Director, Health Systems Strategies

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

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Creates and executes comprehensive market access strategies through the integration of pricing and reimbursement, health technology assessment, evidence- based medicine review, and health economic modeling activities.
• Designs, develops and implements an integrated approach to all aspects of the payer value proposition from early development through and beyond loss of exclusivity.
• Communicates the unique attributes of the therapeutic area drugs/medical devices to external multi-stakeholders to ensure the drug's/device's value proposition will be recognized and maximize market uptake.
• Works collectively with payers, including HTA, reimbursement influencers and other decision makers to ensure the continuous changing reimbursement systems remain fair to all involved parties.
• Develops strategic studies with the end-customer in mind to ensure that the results will favorably impact pricing, reimbursement and market access as well as market uptake.
• Conducts quantitative and qualitative pricing research.
• Works with Health Economics/Outcomes Research to design pricing strategy.
• Responsible for reporting complaints and Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR)
• Responsible for planning, initiating, monitoring, tracking and/or prioritizing Health Economics, Policy & Reimbursement projects and process improvement initiatives and facilitating successful, on-time and within budget execution.
• Sets clear direction and management objectives that aligns with defined practices and policies and enhances the organization's ability to develop and execute clinical studies and reimbursement strategies in response to changing regulatory environments.
• Interacts and works closely with other departments, such as but not limited to, Government Affairs, Marketing, Sales, Legal, R&D and Clinical to ensure optimal assessment of the potential business impact of healthcare policy and recommending and implementing appropriate strategy to drive outcomes are as favorable as possible for Medtronic.
• Directs day to day activities for multiple work-stream teams through managing project plans, resourcing, status reporting, resolving issues, identifying project risks and accountability for deliverables across multiple functional organizations.
• Establishes meaningful metrics and tracks against them.
• Responsible for project performance, risk management, administration, financial management, budgeting and issue resolution..
  
  
  

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT CAREER STREAM: Program Managers and Directors focus on tactical, operational activities for a major program with broad or ongoing impact. Levels within the program management career stream typically accomplish program objectives through matrixed employee teams and / or vendors who are not direct reports but for which the incumbent has direct accountability to lead. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, managing program/team performance, communicating project and operational developments, planning, prioritizing and / or directing the responsibilities of program team members. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of program team members.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Manages one or more major, developing programs for critical functions across one or more regions that require development and coordination of new program plans or delivery methods with little precedence .

Is accountable for overall program unit success.

Organizational Impact: Establishes program objectives, timelines, milestones, and budgets.

Establishes new policies and procedures that affect program management.

Has budget accountability for one or more major programs.

Program decisions are generally made independently with strategic or costly decisions recommended to higher level management.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are complex, difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.

Problems typically impact multiple major job areas, businesses or functions within a program.

Enhances programs management processes to substantially improve programs.

Communication and Influence: Communicates and conducts briefings with senior or executive leadership regarding critical program outcomes .

Represents one or more programs as the primary internal and external contact and makes recommendations to leaders and executives.

Influences across functions and businesses to negotiate and gain cooperation on new proposals and programs with divergent objectives.

Leadership and Talent Management: Leads a matrixed small unit that typically includes multiple teams led by Program Managers and/or vendors.

Approves tasks and schedule necessary for successful program execution.

Not directly responsible for hire or fire decisions and people management.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires broad management knowledge and experience to lead project teams in multiple job areas.

Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function.

Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R.

• 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience and 7+ years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience and 7+ years of managerial experience.
  
  
  

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. 

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.

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 90,000+ 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.

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