Principal Contract Analyst

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 25 Sep 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

A Day in the Life

As a Contract Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in driving strategic initiatives and enhancing the effectiveness of our pricing and contracting strategies through comprehensive analytic, contracting, and business expertise. Your work will be crucial in shaping competitive pricing strategies and ensuring seamless contract execution. This is an ideal role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and has a passion for driving business success.

Key Responsibilities

• Pricing Strategy Development: Collaborate with sales, legal, pricing, and marketing teams to negotiate and establish pricing strategies for standard and custom products for customer contracts. Conduct thorough analysis of market trends, competitor insights, and customer needs to inform pricing decisions. Influence decision-making processes to optimize profitability and market positioning.
• Strategic Contract Management: Own strategic contracting for specific therapies and customers across the US. Lead the creation and execution of contracts encompassing price analysis, contract drafting, business reviews, and compliance monitoring.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with the Field Sales Organization and Medtronic customers to facilitate effective communication and execution of strategic initiatives. Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment with business objectives through regular reviews and proactive recommendations to drive alignment to growth and margin goals. Partner with Contracting Support teams to ensure accurate and timely contract administration.
• Quotation and Bid/RFP Management: Champion bid response through analysis of market trends and customer needs to identify opportunities for optimized pricing strategies that align with Medtronic's overall business goals. Manage customer quotation and bid requests, ensuring adherence to Medtronic's pricing objectives and contracting standards while maintaining a competitive edge.
• Contract Lifecycle Oversight: Oversee the entire lifecycle of negotiated contracts from strategy to implementation to expiration. Ensure accurate application of pricing and product strategies, proactively target renewals, price increases, and track performance to commitment to maximize financial outcomes.
• Business Acumen: Leverage deep understanding of business strategies and market dynamics to enhance operational effectiveness. Ensure compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and company policies. Maintain a broad organizational perspective, considering the impact of decisions on the entire enterprise and engaging in special projects that contribute to overarching business goals.

This position is a hybrid-role based in our Fridley campus in Minneapolis, MN. All candidates must be able to accommodate an on-site, and off-site work environment to be considered.

SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects - from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes.

Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager.

Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level specialists.

Organizational Impact: Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results.

May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, moderately complex and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation.

Develops solutions to moderately complex problems, and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area.

Implements solutions to problems.

Communication and Influence: Represents organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels.

May negotiate with others to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management: Typically provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.

Typically manages major / moderately complex projects, involving delegation of work and review of work products, at times acting as a team leader.

Required Knowledge and Experience: High School Diploma or equivalent with 8+ years of relevant experience in Contracts or Pricing or equivalent experience (OR Associate's Degree with 6+ years experience OR Baccalaureate Degree with 4+ years experience).

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A). .

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):$105,600.00 - $158,400.00

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.

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