Neuromodulation Business Director, Dach

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**:
**Careers that Change Lives**
Medtronic, is among the world's largest medical technology, services and solutions companies - alleviating pain, restoring health and extending life for millions of people around the world.

Medtronic employs more than 90,000 people worldwide, serving physicians, hospitals and patients in approx. 160 countries. The company is focused on collaborating with stakeholders around the world to take healthcare Further, together.

**A Day in the Life**
The Neuromodulation (NM) DACH Business Director has the pivotal role to establish, drive and execute the Operating Unit (OU) vison and strategic business plans in the DACH Region.

As the Neuromodulation (NM) DACH Business Director you will contribute to the attainment of financial and operational goals within the Operating Units in support of the company's overall financial and strategic objectives with full P&L responsibilities.

You will be responsible for providing commercial & marketing leadership and strategic direction for Medtronic’s NM portfolio across the region.

You will drive cross functional teams to achieve and exceed revenue, market share, and operating margin targets while positioning the business for sustainable long-term growth.

Business Management
- Develop and execute commercial plans to achieve short-term and long-term objectives.
- Directly contribute to the attainment of financial and operational goals within the OU and country/region in support of the overall financial and strategic objectives.
- Establish budgets, short and long-range objectives and criteria for monitoring progress and measuring success.
- Ensure sales strategies are aligned to Operating Unit strategies and that support to the field is in place.
- Oversee new product/market introductions, sales training programs, key customers/key account visits and attendance at key industry congresses and meetings.
- Provide strategy and direction for ongoing business development, implementation of marketing plans, development of sales and market development objectives and tools, and growth of the business for the region.
- Maintain long-range NM sales and marketing plans for the Region.
- Build long term productive and mutually beneficial relationships with NM key decision makers and key opinion leaders.
- Effectively engage and coordinate with sales leadership, and marketing functions to establish a coordinated customer approach through consistent communication.
- Continuously work to gain proficiency pertaining to the industry, the market, and the company’s evolving customer value offering.
- Ensure close and effective cooperation with Western Europe Marketing to implement global and local initiatives.
- Support highest standards of Quality processes.
- Provide business intelligence insights and competitive activities such as launches and commercial strategies, through marketing organization.

Integrative People Leadership
- Leads and builds a high performing and highly engaged team, that consists of approximately 50 FTE’s across the region, by fostering leadership and employee involvement, enhancing teamwork and accountability.
- Provides opportunities for personal growth and advancement of reports, owning specific initiatives to achieve GIDE goals.
- Designs and maximizes opportunities for talent development by making superior decisions as to how to deploy and develop them. Accelerates the development of others, differentiating opportunities and purposefully creating progressive experiences.
- Builds effective teams through hiring and development of direct reports, using performance management techniques including mentoring, rewards and recognition when appropriate, and discipline when necessary.
- Provides opportunity for success and career advancement of all its employees by ensuring they receive necessary and appropriate training for their job function.
- Provides opportunities for personal growth and advancement of reports.
- Coordinate with other OU Leaders to ensure alignment of sales with other business functions to facilitate achievement of overall company strategic objectives.
- Promotes a trusting and progressive culture within the team and develops a broad set of collaborative relationships across the organization, connects well and empathically with other areas.
- Leverages matrix relationships to influence and align others.
- Demonstrate highest ethical and compliance standards through actions and example.

Change / Transformation Leadership
- Leads the transformation of building trusted partnership relations with our largest customers (Strategic and IHS), increasing the focus on dedicated therapies and establishing innovative Go-to-Market strategies and multi-channel sal