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A Day in the Life
We are seeking a committed professional to join our team. While this is a remote position not located at a physical Medtronic site, the candidate hired will be required to reside within the territory and drive to multiple accounts throughout the region. A valid driver's license is essential for this role.
Bring your sales talents to a leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions. Rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation, our medical technologies open doors. We support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Join us for a career in sales that changes lives.
The Surgical Operating Unit strives to enable earlier diagnosis, better treatment, faster complication-free recovery, and enhanced patient outcomes through less invasive surgical solutions across the care continuum. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.
The District Manager is responsible for driving sales growth, managing a team, and ensuring the achievement of business objectives within a designated territory. This role involves talent development, budget management, strategic planning, and collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders.
Job Responsibilities:
- Hire, develop, and retain talent to create a culture of execution and performance through field coaching, strategic guidance, and field visit follow-up.
- Build and advance a District Sales business plan and forecast to meet and/or exceed sales quotas while driving market growth.
- Talent Management: Ensure each seller meets and/or exceeds sales objectives through coaching and developing talent.
- Manage P&L Budget: including govern financial activities within allocated budgets while making strategic discretionary spending decisions.
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- Cultivate and maintain key customer relationships with at least 3-5 key stakeholders, including Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) and senior supply chain administrators.
- Partner across businesses with Surgical Leaders, Strategic Accounts Directors, and Enterprise teams to drive a unified sales strategy.
- Collaborate with internal teams such as Marketing, Finance, and Product Development to align strategies based on market insights and competition.
Success Metrics:
- Achieve total district and strategic product quota by growing market share and reducing churn.
- Maintain performance consistency across quarters.
- Ensure pricing and contract compliance/discipline.
- Develop and retain high-potential talent, with a clear succession pipeline.
- Manage pipeline opportunities and improve forecasting accuracy.
Alignment & Focus Areas:
- Oversee a full U.S. Surgical Portfolio, including stapling, energy, electrosurgery, wound closure, and hernia-related products.
- Align with key customer and territory stakeholders, including SAM, GYN, HS, SOS, and RSS in the district.
- Drive sales in FY26 focus products, including Signia Shells, LigaSave Exact, Core Suture, Progrip, and more.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Promotes and sells Medtronic's Minimally Invasive Therapies products and services within an assigned geographic area and /or specific customer accounts to meet or exceed sales targets.
- Responsible for developing, building, and strengthening long-term relationships with stakeholders including key opinion leaders and related major medical associations and academic centers of excellence.
- Responsible for pursuing leads, assessing needs and providing product services to maximize the benefits derived from Medtronic's Minimally Invasive Therapies products and/or services.
- Collaborates across key internal stakeholder groups (finance, sales operations, marketing, OEM, etc.) as well as peers to identify and address trends and to support business goals and strategy.
- Conducts and/or evaluates market research including customers and competitors activities.
- Develops and/or implements market development plans/strategies and changes as needed.
- Assesses customer needs and feedback regarding new products and/or modifications to existing products and communicates to internal stakeholders including R&D, Operations and Marketing.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
- Bachelors degree required
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant sales experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant sales and leadership experience
Nice to Have
- Experience with Medtronic Surgical Sales or external sales experience within surgical
- Successful completion of a Medtronic leadership development program, such as Emerging Leaders Development, and successful completion of a Regional Manager training program.
- Previous people leadership experience
- Business Acumen, Knowledge of Energy and Surgical Devices markets and COV performance in these markets, ability to analyze regional sales potential, leading and coaching abilities, Drive for Results, Ethics & Values, Evidence-based Medicine, Functional Technical Skills, Integrity & Trust, Interpersonal Savvy, Listening, Negotiating, Priority Setting, Problem Solving
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.
U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship
At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
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