Job Description
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
• Plan, design and execute marketing programs that will preserve, develop and grow of defined Medtronic products. Work with customers, field sales and management to understand the market, competitive strategies, and product opportunities
• Guides the day-to-day activities of the marketing and Medtronic Care teams and ensures that marketing objectives are being implemented. Provide marketing guidance and foster talent development.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
Directs the development of company market requirements for specific product(s) or product line(s).
Leads and coordinates product planning, product launches, product management, market development and market research activities.
Interacts directly with product managers to identify new marketing opportunities.
Works individually or with a team in recommending action, scheduling and planning projects, estimating cost and managing projects to completion.
Identifies unmet customer requirements and new business opportunities and provides vision and focus to move products from idea to market place.
Facilitates and coordinates marketing activities with geographic areas to increase teamwork and build partnerships.
Responsibilities may also include: coordinating trade show activities, website development, developing future e-commerce strategies, and tracking of marketing campaigns to evaluate results and provide recommendations for future marketing promotions.
Responsible for reporting complaints and Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR)
Responsible for leading the planning of marketing projects and process improvement initiatives and ensuring marketing team executes successfully on-time and within budget.
Recruit, develop and retain superior marketing talent. Maintain talent excellence through coaching and performance management.
Lead annual marketing planning process (AOP), strategic planning and quarterly business reviews for portfolio.
Lead value-based initiatives and market development programs within respective RTG portfolio.
Lead market research and analysis efforts with key customer groups to reveal marketing opportunities including product positioning and message evolution. Monitor competitive activity, and make strategic changes (pricing, product mix) as required.
Establishes meaningful metrics and tracks against them.
Implement remote sales model and supporting digital marketing strategies that support sales growth and market expansion.
Interacts and works closely with other leaders, such as but not limited to Senior Regional Business Director, Marketing Director, and Health System Strategy Directors to ensure marketing programs achieve Medtronic's short and long-term goals while remaining consistent with organization's overall mission.
May include some product portfolio responsibilities such as pricing and promotion, demand planning, backorder and obsolescence management, and product launch plans.
Establish strong relationships, trust and credibility with the Marketing Leaders from the Global Business Units and the Americas Region.
Regular consultation with other department leaders in Medtronic to maximize
potential synergies: therapy development, marketing operations, supply chain,
RAQA, clinical research & sales.
Additional activities required to effectively manage the assigned portfolio
PEOPLE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONAL CAREER STREAM: Management and supervisory professionals with one or more employees who are focused on tactical, operational and some strategic activities within a specified area. Levels within the management career stream typically have six or more direct reports. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, managing performance, developing talent, engagement and inclusion, communicating business and operational developments, planning, prioritizing and / or directing the responsibilities of direct reports. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and / or indirect reports. A key responsibility of roles in this career stream is managing people. which includes: accountability for mentoring, developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives, providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives to include defining performance goals and targets, conducting performance reviews, and staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals.
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS
Autonomy: Manages large team which would typically consist of both experienced professionals and managers.
Turns the department strategy into a commercial reality by developing, communicating and implementing business plans to achieve business results .
Receives assignments in objective oriented terms; has latitude to reinterpret objectives.
Organizational Impact: Initiates programs or projects based on identified business and / or tactical needs.
Decisions impact projects or operations, affect the deadlines, resources, and funds, and the achievement of organizational objectives.
Typically has budget or P&L accountability for a department, function or geography.
Innovation and Complexity: Develops new objectives, new operating policies, products, processes and standards in support of the job function strategy.
Problems and issues faced are complex, difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.
Communication and Influence: Communicates with internal and external customers and vendors concerning ongoing operations, programs or processes.
Influences across functions and businesses while balancing divergent objectives to gain cooperation of other parties .
May interact on issues that have externally divergent objectives.
Leadership and Talent Management: Manages at least one (department, function, geography typically comprised of other People or Program managers and / or supervisors and experienced professionals.
Recommends strategies, goals and plans for a group.
Authorizes hiring, firing, promotion and reward within own area.
Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires broad management knowledge to lead project teams in one department.
Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function.
Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience.
Salary Range: $136,948 - $171,185
PLEASE NOTE:
We use artificial intelligence (AI) to review resumes of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions.
This posting reflects a current, genuine vacancy that we are actively recruiting to fill.
PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS
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.
Medtronic Canada strives through our vision to build a culture of inclusiveness through our commitment to employment equity and diversity. Discrimination is prohibited on any grounds protected under Canadian Human Rights legislation. Employment applications are encouraged from all members of our community. Upon request, candidates with disabilities will be accommodated during the recruitment process.
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.
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.
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