Sr. Strategic Planning Program Director - Enterprise Tech Strategy
Medtronic
Summary
The Senior Director, Enterprise Technology Strategy will lead the enterprise view of emerging and physical technologies, devices, and enabling infrastructure that can be shared across Medtronic portfolios. The leader will identify where Medtronic can develop technology once and deploy it at scale across multiple businesses. This is a hands-on enterprise strategy role responsible for building the roadmap and then ensuring it is executed, delivered against, communicated, refined, and optimized over time. The role will work across Operating Units, customers, and external partners to connect product-development realities with Medtronic’s broader technology direction.
Job description
Primary Responsibilities
- Assess emerging and physical technologies, devices, and device infrastructure that could be reused across multiple Medtronic portfolios.
- Build and maintain an enterprise technology roadmap that aligns shared capabilities with Operating Unit product roadmaps and business needs.
- Identify opportunities to develop technologies once and deploy them at scale rather than duplicating similar capabilities across businesses.
- Continuously articulate, refine, and optimize the roadmap as technologies, customer expectations, and markets evolve.
- Drive delivery against the enterprise technology roadmap and ensure strategic priorities translate into practical development activity.
- Partner closely with Operating Units and development teams to understand what it takes to move from an ambitious concept through each stage of product development.
- 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.
- Engage physicians, hospital administrators, and other external customers to understand where the hospital market is heading and what customers expect from enterprise technology.
- Help establish focus groups and advisory boards so roadmap decisions remain customer-centered.
- Serve as a strategic counterpart to external partners such as Amazon, NVIDIA, Siemens, and Philips, connecting external capabilities and market insights back into Medtronic.
- Build an enterprise view of reusable technologies and shared device infrastructure across portfolios.
- Establish and communicate the initial enterprise technology roadmap.
- Create a practical approach for driving execution, measuring progress, and updating priorities over time.
Required Qualifications
- 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 product development, technology strategy, devices, hardware, enabling infrastructure, or related technology environments.
- Demonstrated experience creating strategy from concept and carrying it forward through execution, rather than only implementing direction created by others.
- Deep understanding of the product development process and the practical steps required to move technology from concept through development and delivery.
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Medical device or medtech experience, including familiarity with QMS, regulatory requirements, and regulated product development.
- Experience developing or scaling hardware, devices, or technical platforms across products, portfolios, or businesses.
- Experience in a technology company that has successfully scaled hardware, even without a traditional medical-device background.
- Experience identifying reusable technologies or infrastructure and translating them into enterprise roadmaps.
- Experience engaging directly with healthcare customers, external technology partners, or strategic advisory groups.
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 product development, technology strategy, devices, hardware, enabling infrastructure, or related technology environments.
- Demonstrated experience creating strategy from concept and carrying it forward through execution, rather than only implementing direction created by others.
- Deep understanding of the product development process and the practical steps required to move technology from concept through development and delivery.
- 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.
- Medical device or medtech experience, including familiarity with QMS, regulatory requirements, and regulated product development.
- Experience developing or scaling hardware, devices, or technical platforms across products, portfolios, or businesses.
- Experience in a technology company that has successfully scaled hardware, even without a traditional medical-device background.
- Experience identifying reusable technologies or infrastructure and translating them into enterprise roadmaps.
- Experience engaging directly with healthcare customers, external technology partners, or strategic advisory groups.
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.