Senior Program Manager of Strategic Initiatives

A Day in the Life

Medtronic’s Enterprise Accounts & Integrated Health Solutions (EA&IHS) accelerates healthcare transformation through long-term partnerships that go beyond devices—integrating services, solutions, digital, and data. Within this mission, the Senior Program Manager of Strategic Initiatives drives high-impact programs that bring EA&IHS’s strategy to life. We’re recruiting a Senior Program Manager of Strategic Initiatives for Medtronic’s EA&IHS in Europe. This high-visibility role is ideal for a top-tier consultant, focused on leading cross-functional strategic programs such as Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Care Beyond Hospital Walls, digital health platforms, and new contracting models. The role provides structure and execution discipline to complex initiatives delivered by the broader organization. This is a remote role with travel across the Western Europe region 20–30% of the time.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Lead strategic programs across EA&IHS, from design to roll out
• Develop, launch, and scale new offerings such as Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Care Beyond Hospital Walls, and Digital Health solutions
• Partner with the commercial team to design and pilot new contracting and partnership models with health systems and leading providers
• Drive cross-portfolio initiatives that integrate Medtronic’s devices, services, and digital capabilities into long-term system-level partnerships
• Translate strategic priorities into clear programs with business cases, execution roadmaps, and measurable outcomes
• Understand how EA&IHS priorities connect to external ecosystem partners, thought leaders, and client co-development opportunities
• Support positioning EA&IHS as the hub for transformation across Medtronic and its partners

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Master’s degree in business, healthcare management, economics, engineering or equivalent
• Significant experience in strategic consulting, transformation, or leadership roles, including a strong background in top-tier consulting
• Proven track record in leading large, cross-functional strategic programs from concept to execution
• Strong problem-solving and structuring skills; able to simplify complexity into actionable roadmap
• Comfortable with C-suite-level interactions, both internally and with clients
• Knowledge of European healthcare systems, policy, and provider dynamics
• Team player, comfortable dealing with ambiguity, and navigating complex matrix organisations, with strong influencing skills
• Fluent in English; additional European languages are a plus

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package. We commit to our employees and recognize their contributions. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart—putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

Summary

• Locations: Watford (UK); Athens (Greece); Lisbon (Portugal); Prague (Czech Republic); Meerbusch (Germany); Madrid (Spain); Heerlen (Netherlands); Dublin (Ireland); Milan (Italy); Warsaw (Poland)
• Type: Full-time