Vice President

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

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

• Responsible for planning and directing all activities for a product group or service group within a geographical region.
• Implements operational strategy and efficiency improvements.
• Responsible for developing, implementing, monitoring and achieving strategic plans for advancing the company's products and/or services to meet market demands within the geographic area of responsibility, working within the general financial plans provided by corporate management.
• Directs, through functional executives, all or most related operational, administrative and financial functions.
• Coordinates regional operations with the assistance of corporate management.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVES CAREER STREAM: Business, region, and function heads providing strategic vision and/or tactical / strategic direction across multiple functions or sub-functions. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, directing the responsibilities of employees. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and/or indirect reports.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Manages a sub-function / function for a sub-region / sub-business unit, or all operations within a country including multiple teams led by Directors and /or Senior Directors.
Provides goals and objectives for a significant function/sub-function or business unit .
Performs work independently, within corporate guidelines.

Organizational Impact: Leads the development and authorization of the short to mid-term strategies for own organization (ie, sub-function / function for a region / business unit, or all operations within a country).
Accountable for achievement of overall results for own organization (ie, sub-function / function for a region / business unit, or all operations within a country).
Management authority to make significant business and strategic decisions including control of planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and approving changes to methods and practices.
Decisions have major long-term impact on the success, failure, profitability and growth of own area of responsibility.
Typically has budget or P&L accountability for the business unit across geographies, divisions, product groups or service groups.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are highly complex, undefined, and require extensive information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.
Problems typically impact several major job areas, businesses or functions and require in-depth knowledge of the company, competitive environment, technology and economic or social implications of organization activities.
Participates in development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria .

Communication and Influence: Communicates with parties within and outside of own job function, and typically has responsibilities for communicating with parties external to the organization, which may include customers or vendors.
Requires ability to communicate with senior executive leadership regarding matters of strategic importance to the organization .
Frequently conducts executive strategy and planning sessions with to senior leaders both within and outside of the job function .
Influences across functions and businesses to negotiate and gain cooperation on divergent objectives.

Leadership and Talent Management: Manages a sub-function / function for a region / business unit, or all operations within a country which includes multiple teams led by Directors and Managers .
Determines organizational structure and develops talent strategies .
Authorizes hiring, firing, promotion and reward authority within own area.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires specialized business knowledge, general management and leadership capability to lead multiple business or functional teams.
Typically has deep domain expertise in one or more functional areas within the organization, combining theory, past practical experience and the organization's business practices.
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 15 years prior relevant experience; with Masters or other advanced degree, minimum 13 years prior relevant experience, minimum of 13 years of managerial 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. 

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.
 

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

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here  
 

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