[Hiring] Director, Renal Denervation Health Economics, Policy & Reimbursement @Medtronic

Role Description

Interventional Cardiology Therapies (ICT) brings together Medtronic’s Structural Heart, Coronary, and Renal Denervation businesses to support interventional cardiologists and heart teams with a connected, patient-focused approach. This position is remote to enhance our competitive edge and expand our cross-functional collaboration efforts. This role will require 40% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

The Renal Denervation (RDN) Health Economics, Policy, and Reimbursement (HEPR) Director leads the development and execution of strategies to achieve payer access, demonstrate therapy value, and expand patient access to Medtronic RDN therapies in the United States and globally.

• Leads overall RDN HEPR strategy and initiatives, in alignment with business priorities and budgets.
• Responsible for connecting reimbursement and market access plans to business value and growth strategies.
• Develops and executes integrated U.S. and global market access strategies, incorporating reimbursement, health economics, evidence generation, coding, coverage, payment, and payer value proposition considerations.
• Collaborates closely with the Payer Engagement team to set and communicate priorities and execute comprehensive tactics to expand U.S. payer coverage.
• Provides strategic leadership on U.S. Medicare reimbursement pathways, including coverage and payment.
• Defines clinical and economic evidence needs and develops strategic studies with the end customer in mind.
• Collaborates closely with international HEPR and HEOR colleagues to develop and execute on global market access strategies for priority RDN markets outside the U.S.
• Represents HEPR in cross-functional leadership and product development processes.
• Collaborates closely with the U.S. field reimbursement teams to ensure hospital and physician customers are appropriately informed on therapy reimbursement.
• Partners with Clinical, Regulatory, Marketing, R&D, Business Development and Strategy, Sales, Finance, Government Affairs, and other stakeholders.
• Builds productive relationships with physicians and other external stakeholders.
• Develops and executes external engagement and advocacy strategies to support appropriate patient access and sustainable reimbursement.
• Supports commercial launch planning and execution, including physician and customer education on reimbursement and available access pathways.
• Monitors U.S. price transparency data and other market and business analytics.
• Evaluates digital health reimbursement policy changes and develops practical strategies as appropriate for RDN.
• Prioritizes work across a large portfolio, manages budgets and forecasts, and oversees external vendors.
• Leads and develops direct reports with a clear management style, effective delegation, an inclusive team mindset, and a strong sense of urgency.
• Communicates complex policy, reimbursement, clinical, and economic topics clearly in writing and verbally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in health policy, health services research, economics, biostatistics, epidemiology, public administration, clinical research or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of medical device or pharmaceutical industry health policy or strategic reimbursement experience with 7+ years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 7 years of medical device or pharmaceutical industry health policy or strategic reimbursement experience with 5+ years of managerial experience.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in health policy, business administration, public administration, or a related discipline.
• Experience with the reimbursement implications of FDA Breakthrough Device Designation (BDD) and other relevant regulatory and policy pathways.
• Demonstrated U.S. and global reimbursement experience, including experience with Medicare coverage, U.S. payment pathways, U.S. CPT processes, and commercial payer coverage.
• Experience with clinical and economic evidence development, physician engagement, external advocacy, and commercial medical device product launches.
• Strong ability to develop innovative HEPR strategies, solve problems creatively, and clearly connect HEPR activities to business value.
• Experience leading cross-functional work with clinical, regulatory, marketing, and other key stakeholders in a matrixed organization.
• People management experience, including direct reports, delegation, and inclusive team leadership.
• Strong written, verbal, and senior-level communication skills, with the ability to distill complex subjects clearly.
• Strong prioritization, budget management and forecasting, vendor management, and large-portfolio management skills.
• Comfort working with business analytics/data and developing clear, concise dashboards and reports.

Benefits

• 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
• 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)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)