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A Day in the Life
The $4.0B Cardiac Pacing Therapies (CPT) market for implantable devices is rapidly change many exciting opportunities for growth. Medtronic is the market leader, driven by the strength of our strategies and powerful innovation pipeline.
We are hiring a Principal Product Planner (individual contributor) who will play an important part on this team, leading development of business strategies supporting our transvenous and conduction system pacing franchises. You will work closely with R&T, R&D, Commercial Marketing, Project Management, Clinical, Regulatory and other cross-functional, cross-regional and potentially cross-divisional business partners to develop new strategies. Your activities will include gathering Voice of Customer (VOC) feedback, defining customer unmet needs, business case evaluation and portfolio project prioritization to grow the business. In coordination with CPT leadership, you will contribute to the CPT business strategy and long-term vision by analyzing competitive strategies, market trends and internal capabilities. Your role will support developing the best pacing portfolio in the industry.

A Day In The Life:

• Lead internal and external efforts to create a compelling vision and portfolio strategies that garners the investment required to expand our leadership position in the pacing market, ensuring meaningful access to new market opportunities to further expand our growing franchises.


• Analyze market opportunities and risks, presenting analyses to CPT leadership team and recommending strategies to drive competitive differentiation.


• Develop a deep understanding of the pacing market and customer unmet needs.


• Build relationships with key opinion leaders (KOLs) and physicians to gather Voice of Customer (VOC) feedback around the existing portfolio, and future potential projects to translate unmet customer and market needs into impactful strategies and new market opportunities.


• Identifies market research needs, elicits stakeholder inputs by creating and conducting multiple customer feedback methodologies targeted but not limited to patients, Medtronic field staff, clinicians, and hospital administrators.


• Drives alignment internally and across the regions, creating compelling business cases for necessary resources required to execute strategies.


• Partners cross-functionally to develop comprehensive product strategies that span multiple technologies and/or therapies to create integrated approaches with broad impact.


• Travels domestically and internationally in support of customer engagements and internal Medtronic activities up to 25% of time.

Must Have:

• Bachelor's Degree


• 7+ years' experience in a marketing, business development, strategy or technical role (5 years with Advanced degree)


• Project and/or program management experience


• New product planning, upstream, or downstream marketing experience

Nice to Have:

• MBA or other Master's Degree


• Medical device, pharmaceutical, or biotech industry experience


• Desire, passion and ability to gain therapy and product knowledge quickly


• Knowledge of product development process, and demonstrated leadership in a matrix environment


• Strong multi-disciplinary skills in business and financial analytics, modeling, strategic planning, marketing, market research, public speaking, influencing and negotiation is strongly preferred.

ABOUT MEDTRONIC

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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):$125,600.00 - $188,400.00

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).

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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 90,000+ 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.

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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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