We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 25 Jul 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

The Acute Care and Monitoring (ACM) operating unit (OU) is committed to excellence in innovation and commercialization to pursue our vision and long-term business growth. The ACM organization is refining its product delivery, innovation, and commercialization approach to enable product leadership across all segments of our product portfolio. This will require enhancing our innovative processes, refining our design and delivery approaches to deliver an integrated and comprehensive portfolio that enables product development excellence across ACM.  

The Senior Group Manager, Global Downstream Marketing will lead a team of product marketers and program managers to develop the Respiratory product portfolio commercial strategy. This includes product branding and messaging, product launches, geographic expansions, portfolio optimization, customer events and conferences, pricing and contracting, competitive strategy, etc. This leader will be accountable for achieving a powerful and harmonized global presence for ACMs Respiratory portfolio in partnership with the global business and region marketing teams. This leader will partner with cross-functional teams to accelerate revenue and market share growth, while ensuring alignment with the business leadership team. This will be a high visibility and high impact role to develop as a key commercial and business leader within the organization.

This position is based in Lafayette, Colorado along with the rest of the product marketing and business leadership team.

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.  ​

A Day in The Life

• Lead product marketing strategy and execution with the goal of driving commercial excellence, accelerating revenue and market share growth, and improving adoption of Microstream and Nellcor patient monitoring technologies.
• Develop a compelling therapy and portfolio branding, and messaging strategy by market segment.
• Oversee new product launches, phase-in phase-out, and geo expansions
• Manage the commercial portfolio through integrated business planning (IBP) process to optimize forecasts and product availability
• Shape ACM presence at Medtronic organized events and scientific congresses
• Manage regular cadence of sales communications and plans of action (POA)
• Own competitive strategy, including competitive messaging and positioning
• Identify and execute high profile growth initiatives
• Maximize portfolio impact with customer targeting, key account strategy, and pricing / contracting initiatives
• Implement global portfolio strategy in partnership with regional business teams
• Accelerate clinical marketing in partnership with clinical and medical affairs team
• Partner with finance, sales, and sales support teams to achieve quarterly / annual financial commitments
• Shape sales training and medical education strategy in alignment with business goals
• Build strong relationships with KOLs and VIP physicians in key accounts
• Track, measure, analyze and report the effectiveness of marketing initiatives to key internal and external stakeholders
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of product marketers
• Authorize hiring, firing, promotion, and reward for the team members
• 30-40% travel

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience and 5+ years of people, program or project management experience
• Advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience and 5+ years of people, program or project management experience

Nice to Have

• MBA or an advanced degree in the field of medical / healthcare / business
• Demonstrated success in leading a commercial function with direct people management responsibilities
• Self-driven and able to lead with influence
• Strong communication, negotiation, and conflict management skills
• Experience engaging C-suite level business and cross-functional leadership
• Proven ability to achieve strategic initiatives across a matrixed organization
• Experience achieving commercial objectives in partnership with sales
• Experience building relationships with key customers, physicians / KOLs
• Excellent planning, project management and analytical skills  
• Excellent presentation and storytelling skills
• Creative, persistent, and strategic thinker
• Executive presence with strong interpersonal skills
• Experience working in a fast paced, global organization
• Global perspective and mindset

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):$154,400.00 - $231,600.00

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.