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 lifesaving work of medical professionals inspires us. Through partnerships with medical communities around the globe, we create advances in medical devices and supply products to improve lives. From reducing surgery time to accelerating healing, our breakthrough solutions are a vital part of daily healthcare delivery. Through progressive thinking and cutting-edge technologies, Medtronic is well positioned to lead the way in today's rapidly changing healthcare industry. As a global, $32+ billion healthcare products leader, we deliver outstanding results and innovative solutions for challenging problems.

The Country Sales Manager (m/f/d) - Cardiac Surgery, Germany plays a pivotal role in overseeing and leading the sales force within this region. Reporting directly to the Senior Business Manager for the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Germany, this position is responsible for driving the success of the cardiac surgery portfolio sales, ensuring the execution of strategic goals, and aligning the team with organizational priorities. The Country Manager will be tasked with managing, motivating, and developing the German sales team, fostering a high-performance culture and delivering on revenue targets. This role requires a combination of strong leadership, deep knowledge of the cardiac surgery market, and the ability to collaborate across regions to drive overall business success.

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

• Ensure that the team will sell the full range of Cardiac Surgery products in a professional manner to hospitals and related healthcare professionals as well as being responsible for the quality and consistency of product and service delivery

• Maximise and increase product market share growth and profitability through achieving targets and ensure that they have a healthy product pipeline and display strong protect and secure strategies

• Prepare the annual budget and accurate forecasting vs annual operating plan (AOP) and ensure its respected during the year

• Organize the sales force in the most effective and efficient way

• Manage, develop, motivate and coach all employees on your team and promote an effective communication flow within your team and ensure that all necessary information is properly transferred to the sales force

• Ensure that the annual performance appraisal process takes place and the hiring of skilled and talented personnel

• Identify and resolve client concerns when the team require high level of decision making

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• +3 years of track record of people coaching/development

• Account management, selling to procurement level customers, as well as product launch, territory planning and forecasting experience

• Bachelor's degree or similar healthcare qualification

• Strong business acumen as well as organizational and cross functional business agility with the ability to spot business opportunities and to persuade and influence others

• A minimum of seven years’ experience in medical device sales and a true understanding of the German healthcare system

• Demonstrated track record of sales success in tender management, account conversion and procedural selling and experience with tenders/frameworks

• Fluent German and English skills, both written/spoken

Previous people management experience and/or cardiac surgery & perfusion background would be a distinct advantage.

There is a Measles facility-based immunization requirement for this position. Therefore, full Measles immunization is a requirement to fill the open position.

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here (http://www.medtronic.com)

Welcome to our new Careers Site!

If you applied before July 22nd, please check your email for a notification from us providing you with instructions and a link to set up your new account and retain access to your current activity. If you do not see an email from us, please feel free to proceed with creating a new account.

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

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.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here (https://www.e-verify.gov/employees) .

For updates on job applications, please go to the candidate login page and sign in to check your application status.

If you need assistance completing your application please email AskHR@medtronic.com

To request removal of your personal information from our systems please email RS.HRCompliance@medtronic.com