Sr. Director Training & Education Strategy (CAS)

Medtronic•Mounds View, MN

1d•$207,200 - $310,800•Hybrid

About The Position

At Medtronic, you can embark on a lifelong career of exploration and innovation, contributing to healthcare access and equity. This Senior Director of Training & Education role is pivotal in one of the fastest-growing medical device businesses, focusing on shaping how field teams are trained, certified, and empowered. The successful candidate will define the end-to-end strategy and oversee the execution of world-class product, sales, and service training programs to drive customer success and business growth. Key responsibilities include building scalable training pathways, collaborating with curriculum and product teams to refine content, and leveraging data-driven insights to assess effectiveness and inform leadership. This position offers a unique opportunity to establish and lead a high-impact team of technical trainers, influence enterprise strategy, and develop innovative learning experiences that enhance readiness, confidence, and performance across a rapidly expanding organization. While the ideal candidate would be based in the Minneapolis, MN area, remote capacity will be considered.

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor's degree with 15 years of relevant experience, including 10 years of managerial experience OR an advanced degree with 13 years of relevant experience, including 10 years of managerial experience.

Nice To Haves

Medical related training and education
Managing people and budgets
Executive level communications
Cross-functional collaboration or navigating a matrix organization
Setting strategy and planning work
Demonstrated success in building, motivating, and coaching a team
Analytical and critical thinking skills.
Ability to understand and work with data to provide direction and perspective to the team, and to leader stakeholders.
Ability to adapt and change within dynamic corporate and business environment
Ability to drive decision making and shape strategy
Innovative approach and mindset
Demonstrated success in developing relationships with commercial and filed teams, colleagues and customers.
Ability to lead cross-functional teams
Strong organizational skills.
Ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-moving environment.
Ability to manage multiple products / projects
Excellent interpersonal, selling, communication and presentation skills
Strong computer skills, including word-processing, spreadsheets, e-mail and the effective use of presentation software
Independence, energy, and positive attitude

Responsibilities

Provides leadership of sales and service training and education department, including people and program leadership.
Responsible for end-to-end strategy and execution including planning and forecasting, training, certifying and upskilling mapping specialists.
Responsible for leading a high performing team, including attracting, inspiring, coaching, developing, managing performance and rewarding outcomes.
Fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration.
Responsible for setting, tracking and reporting analytics required for leadership communication and evaluating training effectiveness.
Partner with IT to advance and streamline reporting and analytics.
Plans, develops, and coordinates in-house and field-based product and sales training programs for CAS field personnel.
Partner with curriculum development team for seamless integration of new products and continuous improvement in training materials and resources
Develops and manages sales and service training pathways
Obtains information needed to prepare training programs; prepares training pathways and materials; develops course content; determines methodology; and coordinates the development of training aids.
Ensures training program(s) meets company, CAS OU, and customer objectives.
Leads communication with leadership, customers and trainees to ensure effectiveness of training.
Conducts reviews with business leadership on training strategy and execution.
Partner with sales to create and advance training pathways for sales reps, including training and territory and selling skills.
Implements continuous improvement mindset and strategies; leads team to revise plans to meet new training requirements and to keep technical information up to date.