all data-related work across Agile PODS initiatives and features with support from P&C Leadership
Support teams to make sure they have data to measure value, outcomes, and adoption
Enable consistent, fact‑based planning, prioritization, and review discussions
Partnership with IT and Enterprise MDM
Work closely with the IT Data Product Owner, Data Architects, and Enterprise Master Data Management team to articulate data business context and definitions
Collaborate on technical design options, sequencing, and feasibility assessments
Balance business priorities with architectural standards and platform constraints
Stakeholder Engagement & Decision Support
Engage business stakeholders to understand decision needs and data requirements
Synthesize inputs to support transparent, value‑based decisions
Communicate impacts and tradeoffs of data decisions clearly to leadership
Data Quality, Governance & Adoption (Business Perspective)
Champion business definitions, data quality standards, and usage expectations
Partner with IT and governance teams to ensure data is trusted and consistently interpreted
Ensure IT Commercial Data Delivery and Enterprise MDM are governing necessary data updates, maintaining data quality and data accuracy according to defined data business context
Drive adoption by ensuring data aligns to real business decisions and workflows
Collaborate with the Architects to drive Master Data improvements.
Must Haves
Requires a Bachelor's degree and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience,
OR an advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.
Nice to Haves
Experience working with enterprise data governance, master data management (MDM), or data quality initiatives from a business ownership perspective
Experience working with master data domains such as product, customer, or contract data across enterprise systems
Ability to understand end‑to‑end value streams and how data supports product outcomes, operational processes, and business decisions
Strong product mindset with emphasis on value‑based decision‑making and enabling measurable product outcomes
Comfort making tradeoffs and assessing business impacts of data‑related decisions across systems and stakeholders
Experience partnering with technical teams, architects, or engineers to define business data requirements without owning technical implementation
Experience working across interconnected business systems and integrations, with an understanding of how data flows between platforms and impacts downstream operations
Experience enabling teams with data to measure product value, adoption, performance metrics, and business outcomes
Experience working with enterprise systems such as SAP or integrated platforms where master data drives operational and reporting processes
Experience supporting data cleansing, deduplication, or data standardization initiatives involving customer, product, or contract records
Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills with the ability to align business teams around common data definitions and standards
Familiarity with Agile or product‑based delivery environments supporting cross‑functional teams and value‑driven prioritization
Proficiency in Snowflake, Databricks, and webMethods
Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), Teams, SharePoint, and other collaboration or planning tools
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 required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship
At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
Join us in our mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life—where your unique background and perspective are valued.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$144,800.00 - $217,200.00
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
Further details are available at the link below:
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
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