A Day in the LifeMedtronic Core Digital Labs develops and scales meaningful digital innovations across the enterprise. The Strategic Product Consultant will play a critical role in expanding Touch Surgery across Medtronic, partnering with Operating Units (OUs) to translate enterprise digital capabilities into differentiated clinical and commercial solutions.
This highly collaborative role serves as a strategic connector between Core Digital Labs and OU marketing, while working cross-functionally with R&D, Operations, Finance, Sales, and other key stakeholders. The consultant will help define the strategy, business models, commercialization frameworks, and launch capabilities required to scale Touch Surgery across multiple specialties, geographies, and product portfolios.
Success in this role requires strong strategic thinking, influence without authority, commercial acumen, and the ability to translate diverse OU and customer needs into scalable enterprise solutions.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
Upstream Strategy & Portfolio Development- Develop and refine business cases for Touch Surgery and broader Core Digital Labs capabilities, translating customer needs, clinical value, market opportunity, and commercial potential into actionable investment and product recommendations.
- Partner with OU marketing teams to identify, prioritize, and develop high-value opportunities for integrating Touch Surgery capabilities into their portfolio and commercial strategies.
- Influence product and platform roadmaps by synthesizing requirements across OUs, specialties, and customer segments while identifying opportunities for common enterprise capabilities.
Downstream Commercialization & Launch- Support launch planning and commercialization readiness for Touch Surgery across the Medtronic enterprise in partnership with OU marketing and commercial teams.
- Develop reusable enterprise launch frameworks, value propositions, claims, messaging, and core commercial collateral that can be adapted by OUs across specialties and markets.
- Partner with OU marketers to translate enterprise positioning into specialty-specific customer value propositions and commercial strategies.
- Drive alignment across OU launches to strengthen consistency in Touch Surgery positioning, messaging, branding, and customer experience.
- Identify launch dependencies, barriers to adoption, and capability gaps and partner cross-functionally to develop solutions that enable successful deployment and scale.
- Capture learnings from early launches and deployments and translate them into repeatable commercialization playbooks for subsequent OUs and markets.
Enterprise Strategy, Commercial Models & Scaling- Serve as a strategic advisor to Core Digital Labs and OU leadership on Touch Surgery commercialization, adoption, and enterprise expansion.
- Connect learnings and needs across OUs to identify opportunities for enterprise standardization, reuse, and investment.
- Represent the voice of the customer and the OUs within Core Digital Labs while simultaneously serving as an advocate for enterprise digital strategy within the OUs.
- Serve as a Touch Surgery product and commercialization expert, including supporting customer engagements, demonstrations, strategic discussions, and resolution of adoption barriers.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements- Bachelor's degree required
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
Nice to Have- Experience in connected medical devices, digital health, or healthcare technology
- Background in acute care, patient monitoring, or hospital-based product environments
- Prior downstream product management or product marketing experience
- Experience supporting global product launches or regional commercialization strategies
- Strong cross-functional leadership with Sales, R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, and Operations teams
- Familiarity with customer insights, market analysis, and competitive intelligence
- Experience working in regulated environments within the medical device industry
- Ability to translate technical product features into clear customer and commercial value messages
- Experience with enterprise healthcare customers, IDNs, or hospital purchasing stakeholders
- Exposure to connectivity, interoperability, or software-enabled product ecosystems.
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 RequirementsThe 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 & CompensationMedtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits PackageA 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):$160,800.00 - $241,200.00
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
