Reimbursement Director - HEPR, Surgical

Health Economics, Policy, and Reimbursement (HEPR) Director

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.

The Medical Surgical Portfolio strives to enable earlier diagnosis, better treatment, faster complication-free recovery, and enhanced patient outcomes through less invasive surgical solutions. At Medtronic, you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion health care access to therapies that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

The Health Economics, Policy, and Reimbursement (HEPR) Director leads the development and execution of strategies to achieve market access and demonstrate therapy value in order to expand patient access to Medtronic Surgical therapies in the US and globally. The Surgical HEPR Director reports to the Sr. Director, HEPR, Surgical.

The Health Economics, Policy, and Reimbursement (HEPR) Director will serve in a highly visible and impactful role to support global reimbursement strategy development, new business development, evidence planning, and product launch support for the respective therapies in the Medical Surgical portfolio. This leadership position will be focused on understanding and communicating the global clinical and economic evidence requirements for gaining market access 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 position collaborates 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. Working with our global and European teams, this individual is responsible for developing and executing global and geography-specific strategic plans to meet payer and provider stakeholder requirements for reimbursement.

In this role, the incumbent will partner with members of the Surgical HEPR team, Corporate Health Policy and Payment leaders, and 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.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We're working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This position can be based in Minneapolis, MN (Mounds View), Lafayette, CO, North Haven, CT or Boston, MA.

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

• Manages and provides guidance to the Surgical HEPR team regarding strategic reimbursement direction and initiatives aligned with key business priorities.
• Creates and executes comprehensive market access strategies by integrating reimbursement, health technology assessment, evidence-based medicine review, pricing, 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.
• Represents the HEPR function in OU core team and product development processes to ensure that global reimbursement and payer evidence development needs (clinical and economic) can be addressed early in the product development process.
• Engages on a collaborative basis with functions including Clinical Research and Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Marketing, R&D, Business Development & Strategy, Sales, Finance, and Government Affairs (among others) to assure that HEPR topics and interests are addressed comprehensively throughout the business.
• Communicates the unique attributes of Surgical therapies to external multi-stakeholders to ensure the therapies' 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 reimbursement, market access, pricing, and market uptake.
• Works with the Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) team to conceptualize evidence development strategies that will build the evidence base for Medical Surgical therapies and position them strategically in the marketplace.
• Engages with the US Field & Customer Support team (regional economic managers) to ensure hospital and physician customers are educated about available reimbursement for Surgical therapies.

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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. 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 via a variety of media including telephone, email, instant message and in-person meetings. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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) : $204,000.00 - $306,000.00. 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. 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, and Simple 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), and Capital 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.

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