Principal Marketing Specialist, Cranial and Spinal Technologies - Multiple Locations
About The Position
This role provides international portfolio leadership for Medtronic’s Spine Hardware & Biologics portfolio. Its primary focus is portfolio phase-in/phase-out planning, collecting surgeon Voice of Customer (VOC) insights to inform upstream development, and supporting downstream launch readiness. The position works across time zones and builds cross-functional relationships with Operations, Regulatory, Finance, Marketing, and Sales, serving as a key link between international regions and U.S.-based project teams. The role also provides strategic marketing and enablement support to regional marketing teams, including guidance on messaging adaptation, launch sequencing, and lifecycle transition communications. It facilitates best-practice sharing among regions to improve consistency and speed of execution. Travel includes quarterly international travel (Singapore, Australia, and Japan) and U.S. travel as needed. Flexible work hours are required to support teams across time zones.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and typically 7 or more years of relevant medical device experience, or an advanced degree and typically 5 or more years of relevant medical device experience.
- For baccalaureate degrees earned outside the United States, a degree satisfying the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in spine/CST, with understanding of the marketplace, international regions, and key market trends to support regions strategically.
- Experience working across international cultures and navigating the human element of the work environment.
- Experience partnering with commercial teams (Sales/Marketing) and operational teams (Operations/Supply Chain) to execute time-bound transitions across regions.
- Experience managing surgeon relationships related to upstream product-development feedback and downstream commercialization efforts.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional planning and executing complex transitions or programs end-to-end, such as product lifecycle, launch readiness, supply-to-commercial coordination, or portfolio operations.
- Strong project management capability, including building integrated plans, driving accountability, managing risks and issues, and delivering measurable outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead regional surgeon Voice of Customer collection for upstream development projects, identifying priority customer segments, designing approaches, and synthesizing insights into actionable inputs for U.S. project teams and other stakeholders.
- Partner with regional clinical, sales, and marketing stakeholders to ensure surgeon feedback is representative, timely, and aligned with portfolio strategy needs.
- Own international portfolio lifecycle planning for assigned products and SKUs, including phase-in/phase-out guidance to regions and coordinated execution planning.
- Drive alignment across international regions on lifecycle decisions, including consistent guidance, timing assumptions, and readiness expectations.
- Communicate proactively with project teams so upstream and lifecycle decisions reflect international market needs, constraints, and timing.
- Support downstream launch readiness planning across international regions.
- Align Operations, Regulatory, Finance, Marketing, and Sales partners on launch-readiness deliverables, timelines, risks, and mitigation plans.
- Coordinate regional readiness workstreams, including planning materials, enablement needs, and operational or regulatory constraints that could affect launch timing.
- Provide regional marketing teams with focused enablement and strategic marketing support, including guidance on messaging adaptation, launch sequencing, and lifecycle transition communications.
- Facilitate best-practice sharing across regions to improve consistency and speed of execution.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
- Short-term incentive through the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
- Health insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- Health Savings Account.
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account.
- Life insurance.
- Long-term disability leave.
- Dependent daycare spending account.
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement.
- Simple Steps global well-being program.
- Incentive plans.
- 401(k) plan with employer contribution and match.
- Short-term disability.
- Paid time off.
- Paid holidays.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement, subject to IRS earning minimums.
- Capital Accumulation Plan, available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
