Principal Product Specialist (Vascular)

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

At Medtronic, you can begin a lifelong career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to progress in a more connected, compassionate world. Today, amid a technological revolution, we are more than a medical device company, we are an innovation company. Our portfolio is setting new standards through disruptive technologies that enhance the physician experience and deliver better outcomes for patients worldwide.

We are seeking a strategic and collaborative Principal Product Specialist to manage our Vascular Portfolio. This role will guide and align marketing initiatives across stakeholders in the territory, ensuring consistency with regional and global strategy while adapting to local market dynamics. This is a hybrid role based in São Paulo, Brazil, with 50% of the time allocated to travel. This is a Principal role, which means you will hold a leadership position without having direct reports.

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

• Serve as a strategic partner to sales teams, offering clear guidance, actionable insights, and tactical support, as well as cultivating and sustaining strong relationships with vascular surgeons, medical societies, and Key Opinion Leaders

• Ensure brand consistency and message alignment across the country by leading campaigns that boost product visibility, generate demand, and create new business opportunities, while continuously evaluating performance and providing strategic recommendations for future initiatives
• Collaborate with Regional Marketing to adapt product launches, promotional content, and educational initiatives to regional needs and cultural nuances, while partnering closely with Supply Chain, Regulatory Affairs, and other internal stakeholders to ensure flawless execution and market capture possibilities.

• Lead and coordinate the development and execution of local marketing plans aligned with the regional and global OU strategy, overseeing the full product lifecycle, from launch to phase-out, while conducting competitive analysis, market research, pricing ad positioning strategy, and ensuring clear communication across sales channels

• Identifies unmet customer requirements and new business opportunities and provides vision and focus to move products from idea to marketplace, supporting Sales Training, Medical Education, and Clinical Affairs to design and deliver training programs for internal teams, healthcare professionals, and distributors, and in charge to budgeting and comply to annual policies and assumptions.
• Ensure strategic alignment and execution thru sales teams, to grant tactical and action plans towards business objectives. Close to FP&A management to achieve finance targets such as margins and op profit.

• Plan and support scientific workshops, congresses, seminars, and other key events, providing technical and exhibition support, and contributing to budgeting, logistics, and on-site execution

Required Knowledge and Experience: 

• Completed bachelor’s degree in relevant fields such as Marketing, Business, Communications, engineering or Life Sciences. 
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in the healthcare industry, preferably in marketing, or strategic roles. Portfolio Management skills/MBA in marketing will be a differentiator.
• Advanced proficiency in English is required; fluency in Spanish and Portuguese is considered a strong asset.
• Valid and up-to-date CNH B driver’s license 

We Offer

Medtronic is recognized by the Great Place to Work (GPTW) and, in 2022, reached tenth place in the ranking of best companies to work for in the industry and services category. This recognition reinforces our ongoing commitment to the well-being of our employees. Our benefits are carefully designed to promote quality of life, and this is why we work with the best suppliers on the market. Find out more about what we offer in our benefits package:

Private Pension Plan, Transport voucher, reimbursement for charter or parking, Flexible meal voucher, medical assistance and Dental assistance (for you and your legal dependents (spouses, children and stepchildren), Life insurance, Gympass, childcare assistance, pharmacy discount, ESPP (discounted share purchase program), educational subsidy + idiom program.

Wellness programs:

- Birthday Day Off

- Maternity leave 6 months + Paternity leave 20 days

- Paid Family Leave Program of up to 6 weeks.

NOTE: OPTION of transportation + hybrid work will not be available for positions in the clinical and sales areas, as well as for positions that do not have working time control.

Our Commitment

Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute. We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communities if we hope to have long-term sustainable impact. Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world.

About Medtronic

Bold thinking. Bolder actions. We are 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 90,000+ passionate people. Powered by our diverse knowledge, insatiable curiosity, and desire to help all those who need it, we deliver innovative technologies that transform the lives of two people every second, every hour, every day. Expect more from us as we empower insight-driven care, experiences that put people first, and better outcomes for our world.

In everything we do, we are engineering the extraordinary.

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.

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