U.S. Commercial Strategic Planning Principal

Medtronic • Boston, MA

1d • $130,400 - $195,600 • Onsite

About The Position

At Medtronic, we believe in pushing the boundaries of what’s possible to improve patient outcomes and advance healthcare. Within U.S. Surgical, we are undergoing a period of transformation to accelerate growth, enhance execution, and strengthen our commercial model. We are seeking a U.S. Commercial, Strategic Planning Principal to support the U.S. Surgical commercial team. This role will play a critical part in driving cross-functional initiatives, enabling operating rhythms, and ensuring disciplined execution of key priorities. This role serves as a central connector across the U.S. Surgical commercial organization—driving communication strategy, commercial alignment, operating rhythms and field enablement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum 7+ years of relevant experience commercial project management or communications (or an advanced degree with 5+ years of relevant experience)
• Practical knowledge in leading the execution of processes, projects and tactics
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced transformation environment with evolving priorities, organizational change, and high leadership visibility
• 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.
• The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile.
• The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers.
• Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
• U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs.
• Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
• For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.
• This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting commercial organizations or field sales teams
• Experience leading executive communications or organizational communications
• Experience managing large-scale meetings, training, or commercial events
• Strong facilitation and organizational alignment skills
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, evolving environments with multiple stakeholders
• Healthcare or medical device experience preferred but not required

Responsibilities

• Lead internal communication strategy and content development for the U.S. commercial organization
• Drive alignment and coordination across Sales, Marketing, Commercial Capabilities, PACE, Commercial Operations and other key stakeholders
• Support governance and consistency of communications across the commercial organization
• Partner with Marketing to translate strategic priorities into clear, actionable messaging for the field
• Drive day-to-day email, newsletters and internal social messaging, as well as other recurring communication cadences
• Partner with Chief of Staff, Marketing and Sales to support annual and quarterly commercial planning processes
• Coordinate commercialization priorities and field focus areas across the organization
• Maintain governance processes, metrics, and reporting mechanisms to monitor execution against key priorities
• Track key actions, risks, dependencies, and organizational priorities to ensure follow-through and accountability
• Lead planning and execution of major commercial events including National Training Meetings (NTM), People Leader Summits
• Coordinate cross-functional inputs to ensure readiness and consistency of messaging for field-facing initiatives
• Help translate strategic priorities into actionable field engagement and enablement plans

Benefits

• Health, Dental and 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 plus 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)
• Paid sick time, as required under applicable state law (for temporary employees)

What This Job Offers

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