Principal Program Manager, EPT Marketing Analytics

Medtronic • Mounds View, MN

4d • $120,000 - $180,000

About The Position

The Principal Program Manager will lead the end-to-end strategy, planning, and execution of the Electrophysiology Therapies Marketing Analytics Reporting Suite. The role supports the Electrophysiology Therapies Marketing Analytics and Insights mission to improve data-driven decision-making, expand data access, and increase efficiency in generating insights. The program leader will connect commercial stakeholders with technical teams, understand business analytics needs, and translate them into actionable requirements and reporting solutions.

The position is accountable for the program roadmap and lifecycle strategy, governance, cross-functional coordination, and adoption. It partners with commercial marketing, sales, finance, product, leadership, corporate insights, technical developers, and other development partners. This is a program leadership role, not a hands-on software development position. The role also oversees reporting validation and release readiness, monitors program outcomes, identifies opportunities to standardize and scale reporting practices, and ensures work follows applicable company processes and privacy, security, quality, and compliance requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, engineering, information systems, analytics, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of relevant professional experience in program, project, or product management, or leading other commercial marketing initiatives; an advanced degree may be considered in place of up to two years of experience, subject to Medtronic job-level requirements.
• At least 5 years of commercial marketing or downstream marketing experience in the medical device or healthcare industry.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional programs in a matrixed environment, with accountability for outcomes across teams that may not report directly to the role.
• Experience translating commercial stakeholder needs into clear requirements and working effectively with technical, analytics, data, or software teams to deliver solutions.
• Strong understanding of commercial performance measurement, business and financial metrics, and how sales and marketing teams use reporting to make decisions.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, including explaining technical concepts in business terms and translating business needs into actionable terms for technical teams.
• Strong executive presence and demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders, align teams, resolve ambiguity, and escalate issues constructively.
• Experience managing program plans, dependencies, risks, decisions, competing priorities, and multiple work streams through launch and adoption.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information and recommend a clear path forward.
• 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

• Master’s degree in business, marketing, business analytics, or a related field.
• Experience in electrophysiology, cardiac rhythm management, cardiac ablation, or another cardiovascular medical device business.
• Experience in marketing analytics, business intelligence, user experience, and dashboards.
• Familiarity with business intelligence tools such as Power BI, CRM platforms such as Salesforce, and data environments such as Snowflake; hands-on development or coding is not required.
• Experience with agile or product-oriented delivery, user research, backlog prioritization, user acceptance testing, and iterative releases.
• Experience leading change management and adoption for new commercial tools, processes, or reporting capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end program plan and roadmap for the Electrophysiology Therapies Marketing Analytics Reporting Suite.
• Serve as the primary bridge between commercial stakeholders and the technical team, including the corporate insights team and other development partners.
• Translate commercial questions and workflows into use cases, requirements, prioritized backlog items, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.
• Build relationships with commercial marketing, sales, finance, product, and leadership partners to understand dashboard use and the business questions that reporting must answer.
• Lead discovery and prioritization for reporting needs, facilitating working sessions to align on audiences, business purposes, key performance indicators, metric definitions, and appropriate levels of detail.
• Partner with technical teams to shape dashboard and data solutions, clarify trade-offs, resolve ambiguity, manage dependencies, and keep business outcomes central to technical decisions.
• Establish program governance, including executive updates, decision forums, status reporting, issue and risk management, and timely escalation of barriers.
• Coordinate design reviews, data and metric validation, user acceptance testing, release readiness, and stakeholder sign-off.
• Lead change management and adoption through communications, enablement, training, feedback loops, and post-launch improvements; use adoption and outcome data to guide the roadmap.
• Define and monitor success measures such as report usage, data quality, time saved, access to insights, and support for commercial decisions.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and scale reporting practices across Electrophysiology Therapies.
• Manage external partners or vendors, as applicable, and ensure program activities follow Medtronic processes and applicable privacy, security, quality, and compliance requirements.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
• Short-term incentive through the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
• For eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week: health, dental, and vision insurance; Health Savings Account; Healthcare Flexible Spending Account; life insurance; long-term disability leave; dependent daycare spending account; tuition assistance or reimbursement; and the Simple Steps well-being program.
• For all regular employees: 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; and Capital Accumulation Plan for Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal