Sr. Strategic Planning Program Director - Enterprise Tech Strategy

Medtronic plc; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic plc seeks a Senior Director of Enterprise Technology Strategy to lead the enterprise view of emerging technologies, devices, and enabling infrastructure across Medtronic portfolios. The role builds a reusable technology roadmap and connects development realities with the company’s broader technology direction.

The role requires deep experience in technology strategy, product development, and leading cross-functional teams; travel up to 60% may be required to work with teams and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field; 15 years of experience or Master’s degree with 13 years of experience.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience, including cross-functional teams.
• Extensive experience in product development, technology strategy, devices, or related tech environments.
• Proven ability to create strategy from concept and drive it to execution.
• Deep understanding of product development processes and moving tech from concept to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise view of emerging and physical technologies across Medtronic portfolios.
• Build and maintain an enterprise technology roadmap aligned with product roadmaps.
• Identify opportunities to develop technologies once and deploy at scale.
• Drive roadmap execution and communicate progress across units and partners.
• Engage clinicians and executives to align technology strategy with market needs.
• Collaborate with distributed teams and external partners to deliver value.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Technology strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Master's degree in a related field

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 23 Nov 2026

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first - developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

The Senior Director, Enterprise Technology Strategy will lead the enterprise view of emerging and physical technologies, devices, and enabling infrastructure that can be shared across Medtronic portfolios.

The leader will identify where Medtronic can develop technology once and deploy it at scale across multiple businesses.

This is a hands-on enterprise strategy role responsible for building the roadmap and then ensuring it is executed, delivered against, communicated, refined, and optimized over time. The role will work across Operating Units, customers, and external partners to connect product-development realities with Medtronic's broader technology direction.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assess emerging and physical technologies, devices, and device infrastructure that could be reused across multiple Medtronic portfolios.
• Build and maintain an enterprise technology roadmap that aligns shared capabilities with Operating Unit product roadmaps and business needs.
• Identify opportunities to develop technologies once and deploy them at scale rather than duplicating similar capabilities across businesses.
• Continuously articulate, refine, and optimize the roadmap as technologies, customer expectations, and markets evolve.
• Drive delivery against the enterprise technology roadmap and ensure strategic priorities translate into practical development activity.
• Partner closely with Operating Units and development teams to understand what it takes to move from an ambitious concept through each stage of product development.
• Work directly with distributed teams and leaders across Medtronic; this is not a desk-based strategy or presentation-only role.
• Build trust and followership across a complex matrix through strong relationships, humility, constructive challenge, and clear communication.
• Engage physicians, hospital administrators, and other external customers to understand where the hospital market is heading and what customers expect from enterprise technology.
• Help establish focus groups and advisory boards so roadmap decisions remain customer-centered.
• Serve as a strategic counterpart to external partners such as Amazon, NVIDIA, Siemens, and Philips, connecting external capabilities and market insights back into Medtronic.
• Build an enterprise view of reusable technologies and shared device infrastructure across portfolios.
• Establish and communicate the initial enterprise technology roadmap.
• Create a practical approach for driving execution, measuring progress, and updating priorities over time.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 15 years of relevant experience OR master's degree and 13 years of relevant experience.
• 10 years of progressive leadership experience, including leadership of cross-functional teams and strategic initiatives.
• Extensive professional experience in product development, technology strategy, devices, hardware, enabling infrastructure, or related technology environments.
• Demonstrated experience creating strategy from concept and carrying it forward through execution, rather than only implementing direction created by others.
• Deep understanding of the product development process and the practical steps required to move technology from concept through development and delivery.
• Experience influencing senior leaders and aligning multiple stakeholder groups in a complex, global matrix.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, potentially up to 60%, to work with teams, customers, and partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Medical device or medtech experience, including familiarity with QMS, regulatory requirements, and regulated product development.
• Experience developing or scaling hardware, devices, or technical platforms across products, portfolios, or businesses.
• Experience in a technology company that has successfully scaled hardware, even without a traditional medical-device background.
• Experience identifying reusable technologies or infrastructure and translating them into enterprise roadmaps.
• Experience engaging directly with healthcare customers, external technology partners, or strategic advisory groups.
• 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.

Physical Job Requirements

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