Global Senior Product Operations Manager, Digital Health - Acute Care and Monitoring — Lafayette, CO
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A Day in the Life
Medtronic’s Acute Care & Monitoring (ACM) business is redefining patient monitoring through intelligent devices, software, analytics, and connectivity. Within ACM, the HealthCastTM Digital Health portfolio plays a central role in our evolution toward scalable, software-enabled and SaaS-based solutions that improve clinical decision-making and operational efficiency across care settings.
We are seeking a Global Senior Product Operations Manager – Digital Health to serve as the operational leader and integrator for our Digital Health marketing organization. This role is designed for a high‐potential, hands‐on operator who brings strong program management discipline, operational rigor, and digital product fluency — and who is eager to grow into broader digital health leadership over time.
This individual contributor role will work closely with senior Digital Health leadership and function as a trusted operating partner, helping translate strategy into execution while building the processes, cadence, and structures needed to scale SaaS and recurring‐revenue businesses.
This role includes global travel approximately 20% of the time and regularly interacts with global partners and stakeholders requiring meetings after normal business hours as needed.
A Day in the Life
You’ll act as the operational backbone of the Digital Health marketing team, owning planning cycles, managing programs, tracking execution, and coordinating across product, marketing, R&D, finance, and regions.
You’ll be deeply involved in how decisions get made, how investments are tracked, and how priorities move from idea to execution — giving you meaningful exposure to both strategy and scale.
Key Responsibilities
Product & Marketing Operations Leadership
- Own day‐to‐day product and marketing operations for the Digital Health marketing organization
- Establish and run operating rhythms (annual planning, quarterly reviews, portfolio readouts)
- Serve as the connective tissue between upstream product marketing and downstream/global marketing
- Bring structure, clarity, and predictability to how work is planned and executed
Program & Portfolio Management
- Lead cross‐functional programs spanning product strategy, launches, lifecycle management, and growth initiatives
- Track milestones, dependencies, risks, and outcomes across multiple initiatives
- Ensure alignment on priorities, sequencing, and resourcing across teams
- Proactively surface risks and tradeoffs to enable timely decision‐making
Digital Transformation & SaaS Enablement
- Support ACM’s digital and SaaS transformation by helping define and operationalize new ways of working
- Partner with Product, Finance, and Commercial teams to support subscription and recurring‐revenue models
- Help establish processes, metrics, and governance to support software KPIs (e.g., adoption, usage, renewals)
- Identify process gaps and help build scalable structures that support software‐led growth
Budget, Investment & Operating Visibility
- Own marketing operating budget management, including planning, tracking, and variance analysis
- Partner with Finance on forecasts, accruals, and investment prioritization
- Provide leadership with clear visibility into spend, progress, and outcomes
Leadership Enablement & Strategic Support
- Act as a trusted operating partner to Digital Health leadership
- Prepare executive‐level readouts, dashboards, and planning materials
- Drive follow‐through on leadership priorities and strategic initiatives
- Support key reviews, planning sessions, and cross‐functional forums
Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
- Design and evolve processes, templates, and tools to improve efficiency and consistency
- Drive adoption of best practices across product ops, marketing ops, and program management
- Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and outcome‐oriented execution
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 7+ years of experience in product operations, marketing operations, program management, or business operations or 5+ years with an advanced degree.
Nice to Have
- Experience working in digital products, digital health, healthcare technology, SaaS, or platform‐based environments (preferred but not required)
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross‐functional initiatives in a matrixed organization
- Experience supporting digital or software‐enabled business models
- Familiarity with product lifecycles, launches, and commercialization processes
- Strong financial acumen, including budgeting and investment tracking
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including for senior audiences
- MBA or advanced degree in business, healthcare, or engineering
Who This Role Is For
- A strong Sr Product Manager, Product Ops, or Program Manager looking to broaden scope
- Someone who enjoys bringing structure to complexity and making organizations work better
- An operator who complements strategic leadership and wants accelerated exposure to decision‐making, scale, and digital transformation
- Someone who thrives with high interaction with cross-functional and senior leaders
What Success Looks Like
- Clear operating cadence and alignment across upstream and downstream teams
- Improved predictability and execution across digital health initiatives
- Leadership has visibility, clarity, and confidence in plans and investments
- The organization is better positioned to scale SaaS and digital health offerings
Impact
This role is foundational to scaling ACM’s Digital Health portfolio. You will help transform how the organization operates, create leverage for leaders, and build the operational foundation for long‐term success in software‐enabled healthcare.
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Benefits & Compensation
Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$134,400.00 - $201,600.00
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