Sr. Strategic Planning Program Director - Digital Strategy & Innovation
Medtronic
Summary
The Senior Director, Digital Strategy & Innovation will serve as the enterprise connector for digital initiatives across Medtronic, partnering with Operating Units to build, communicate, maintain, and advance a cohesive digital vision, strategy, and roadmap. This is a hands-on enterprise strategy role.
Job description
Primary Responsibilities
Digital Strategy & Roadmap Leadership
- Aggregate digital initiatives across Medtronic and build a common enterprise view without directing Operating Units on how to run their businesses.
- Develop, articulate, track, and continually adapt the enterprise digital vision, strategy, and roadmap through commercialization.
- Coordinate across Operating Units to understand existing roadmaps, identify common priorities, and improve communication across portfolios.
- Keep the roadmap current by monitoring competitive dynamics, market direction, and changes in the digital health landscape.
Execution & Cross-Enterprise Alignment
- Partner across product development and go-to-market planning to help Operating Units connect digital initiatives to the broader enterprise strategy.
- Drive internal Core Labs initiatives and ensure they remain aligned with Operating Unit and enterprise priorities.
- Work directly with distributed teams and leaders across Medtronic; this is not a desk-based strategy or presentation-only role.
- Build trust and followership across a complex matrix through strong relationships, humility, constructive challenge, and clear communication.
Customer & Strategic Partner Engagement
- Engage physicians, hospital administrators, and other external customers to understand hospital economics, contracting considerations, and evolving expectations for digital technology.
- Help establish focus groups and advisory boards so the digital strategy remains grounded in customer needs.
- Serve as a strategic counterpart to external partners such as Amazon, NVIDIA, Siemens, and Philips, connecting external perspectives and partnerships back into Medtronic.
Initial Priorities
In the first six months, build common digital roadmaps and a clear enterprise articulation of Medtronic’s digital activity and direction. Create communication that can be used for internal leadership, investor, and other external audiences. Establish an operating rhythm for maintaining the roadmap and driving teams forward against the strategy.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 15 years of relevant experience OR master’s degree and 13 years of relevant experience.
- 10 years of progressive leadership experience, including leadership of cross-functional teams and strategic initiatives.
- Extensive professional experience in digital health, digital products, software platforms, or related digital technology environments.
- Demonstrated digital DNA, including an inherent understanding of interoperability and modern digital ecosystems.
- Experience creating strategy from concept and carrying it forward through execution, rather than only implementing direction created by others.
- Strong understanding of the product development process and how digital products and platforms are built, scaled, and commercialized.
- Experience influencing senior leaders and aligning multiple stakeholder groups in a complex, global matrix.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, potentially up to 60%, to work with teams, customers, and partners.
- Experience with modern, agile digital product and platform development in an environment that values both speed and quality.
- Digital health experience involving connected platforms, interoperability, or enterprise-scale digital ecosystems.
- Experience working across multiple businesses or portfolios to build shared strategies and roadmaps.
- Experience engaging directly with healthcare customers, external technology partners, or strategic advisory groups.
- Medical technology or regulated healthcare experience; helpful, but less important than strong digital product and platform experience.
- 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.
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance
- Long-term Disability Leave
- Dependent Daycare Spending Account
- Tuition Assistance
- 401(k) Matching
- Short-term Disability
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Incentive Plans
Company overview
Medtronic is a global healthcare technology leader and one of the world's largest medical device companies, founded in 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company operates in over 150 countries and employs more than 90,000 people worldwide. Medtronic's mission is to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life through innovative medical technologies. The company develops and manufactures devices and therapies to treat more than 70 health conditions, including cardiac devices, cranial and spine robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems, and more. With a rich history that began with the invention of the battery-powered pacemaker, Medtronic has grown into a diversified healthcare technology company with four main business units: Minimally Invasive Therapies Group, Diabetes Group, Restorative Therapies Group, and Cardiac and Vascular Group. The company's therapies help approximately 72 million people annually and represent a significant force in advancing medical technology to address some of humanity's most challenging health problems.