Director - Pelvic Health Society & Physician Relations

Director - Pelvic Health Society & Physician Relations

At Medtronic Neuroscience, we bring innovation, expertise, and purpose together to improve care for people living with neurological, spinal, and chronic pain conditions. Our technologies help restore function, improve quality of life, and support better outcomes for patients around the world.

Pelvic Health advances care for patients managing bladder and bowel control conditions. Through proven neuromodulation therapies, we help clinicians offer treatment options that can restore confidence, independence, and everyday quality of life.

The Director - Pelvic Health Society & Physician Relations is a strategic leader responsible for developing and executing physician, faculty, fellowship, and professional society engagement strategies that advance Medtronic's Pelvic Health priorities. This role translates business objectives into impactful physician partnerships that support innovation, therapy awareness, and patient access across the Pelvic Health market. The Director builds and manages relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), physician faculty, emerging clinical leaders, fellowship directors, professional societies, academic institutions, and other key stakeholders.

This leader leverages deep knowledge of the physician and professional society landscape to identify partnerships and programs that influence physician education, clinical practice, patient identification, treatment pathways, and access to care. A key responsibility is developing a sustainable physician leadership pipeline by engaging established and emerging KOLs, fellowship programs, and academic leaders to cultivate the next generation of Pelvic Health physicians. The Director leads a team focused on resident and fellow engagement, society partnerships, and KOL/faculty management, setting strategy, priorities, and execution for high-visibility initiatives.

This remote role supports Medtronic's patient-first mission through cross-functional collaboration and requires up to 50-60% travel.

Primary responsibilities:

• Develop and execute the overall Pelvic Health physician, KOL, faculty, fellowship, and professional society engagement strategy aligned with key business, therapy, and patient-access priorities.
• Identify, cultivate, and manage relationships with established and emerging KOLs and physician leaders across relevant Pelvic Health specialties.
• Lead faculty strategy, including the identification, development, engagement, and appropriate deployment of physician faculty across priority educational and strategic initiatives.
• Build strategic relationships with priority professional societies and develop partnership plans that advance physician education, disease awareness, clinical practice, patient advocacy and access, and appropriate treatment.
• Develop relationships with fellowship program directors and academic institutions to support the growth of a sustainable pipeline of future clinical leaders.
• Identify and develop innovative partnerships and programs with physicians, societies, academic institutions, and other stakeholders that support Pelvic Health strategic priorities and help expand patient access to therapy.
• Lead complex partnership discussions and negotiations, aligning internal and external stakeholders around shared objectives and meaningful outcomes.
• Partner across Medical Education, Marketing, Commercial, Clinical, Medical Affairs, Health Economics/Reimbursement, Legal, Compliance, and other functions to translate strategy into executable programs and initiatives.
• Provide Pelvic Health leadership with insights into the evolving physician, society, academic, and competitive landscape, identifying emerging opportunities, needs, and potential risks.
• Establish priorities and measures of success for physician engagement and strategic partnerships, evaluating impact and continuously refining investments and programs.
• Ensure physician and society engagements are conducted in accordance with Medtronic policies, applicable regulations, and Legal and Compliance requirements.
• Ability to travel up to 50-60% of time.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of people or program managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of people or program managerial experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Significant experience building and managing relationships with physicians, KOLs, professional societies, academic institutions, and other senior external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success developing and executing strategic programs and partnerships that drive measurable organizational, market, or patient impact.
• Significant experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives and influencing across highly matrixed organizations.
• Experience leading external negotiations and managing sophisticated physician, society, or healthcare partnerships.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams, set strategic direction, develop talent, and drive accountability for execution and results.
• Experience within Pelvic Health, Urology, Urogynecology, Colorectal, Women's Health, Neuromodulation, or another procedure-based medical device specialty.
• Experience developing KOL, faculty, and physician engagement strategies.
• Experience working with national professional societies, academic institutions, fellowship programs, and emerging physician leaders.
• Experience supporting new therapy introduction, market development, or significant changes in clinical practice.
• Strong understanding of healthcare compliance requirements governing physician and professional society engagement.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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.

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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):$196,000.00 - $294,000.00This 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.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, and Simple 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), and Capital Accumulation Plan