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.

• Ability to travel 25% of the time.

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.

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):$134,400.00 - $201,600.00

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.