Medical Affairs Specialist

About the role

Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life: Are you passionate about improving how work gets done and building connections across teams to drive operational excellence? Medtronic is seeking a Medical Affairs Specialist to support business process excellence across the Clinical, Medical Affairs & HEPR (CMAH) organization. This role will serve as a key partner across functions, helping to strengthen collaboration, improve process consistency, and support effective execution of critical business activities. The Medical Affairs Specialist will work closely with stakeholders across CMAH to coordinate and improve business processes, reporting, metrics, and governance activities. This role will help ensure consistent approaches to planning, reporting, and operational execution while identifying opportunities to streamline processes, enhance transparency, and improve organizational effectiveness. Through partnership and attention to detail, the Specialist will support the adoption of best practices and help drive consistency across functions. If you enjoy solving operational challenges, working across teams, and turning information into actionable insights, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on how CMAH functions collaborate, operate, and deliver results.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a liaison for Clinical, Medical Affairs & HEPR (CMAH) functions to facilitate communication, coordination, and alignment on operational activities and initiatives.
• Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of standardized business processes, tools, templates, and documentation to promote consistency across CMAH.
• Coordinate the collection, validation, and consolidation of data to support consistent reporting, metrics, dashboards, and business reviews.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify process gaps, operational challenges, and opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency, and effectiveness.
• Monitor key operational activities and proactively identify, communicate, and escalate risks, issues, and dependencies to appropriate leaders and stakeholders.
• Facilitate the adoption of established processes and best practices while supporting continuous improvement efforts that enhance operational performance and consistency.
• May analyze data and business trends to develop reports, provide insights, and support decision-making across CMAH functions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required