Medtronic

Medical Affairs, Program Director

Medtronic$220K — $330K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of healthcare leadership or strategy experience (or 8+ years with advanced degree)
  • 7+ years of managerial experience
  • Mastery in healthcare enterprise dynamics with strategic thinking skills
  • Executive-level communication skills for engaging with healthcare leaders
  • Proven capability to lead cross-functional teams and influence decision-making

Responsibilities

  • Establish and expand executive-level relationships within U.S. health systems
  • Serve as a Medical Affairs partner to strengthen clinical collaboration
  • Collaborate with leadership to define and execute account strategies
  • Align cross-functional teams to advance enterprise initiatives
  • Develop engagement strategies that articulate clinical value propositions

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance options
  • 401(k) with employer contribution and match
  • Tuition assistance and reimbursement programs
  • Incentive plans and employee stock purchase plan
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Access to a global well-being program (Simple Steps)
  • Long-term disability and life insurance
Full Job Description
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 14 Aug 2026

A Day in the Life

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.

In this exciting role as a Medical Affairs, Program Director, you will partner with the Enterprise Accounts & Strategic Channels commercial organization to engage with clinical stakeholders from the largest U.S. healthcare systems. Your responsibilities include developing relationships with senior health system administrative and clinical stakeholders and identifying innovative opportunities and unique clinical strategies leveraging the breadth of Medtronic's portfolio to deliver unique value and meet shared needs. This role will be accountable for cross-functional teamwork, understanding the value of Medtronic products and services, and assessing and pursuing clinical collaboration and growth opportunities with US health system clinical stakeholders on behalf of Medtronic.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. This position is remote to enhance our competitive edge and expand our cross-functional collaboration efforts. This role will require 50% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

A Day in the Life (Responsibilities)

Relationships
  • Establish, cultivate, and expand executive-level relationships with senior clinical and administrative stakeholders within designated U.S. health systems, including C-suite leaders, service line executives, medical directors, and other enterprise decision-makers.
  • Serve as a Medical Affairs partner to clinical customers, shaping strategic engagement opportunities that strengthen Medtronic's enterprise relationship, advance clinical collaboration, and improve patient access, outcomes, and system-level value.
  • Partner closely with Enterprise Accounts and Strategic Channels leadership to define, influence, and execute account strategies focused on clinical collaboration, patient access, outcomes improvement, and differentiated value creation across the Medtronic portfolio.
  • Build alignment across operating units and functional partners, including marketing, R&D, legal, clinical research, healthcare economics, advisory services, and other teams, to advance enterprise-level initiatives and resolve complex cross-functional dependencies.
  • Develop and lead internal and external stakeholder engagement to articulate integrated clinical and economic value propositions and identify opportunities for scalable, strategic partnership models.


Strategy
  • Assess complex, multi-dimensional challenges facing U.S. hospitals and health systems, including clinical priorities, operational pressures, economic constraints, access barriers, and evolving care delivery models, and translate insights into enterprise clinical engagement strategies.
  • Identify, develop and lead strategic clinical collaboration opportunities that leverage the breadth of Medtronic's portfolio to improve patient access, outcomes, care efficiency, and economic value for customers and Medtronic.
  • Co-create enterprise account strategies with Enterprise Accounts and Strategic Channels leaders, prioritizing high-impact opportunities, defining success measures, aligning cross-business resources, and establishing action plans that address unique customer needs and organizational objectives.
  • Anticipate strategic risks, identify root causes of complex barriers, and guide cross-functional teams toward practical solutions, clear decision points, and disciplined execution against account-level objectives, timelines, and partnership milestones.
  • Identify opportunities to grow the expertise and value offerings provided by the U.S. Enterprise Accounts Medical Science team. Design and deploy solutions to address opportunities.


Communication
  • Provide subject matter expertise on changing health care dynamics and clinical opportunities with the enterprise-level customer.
  • Develop and deliver high quality, innovative written and verbal briefings and presentations
  • Demonstrate emotional intelligence, maturity, and political sensitivity in written and verbal communications and ability to direct discussions to desired outcomes


Novel Strategies and Creativity
  • Lead and advise on the design of innovative ideas to support Medtronic strategies and coordinate activities to address clinical opportunities and challenges that leverage multiple businesses within enterprise level accounts.
  • Develop innovative clinical partnership models


Minimum Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant hospital/health system clinical, executive leadership, enterprise account, medical affairs, or healthcare strategy experience (or 8+ years with an advanced degree)
  • 7+ years of managerial experience


Desired Qualifications
  • Mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific professional discipline, with demonstrated ability to apply enterprise-level strategic thinking across complex hospital/health industry dynamics, including providers, payors, integrated delivery networks, and evolving models of care.
  • MD, RN, PA, MBA or clinical licensure or designation
  • MBA or advanced degree preferred, with deep knowledge and experience in hospital/health system operations, economics and reimbursement, enterprise strategy development, and value-based care dynamics.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, solve complex and highly interdependent business, clinical, and stakeholder challenges, and develop actionable recommendations that influence senior leaders and cross-functional decision-making.
  • Proven record of developing new, innovative, and scalable approaches to address unmet clinical, operational, access, or economic needs within large health systems or enterprise-level partnerships.
  • High performer in current and previous roles with progressive leadership experience, demonstrated enterprise impact, and ability to influence without direct authority across matrixed organizations.
  • Executive-level verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex clinical, economic, and strategic concepts into compelling narratives for senior health system leaders and internal executive stakeholders.
  • Advanced problem-solving capabilities, including the ability to analyze ambiguous, multi-stakeholder challenges, identify root causes, evaluate tradeoffs, and design effective solutions that balance clinical, operational, economic, and strategic priorities.
  • Proven ability to collaborate, influence, and align senior leaders in a health system administration environment, while leading cross-functional teams through complex initiatives with broad organizational impact.
  • Demonstrated creativity and strategic agility, with experience developing novel partnership models, innovative clinical collaboration frameworks, or differentiated approaches that create measurable value for customers and Medtronic.
  • High degree of flexibility and adaptability in a rapidly changing environment, with ability to anticipate market, customer, and organizational needs and proactively shape strategy in response.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. a7 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

Recruitment Fraud Alert

We are aware of phishing scams targeting job seekers. Please keep the following in mind:

Apply only through official Medtronic channels. All legitimate Medtronic recruiting communications come from approved Medtronic platforms and official [redacted].com email addresses.

Medtronic will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information (such as bank account or Social Security details) during early stages of the hiring process. Any such requests are not legitimate.

If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Medtronic, do not respond, click links, or open attachments.

If you have any questions, concerns regarding the authenticity of a communication alleged to have been made by or on behalf of Medtronic, please contact us immediately at [redacted].

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):$220,000.00 - $330,000.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.

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

Medtronic plc is an Irish-domiciled multinational medical device company that develops and manufactures medical device technologies and therapies to treat chronic diseases worldwide. Medtronic was founded in 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as a medical equipment repair shop. Today, the company operates in more than 160 countries and employs over 90,000 people. Medtronic's primary products include implantable pacemakers and defibrillators, insulin pumps, spinal and neurostimulation devices, surgical tools, and patient monitoring systems. The company is committed to improving patient outcomes and expanding access to healthcare through innovative medical technologies.
Learn more about Medtronic
Size
95,000 employees
Market Cap
$102.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.8 billion
Founded
1949
5 Year Trend
+1.3%
Revenue
$27.9 billion
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