Sr. Strategic Planning Program Director - Enterprise Tech Strategy

MED Medtronic Inc; Minnesota; On-site; USD 230,000 - 344,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Stock purchase plan

Job summary

Medtronic plc in Minnesota seeks a Senior Director, Enterprise Technology Strategy to lead a cross‑functional, enterprise‑level technology roadmap across portfolios. You will identify reusable technologies, partner with operating units and external partners, and drive execution from concept to delivery in a fast‑moving healthcare technology environment.

The role requires deep experience in product development, technology strategy, and large‑scale program leadership, with readiness to travel up

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.

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 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.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Cross-functional teams

Technology strategy

Stakeholder alignment

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

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 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. 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 At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise‑wide workforce planning approach, 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.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage. Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$229,600.00 - $344,400.00. This position is eligible for a short‑term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

• 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)

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico. Further details are available at the link below: Medtronic benefits and compensation plans.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic”) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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. We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and profound understanding to build extraordinary technologies that transform lives. We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough. This life‑changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will… Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world. Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities. Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of lifelong learning.

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. We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and profound understanding to build extraordinary technologies that transform lives. We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough. This life‑changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will… Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world. Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities. Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of lifelong learning.

This employer participates in the federal E‑Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E‑Verify program, please click here.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare settingis 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. For further information about the E‑Verify program, please click here.