Careers that Change Lives
Looking for a new and exciting opportunity to change the future of Spine Surgery? Join Medtronic Spine and Biologics as an Upstream Senior Program Marketing Specialist with the Marketing Operations Team. This unique team works on unique projects to solve challenges within the business. We are looking for a passionate, motivated, high energy, strategic marketer to lead new and innovative projects. In this role you will collaborate with HCP customers, marketers in Upstream and Downstream Marketing, Supply Chain, Packaging, Legal, Regulatory, IT, Finance and other functional areas, to understand and define voice of the customer, voice of the business, and create strategic solutions to challenging business problems.

Career growth and development is about learning and stretching yourself to grow your expertise and navigate your career. Medtronic offers award-winning programs to accelerate your development and growth. Our size, scope and market leadership give you the chance to explore career opportunities - and grow as we grow.

The Spine and Biologics business is headquartered in Memphis, TN. This role is open to remote within the US for well qualified candidates.

A Day in the Life

• Develop business case(s) for strategic programs for the business, defining value to customer and value to business
• Collect VOC from surgeon customers, hospital partners, and other stakeholders to understand existing inventory challenges associated with our products
• Attend society trade shows to better understand market trends and meet with customers
• Partner with cross functional teams to develop novel solutions for instrument inventory challenges that meet our customer's needs
• Partner with downstream marketing to understand impact of solutions on business
• Ability to analyze data to make data-driven decisions
• Partner with IT to develop data collection solutions as needed
• Ability to learn and understand technical aspects of procedures/therapies from basic science, anatomy and read published clinical articles and interpret results.
• Develop marketing deliverables as defined by Medtronic's global commercialization process such as Marketing Materials
• Generate strategic pricing model for identified solution
• Collaborate with key surgeons on development ideas, existing product improvements, and data collection
• Collect VOC and VOB for new and existing offerings
• Manage day to day responsibilities in a Global capacity.

General responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

• Formulates and reviews corporate short and long-range plans, goals, and objectives for specific product or product line.
• Determines the profitability and viability of new offerings.
• Develops production and marketing strategies and tactics to ensure effective product placement relative to market opportunity
• Works with other functions to finalize product specifications.
• Serves as technical support, demonstrating products and troubleshooting product issues.
• Travel 25-30%, primarily domestic

Must Have: Minimum Requirements
To be considered, these minimum requirements must be evident on your resume:

• Bachelor's degree
• 4+ years of relevant experience in marketing, engineering, clinical, science or technology, or 2+ years of relevant experience with a Master's degree

Nice to Have

• Bachelor's degree in Business, or Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or related field
• MBA in business or marketing preferred
• Experience in inventory management, supply chain, or operations is a plus
• Ability to multi-task while working in a fast-paced environment
• Strong collaboration skills working with various stakeholders across multiple organizations
• Experience learning technical products quickly
• Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills: ability to convey complex information in a simple and effective manner
• Knowledge of Orthopedics and/or Spine a plus
• Experience in an upstream marketing organization

About Medtronic

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.

Physical Job Requirements

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. (ADA-United States of America)

Additional Information

• Posting Date: Sep 10, 2021
• Travel: Yes, < 25 % of the Time