HSS Director

at  Medtronic

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.

KNOWLEDGE/EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree or
• Advanced degree
• Requires broad management knowledge and experience to lead project teams in multiple job areas.
• Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or
  professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function.

JOB EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 10 years relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience with a bachelor’s degree or
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience with advanced degree.
• Experience in leadership role within medical devices or related industry
• Experience building and leading high-performance teams toward high impact results
• Experience working in a matrix organization preferred.
• Experience working with decision makers at multiple levels of healthcare institutions,
  government authorities and advocacy groups.

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES

• Solid knowledge of the Canadian health care System, dynamics, and current issues of provincial government.
• Exceptional team building, team leading and team player skills
• Strong collaboration & communication skills for working with multiple internal & external stakeholders.
• Ability to design and lead processes that drive multiple stakeholders and competing interests toward outcomes that are mutually beneficial and better than any one party could have come up with on their own.
• Ability to form and maintain a broad network of relationships of key stakeholders.
• Ability to assess, analyze and condense complex data or situations trends, issues and opportunities for actions and responses.
• Ability to deliver complex information and to engage people behind strategies and decisions.
• Understanding of policy making process, healthcare stakeholders and institutions.
• Deep understanding of and passion for Medical Device business with capacity to learn about multiple products & their benefits to the health care system.
• Track record of turning ideas into results.
• Strong strategic selling and negotiating skills.
• Demonstrated ability to function at high level of integrity in people and business management practices.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and marketing skills.
• Innovative and creative agent of change.
• Ability to “connect the dots” and see the big picture on key issues, not just the day-today tactics.
• Keen to learn and grow within a dynamic and ever-changing environment.
• Experience in leading a new clinical approach to care in a complex system.

KNOWLEDGE/EDUCATION

• Advanced degree

JOB EXPERIENCE

• Experience working directly with decision makers at multiple levels of healthcare organizations.
• Experience with similar role in other companies.

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES

• Strong strategic account management skills & sound business acumen.
• General understanding of health technology assessment processes that relate to Medtronic therapies.
• Market access & market development skills and experience.
• SAMA Certified
• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple corporate, business unit and customer agendas.
• Advanced presentation skills.
• Competent in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other relevant software programs.
• Strong financial acumen – pricing, rebates, healthcare economic impacts.
• Experience in a matrixed, multi-line business environment.

PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Travel extensively within assigned region, and other travel mostly within Canada.
• Attend business /sales meetings and select international Health Care conferences.
• 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

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.

Please refer the Job description for details