Chief of Staff for Structural Heart Western Europe (Unfilled) in Milano, Italy

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

Are you ready to take a key role within a leading MedTech global organization as a core member of the Leadership Team responsible for driving alignment between business planning, communications, finance, functional initiatives to deliver results supported by a consistent, transparent, and cohesive leadership strategy for Structural Heart in Western Europe? Do you wish to provide project management, tactical support, communications, and effective operating mechanisms to implement projects, strategic initiatives and any other activity which would require shared agreement and action among the leadership team of Structural Heart in the region? If yes, we are looking for you!

As a Chief of Staff for Western Europe, you will partner with the regional OU Leadership Team to identify, prioritize, scope, manage, and deliver on critical strategic projects to augment our commercial capabilities and deliver results on collective strategic decisions. You will also bridge gaps among functions, between headquarters and the field to achieve and exceed strategic goals. In the role, you will augment Western Europe ability to execute strategically on critical projects to deliver and exceed current and future yearly goals.

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

• Act as a trusted advisor to the Leadership Team and work with the leaders to ensure the appropriate progression, support, and visibility for a variety of initiatives sponsored by the leadership team

• Align with the Leadership Team, proactively address pressing business issues that need immediate attention

• Lead projects for selected strategic business initiatives from ideation to implementation

• Help lead and initiate change throughout the organization

• Help strategic ideas take root and provide early facilitation until a more formal project is established

• Think strategically while providing tactical support to implement ideas

• Proactively escalate and resolve potential issues by calling them to the attention of the Council, eventually identifying potential solutions with all the supporting functions where needed

• Lead processes aimed to deliver, monitor, and communicate progress towards goals for Leadership Team

• Analyze and report on performance-based strategy and business goals, eventually recommending areas needing improvement through continued enhancements in ownership, transparency, and accountability

• Champion innovation across Council, eventually recommending programs or projects, as well as conceptualizing and developing new approaches

Required knowledge and experience

• At least a 7-year experience in project management with proven outstanding results

• Strong analytical, planning, organization, and time management skills to effectively develop and execute comprehensive programs and budgets

• Demonstrated track record of leading within complex organizations requiring strong team leadership and influencing skills

• Advanced management and leadership knowledge to lead cross-department project teams or manage across multiple functions

• Typically has achieved mastery within a specific technical or broad expertise across multiple related disciplines.

• Strong Negotiations Skills and Agreement Negotiations Experience

• A Master’s Degree, preferably in Business or Engineering, is preferred

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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. 

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.

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.

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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.

We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You’re shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

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