Senior Product Specialist, Cardiac Surgery

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

We are Cardiac Surgery, an innovative, unique, and growing operating unit of the largest Medtech company – Medtronic. For our major product portfolio, we seek a highly experienced Senior Marketing Specialist with extensive experience in a European or global role. Your primary responsibility is to develop and execute the Western European Marketing Plan, aligning with the Global Marketing Strategy by selecting, designing, and tailoring campaigns and tactics that are regionally relevant. These initiatives should be optimized to drive performance in support of AOP targets and strategic plan objectives.

This is a key role within the Cardiac Surgery Operating Unit, with responsibility for a substantial portion of the portfolio across two distinct product categories. You will lead entire projects or processes within your area of expertise, reporting directly to the Marketing Manager Western Europe and cover the Western Europe region. The position requires regular travel, approximately 30–40% per month.

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

• Develop and execute an omni-channel European marketing plan aligned with Global Marketing and Leadership, in close collaboration with regional and local stakeholders, including the creation of business cases, GTM strategies, and new product launch plans tailored for Western Europe.
• Drive strategic campaign and content development, including adapting and creating customer-facing materials, building promotional media plans, PR strategies, and supporting clinical adoption through localized ERPs and clinical data integration.
• Lead pricing strategy and customer engagement, partnering with pricing teams to provide detailed guidance, engaging customers in line with KOL strategies, and organizing key European events, congresses, and marketing calendar activities.
• Monitor execution and performance of marketing initiatives, using tools like Salesforce, Tableau, Power BI, and Yoda to track progress, and ensuring continuous alignment through regular country reviews, customer visits, QBRs, and leadership team meetings.
• Drive market insights and forecasting by leading strategic planning inputs, market research, VOC, and building detailed demand forecasts for the assigned portfolio.
• Manage product lifecycle and pricing, including monitoring competition, adjusting pricing, and supporting key customer communications.
• Enable Efficient Business Operations by accurate forecasting, partnering with Demand planners, Sales operations on product allocations teams and creating customer communication related to supply.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Life Sciences, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in marketing.
• Extensive experience and a proven track record of product launches and execution.
• Extensive experience with value proposition formulation, market research, media and communication planning.
• Exceptional presentation skills, strong ability to influence, drive teams and lead projects and lead indirect teams to successful completion are required.
• Fluency in English and German.

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.

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.