We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 17 Feb 2026
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
Shape the Future of Hypertension Care
Imagine being part of a team introducing a therapy that could transform millions of lives. Renal Denervation (RDN) is a breakthrough procedure designed to help patients lower blood pressure—a condition affecting nearly half of adults worldwide. Medtronic is leading this revolution, and we’re looking for a Consultant – Patient Marketing to help bring this innovation to patients across the U.S.
Why This Role Matters
You’ll be at the forefront of one of the most exciting growth opportunities in MedTech. Your work will directly influence patient awareness and adoption of a therapy that can change lives. This is more than marketing—it’s about creating access to care and shaping a new standard in hypertension treatment.
A DAY IN THE LIFE:
This individual will lead high-visibility direct-to-patient initiatives to build awareness and drive demand for RDN. This role requires expertise in patient marketing, strong strategic thinking, and the ability to influence across a complex, matrixed organization.
Responsibilities include:
Lead Impactful Campaigns: Drive large-scale, direct-to-patient initiatives that build awareness and demand for RDN.
Maximize External Partners: Lead strong agency partnership to support flawless execution, ongoing optimization, and continued innovation
Partner Cross-functionally: Collaborate with corporate marketing, PR, HCP marketing, legal, compliance, and regulatory teams to deliver innovative, integrated, patient-centric programs. Champion the patient voice across initiatives within the business.
Optimize Performance: Use analytics and patient insights to refine programs, track results, and maximize performance.
Shape Strategy: Leverage patient research to improve patient experience across channels and inform campaigns. Maintain an eye to market trends, barriers to growth, competitive dynamics, customer needs and targeting, benefits/weaknesses, and positioning.
Collaborate with a Winning Team: partner across the global RDN patient team to execute and integrate programs as part of a broader direct-to-consumer strategy
Engage Stakeholders: Build trusted relationships with executive leadership, field teams, patients and physicians to ensure alignment and adoption, as part of a high-visibility, high accountability role.
Influence Field Teams: Develop communication strategies to engage and motivate field teams to execute marketing initiatives
Ability to travel as needed, up to 10% of the time.
Why Join Us?
This is a once-in-a-career opportunity to help launch a therapy with the potential to redefine hypertension care. You’ll work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment where your ideas matter and your impact is real.
Must Have:
Bachelor's Degree
10+ years (8+ with advanced degree) in marketing, market development, or marketing strategy
Proven expertise in direct-to-patient marketing and integrated digital campaigns in a regulated healthcare or medtech environment
Strong leadership, project management, and agency partnership experience
Excellent presentation, collaboration, and communication skills
Ability to influence across a matrixed organization and build relationships with diverse stakeholders, including patients, physicians, and sales organizations
Strategic thinker with exceptional communication and analytical skills
Preferred:
SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS
Autonomy: Recognized master in professional discipline. Works independently to implement strategic goals and establish operational plans for job area. Assignments are often self-initiated Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.
Organizational Impact: Strongly influences the design of new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on functional results . Implements strategic goals established by functional leadership. Changes or may establish operational plans for job area with long-range impact on results.
Innovation and Complexity: Faces problems that span a wide range of difficulty and unique issues across functions and / or businesses which may cause redirection . Develops solutions to unique issues Improves upon existing processes and systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation .
Communication and Influence: Interacts with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels, including executive leadership, on significant matters. Conducts briefings with senior leaders within the job function. Negotiates with others to reach understanding or agreement.
Leadership and Talent Management: Frequently provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees . Typically manages large, moderately complex initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams.
Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires mastery level knowledge of specialty area and working knowledge of several other areas, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience. May have deep knowledge of project management. Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
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.
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):$161,600.00 - $242,400.00This 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).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: 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, andSimple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: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), andCapital 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
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.
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