Sr Director Strategic Marketing & Market Development

Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology, dedicated to alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life. The Sr Director of Strategic Marketing & Market Development will shape the enterprise-wide portfolio strategy and identify transformative opportunities to address unmet needs, guiding programs from concept to commercialization while optimizing market speed and value.

Responsibilities:

• Shape enterprise-wide portfolio roadmap and capital allocation strategy focused on high-growth markets, breakthrough therapies, and emerging technologies
• Lead transformative strategic initiatives that advance the company’s long-term mission, growth objectives, and innovation agenda
• Identify and prioritize indications, unmet clinical and stakeholder needs, and care pathway opportunities to define differentiated value propositions
• Shape new product, service, and business opportunities through deep market and customer insight
• Define patient segmentation, positioning, product-market fit, pricing strategy, and business models to maximize commercial success
• Assess competitive landscapes, market dynamics, emerging technologies, and ecosystem trends to inform strategic decision-making
• Develop robust financial models and business cases to support investment decisions, portfolio prioritization, and growth strategies. Scope and architect programs to create market-winning solutions while minimizing development timelines and accelerating time to market
• Partner cross-functionally across R&D, clinical, commercial, corporate strategy, business development, finance, and executive leadership teams to align strategy with execution
• Influence senior leadership through data-driven recommendations, strategic frameworks, and executive-level communications
• Work with external ecosystem partners to develop innovative partnership models, strategic alliances, and collaborative business structures that accelerate strategy execution and market adoption

Requirements:

• Requires a Bachelor's degree and minimum of 15 years of relevant experience with 10+ years of managerial experience (people or program), or advanced degree with a minimum 13 years prior relevant experience, minimum of 10 years of managerial experience (people or program)
• 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
• MBA
• Experience in emerging therapies and technologies, particularly in early-stage voice-of-customer research, defining product, market development and commercialization planning
• Upstream marketing and strategy experience
• Background in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), neuromodulation, or broader neuroscience-focused innovations
• Experience building and scaling new markets, including patient engagement, advocacy, and ecosystem development
• Exposure to enterprise-level portfolio strategy or corporate strategy functions
• Exposure to healthcare innovation, medical technology development, and human-centered design
• Strong understanding of healthcare markets, reimbursement dynamics, and care delivery models
• Comfort influencing senior executive stakeholders in highly matrixed, global organizations
• Consulting experience on corporate strategy and operations
• Track record of partnering cross-functionally to advance programs from concept through early commercialization
• Experience operating in high-growth, ambiguous environments with a strong test-and-learn mindset