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Manager, Medical Evidence & Information

MED Medtronic Inc
Full-time
On-site
USA-MN Mounds View Central United States of America
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 24 Nov 2025


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 Cardiac Rhythm Management operating group is a division within Medtronic focused on developing and manufacturing medical devices and solutions for the management of cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure. This group’s product portfolio includes implantable pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices, and remote monitoring systems. CRM’s mission is to improve patient outcomes and quality of life by providing innovative therapies for the detection, prevention, and treatment of abnormal heart rhythms. The group collaborates closely with healthcare professionals and leverages advanced technology and data-driven insights to drive improvements in cardiac care.

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 will be based in Mounds View, MN.

The Manager, Medical Evidence & Information leads a staff that is responsible for clinical evaluation and medical information. This role ensures alignment across evidence generation, scientific content development and external communication to support product safety, performance, and general use data. The role involves managing a wealth of information about products and treatments, ensuring that accurate, evidence-based, and up-to-date information is readily available to regulators, healthcare professionals, and patients. Success in the role depends not only on deep scientific knowledge but also on effective communication, strategic thinking, and operational leadership. The manager fosters collaboration, drives operational excellence, and ensures timely, accurate, and strategic dissemination of medical and scientific information.

Expert in verbal and written scientific communications, scientific literature search, synthesis, and communication; and global medical device regulatory processes. Skilled in customer interactions, including working directly with physicians to answer complex technical and medical questions to ensure patient safety.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead and develop team members across Medical Information and Clinical Evaluation groups.
  • Oversee staff, processes and functional practices to ensure evidence SMEs are adequately planning and implementing Clinical Evaluation requirements, Corporate Off-Label policies and responses to medical inquiries.
  • Ensure consistency and scientific rigor in evidence communication across internal and external stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional managers and leaders across Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, R&D, etc., to ensure alignment on resourcing, evidence needs and funding.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline processes and enhance cross-functional impact.
  • Develop forward-looking functional recommendations to proactively identify opportunities for strategic dissemination that optimize healthcare professionals access to scientifically sound and balanced information
  • Translate complex scientific and medical information into clear, accessible language for diverse audiences, including clinicians, healthcare providers, patients, caregivers, and regulators.
  • Manage performance of staff including promotion and rewards planning, hiring and performance management as needed
  • Provide periodic communication to senior leaders, particularly in areas requiring negotiation of challenging topics (e.g., regulatory issue or changes, impacts to schedules and budgets)
  • Develop and/or manage functional KPIs that demonstrate the impact and value of the team

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.

  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • Minimum of 5+ years of clinical research, medical information, medical writing or engineering environment
  • or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years clinical research, medical information, medical writing or engineering experience

Nice to Have

  • Experience managing people
  • Demonstrated knowledge of physiology and/or applicable disease states, medical terminology, CRM therapies and technologies
  • Advanced degree in life sciences, medicine, or a related field (e.g., MS, MD, PharmD, PhD).
  • Excellent organizational and project management skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills
  • Familiarity with off-label requirements and policies as well as international regulatory requirements and knowledge of standards relevant to clinical evaluation concepts (e.g. ISO 14155, ISO 14971, MedDev 2.7.1 rev 4, etc.)
  • Demonstrated ability to work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors
  • Demonstrated ability to coach team on how to translate various types of technical and clinical data (including engineering and marketing data) into a device safety and performance context across technology types and therapeutic areas

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):$132,000.00 - $198,000.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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).

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

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 95,000+ 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.

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic”) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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