Evidence Manager

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 5 May 2025

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

The Manager of Scientific Communication and Evidence Planning will lead a team responsible for bridging scientific research and commercial teams, ensuring the alignment and dissemination of key scientific messages and evidence. This role involves strategic planning, publication management, and maintaining scientific and medical expertise to support business activities and market needs. The manager provides leadership input into organizational structure, performance standards, compliance, project planning, budgeting, resource management, and technical leadership skills to the Medical Affairs function while also coaching and developing those within the Scientific Communications team. The manager builds and develops a best-in-class functional team. The manager is responsible for ensuring the team possesses the appropriate mix and level of skills required to develop and deliver high quality evidence in a dynamic growth environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including marketing, medical science, medical education, clinical research, regulatory, R&D, R&T, HEPR, and others to ensure successful projects and deliver high-quality evidence.

Our Cardiac Rhythm Management Integrated Operating Unit offers devices and therapies that treat patients with abnormal heart rhythms and heart failure. It is comprised of four key businesses: Cardiac Pacing Therapies, Defibrillation Solutions, Patient Management, and Procedure Innovations. Together, we will transform the lives of people with cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure.

Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds, and their individual life experiences to work every day. It’s no accident — we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it’s the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions. To learn more about Inclusion & Diversity at Medtronic Click Here.

Careers that Change Lives 

The Manager of Scientific Communication and Evidence Planning will lead a team responsible for bridging scientific research and commercial teams, ensuring the alignment and dissemination of key scientific messages and evidence. This role involves strategic planning, publication management, and maintaining scientific and medical expertise to support business activities and market needs. The manager provides leadership input into organizational structure, performance standards, compliance, project planning, budgeting, resource management, and technical leadership skills to the Medical Affairs function while also coaching and developing those within the Scientific Communications team. The manager builds and develops a best-in-class functional team. The manager is responsible for ensuring the team possesses the appropriate mix and level of skills required to develop and deliver high-quality evidence in a dynamic environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including marketing, medical science, medical education, clinical research, regulatory, R&D, R&T, HEPR, and others to ensure successful projects and deliver high-quality evidence.

Location: Mounds View, MN

Ability to travel up to 10%. 

A Day in the Life

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

• Lead a team of employees and contingents, setting goals, conducting performance reviews, and providing mentorship.

• Coach and guide the delivery of evidence planning and scientific communication deliverables, ensuring adherence to best practices.

• Collaborate across the organization to implement and maintain robust evidence development processes, including prioritization and data disclosure.

• Build strong relationships with internal teams to enhance collaboration across the evidence development process (EDP).

• Guide team members in developing a framework for identifying and prioritizing evidence gaps by region and stakeholder/HCP.

• Stay updated on trends in publication practices and congress collaboration opportunities, recommending innovative solutions.

• Ensure teams monitor insights and engage in HCP and stakeholder consultations, identifying new opportunities for effective consultation.

• Partner with leadership to define an approach to integrated scientific communication strategy and planning.

• Implement the CRM external publication review process effectively.

• Provide technical oversight, coaching, and support to develop team members.

• Monitor team productivity, offering constructive feedback, coaching, and training regularly.

• Manage budgeting, forecasting, and resource allocation.

• Provide regular status reports and performance metrics to management and key stakeholders.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5 years of clinical research/medical affairs/scientific dissemination planning experience

OR

• Advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of clinical research/medical affairs/scientific dissemination planning experience

Nice to Have

• PhD, MD, or PharmD degree

• Proficient knowledge of physiology and/or applicable disease states, medical terminology, CRM therapies and technologies

• Experience in Market Development or Therapy Awareness initiatives

• Experience working with physicians/key opinion leaders in an industry or clinical setting

• Experience authoring peer-reviewed manuscript and abstract presentations at major scientific conferences

• Working knowledge of relevant medical writing guidelines (e.g. AMA) and current industry publication standards (ICMJE, GPP, etc.)

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

• Experience with literature reviews (meta-analysis experience a plus)

• Working knowledge of biostats and clinical trial design

• Strong team player and the ability to adapt to competing priorities

About Medtronic
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be. 

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future. 

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. (ADA-United States of America).

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.

Learn more about our benefits at benefits.medtronic.com.

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):$130,400.00 - $195,600.00This 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.

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

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.