General Director, Health Economics Reimbursement Policy at Medtronic in Jacksonville, Florida

Job Description:

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 22 Nov 2024

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 Health Economics Reimbursement Policy (HEPR) Director for Medtronic's Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) Operating Unit will serve in a highly visible and impactful role as the business's primary reimbursement leader to support global reimbursement strategy development, new business development, evidence planning, and product launch support for the respective therapies in ENT. This leadership position will be focused on understanding and communicating the global clinical and economic evidence requirements for gaining public and private payer coverage and sustainable payments. This individual will also develop and communicate business unit and therapy-specific global reimbursement strategy to include all coding, coverage, and payment considerations.

This individual will collaborate with regional and local country reimbursement and market access colleagues (including the US market) to support the establishment and maintenance of reimbursement and coverage in target geographies and support the execution of reimbursement strategic plans. This individual is responsible for developing and executing global and geography-specific strategic plans to meet payer and provider stakeholder requirements for reimbursement.

Additionally, this individual will partner with members of the Neurosciences Reimbursement Leadership Team, Corporate Health Policy, and Payment leaders, along with the operating unit, region, country, and functional leaders to adopt the long-term clinical and economic evidence strategy required to obtain and maintain reimbursement by country.

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

• Manages and provides guidance to the HEPR ENT team regarding strategic reimbursement direction and initiatives aligned with key business priorities.


• Creates and executes comprehensive market access strategies by integrating pricing and reimbursement, health technology assessment, evidence-based medicine review, and health economic modeling activities.


• Designs, develops, and implements an integrated approach to all aspects of the payer value proposition from early development through and beyond the loss of exclusivity.


• Communicates the unique attributes of the therapeutic area drugs/medical devices to external multi-stakeholders to ensure the drug's/device's value proposition will be recognized and maximize market uptake.


• Works collectively with payers, including HTA, reimbursement influencers, and other decision-makers, to ensure the continuously changing reimbursement systems remain fair to all involved parties.


• Develops strategic studies with the end customer in mind to ensure that the results will favorably impact pricing, reimbursement, market access, and market uptake.


• Conducts quantitative and qualitative pricing research.


• Works with Health Economics/Outcomes Research to design pricing strategy.

Must-Have: Minimum Requirements

• 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 relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience.

Nice to Have

• Demonstrated strong influence management skills and ability to lead teams and work effectively across competing organizations.


• The ability to research and strategically apply technical reimbursement knowledge to a variety of business situations.


• Demonstrated competence in international reimbursement, coding, coverage, and payment, and a key understanding of health care economics with multi-government health care systems.


• Master's degree in health policy, business administration, public administration, or a related discipline.


• Experience in Medical Device or Pharmaceutical Industry Health Policy / Strategic Reimbursement experience


• Experience with industry clinical trial management

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):$204,800.00 - $307,200.00

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.

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).

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 90,000+ 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.