Contract Performance Management Product Owner

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.

As Contract Performance Management Product Owner for Western Europe, you own a holistic solution that integrates process, data and technology to monitor and optimize contract execution. Using new or existing tools, you provide transparency and insights that enable sales teams to track performance & compliance, follow up proactively, and unlock greater customer value.

Your scope will cover Western Europe (WE), and you will report to the Director, WE Contracting Offer & Tender Chief Product Owner. You are expected to work from your local office four days per week.

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

• Product Ownership: Own the vision, technical roadmap, and backlog for a holistic contract performance management solution that integrates process, data and technology. Ensure strong alignment with the Value Stream Management team and oversee end-to-end solution delivery
• Value Delivery & Business Insight: Ensure the product delivers measurable business value by improving contract transparency, performance & compliance, and follow-up efficiency
• Understand sales priorities, identify untapped revenue opportunities in contracts, and filter noise to focus on what truly matters. Define precise, actionable requirements and leverage dashboards, analytics, and reporting tools to provide transparency and actionable insights that enable proactive follow-up and unlock greater customer value
• Adoption & Change Management: Drive adoption across sales and business teams, guiding them through process and technology transitions, embedding new ways of working, and ensuring promised outcomes are realized
• Prioritization & Problem-Solving: Make trade-off and prioritization decisions, manage dependencies, and resolve risks to maintain delivery momentum. Oversee budget and POD resource allocation
• Agile Leadership: Lead and coordinate the Agile delivery pod, promoting an agile mindset while ensuring high-quality outcomes and effective collaboration with vendors, process owners, and deployment teams
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with Pricing & Contracting Value Stream Management, Functions, Sales, and Finance teams to align business requirements with technology and processes. Contribute to cross-regional product owner communities to share best practices and align on standards

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, IT, Finance, or a related field (Master's degree preferred)
• 5+ years creating dashboards, performing analytics, and generating actionable insights to support data-driven decision-making within contract management, performance management, or business balanced scorecards
• Strong understanding of contract content and structures, combined with database and analytics skills to turn data into actionable insights. Experienced with reporting and visualization platforms such as SAP BusinessObjects, Power BI, or similar tools, and able to translate business needs into meaningful outputs
• Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum), including backlog management, writing user stories, and effective feature prioritization, as well as a solid grasp of contract lifecycle processes, compliance requirements, and sales/finance operations
• Ability to understand sales priorities, identify revenue opportunities, reduce noise, and define clear requirements that maximize value; skilled in using data and insights to enable proactive follow-up and value capture
• Excellent collaboration, influencing, and communication skills; adept at driving adoption, guiding teams through change, embedding new ways of working, and engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders

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.

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.

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

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.