Principal Pricing Strategy Analyst- 12 months contract

Medtronic plc; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic plc in Johannesburg is seeking a high-potential pricing professional to join the Cardiovascular Strategic Pricing Team. You will partner with Marketing and Offer Development to shape pricing, model scenarios, and analyze financial impact.

This role requires strong analytical skills and experience in pricing within a matrix, multi-cultural environment. You will guide pricing for new product launches, support cross-functional decision-making, and help implement pricing programs that

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance or Business Administration.
• Min 5 years of experience in pricing, commercial finance.
• Strong proficiency in Excel and comfortable with various simulations.
• Problem solving, solution finding and decision making oriented; navigate complex matrix with multi-cultural & multi-functional components.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and evolution of strategic pricing frameworks across sub-region, aligning with long-term objectives and market realities.
• Partner with sub-regional leadership, marketing, and commercial teams on pricing roadmap development and value-based segmentation.
• Shape pricing strategies for new product launches and commercial models based on insights and economic value drivers.
• Guide integration of pricing decisions into planning cycles, business cases, and lifecycle management to drive profitability and growth.
• Own pricing input into the IBP cycle, including ASP planning across portfolios.
• Collaborate with regional and global stakeholders to localize pricing governance and ensure consistency.

Skills

Excel proficiency

Pricing experience

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance or Business Administration

Job description

Flexible Work Arrangement
Prague, Hlavni Mesto Praha, Czech Republic
Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye
Almaty, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Full time
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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

This is an exciting opportunity for a high potential, analytical, pro-active candidate to join the Cardiovascular Strategic Pricing Team. This person, reporting to the Senior Pricing Strategy Manager Cardiovascular EurAsia, acts as the liaison between the Marketing and Offer Development teams for Pricing responsibilities including creation of new product pricing, scenario modeling and financial analysis. The individual will also provide guidance to Marketing on fine tuning new product pricing strategies, implementation of Marketing promotions and tracking price volume initiatives. With in-depth knowledge and understanding of company products, pricing programs and market trends, the individual will help to establish strategic pricing processes, procedures as well as pricing analytic models and drive decision making discussions in the best interest of Medtronic as well as own portfolio projects protecting the value proposition of our products .This person will interact with Marketing, Shared Services, Legal, Sales, Finance and Offer Development team members during the pricing development process.

Primary responsibilities:

• Lead the development and evolution of strategic pricing frameworks across the sub-region, ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives, portfolio dynamics, and market realities.
• Act as a business partner to sub-regional leadership, marketing, and commercial teams, providing strategic guidance on pricing roadmap development, value-based segmentation, and market access readiness.
• Shape pricing strategies for new product launches and commercial models by translating procedural trends, competitive insights, and economic value drivers into clear, sustainable pricing direction.
• Guide the integration of strategic pricing decisions into planning cycles, business cases, and lifecycle management, helping drive sustainable profitability and market growth.
• Own the pricing input into the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycle, including ASP planning across portfolios.
• Collaborate with regional and global stakeholders to localize pricing governance frameworks, build pricing capabilities, and ensure consistency in execution across countries.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance or Business Administration.
• Min 5 years of experience in pricing, commercial finance.
• Strong proficiency in Excel and comfortable with various simulations.
• Problem solving, solution finding and decision making oriented; the candidate has to master navigating through a complex matrix environment with multi-cultural & multi-functional components.
• An entrepreneurial / proactive approach is required to design new concepts / processes and successfully drive internal buy-in from all levels of the organization.

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

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.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Czechia: 1,280,000.00 CZK - 1,920,000.00 CZK | Poland: 192,000.00 PLN - 288,000.00 PLN | Romania: 233,600.00 RON - 350,400.00 RON | Slovakia: 42,320.00 EUR - 63,480.00 EUR |

The final salary within this range will be determined based on objective, job-related criteria, including relevant experience, skills and qualifications, in accordance with our compensation framework.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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 a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can 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 life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world . Here, it's about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

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.

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.