Touch Surgery Product Consultant
Medtronic
Summary
Medtronic 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.
Job description
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.
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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
- 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. § 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.