Marketing Director - Diabetes Latin America

Careers that change lives start here. 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** This position is an exciting opportunity to work with the Diabetes business. Medtronic announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and to reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic. The Diabetes division, now known as MiniMed, completed its IPO in March 2026. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investment to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care. While you will start your employment with Medtronic, upon completion of required local legal and employment processes, we expect your employment to transfer to MiniMed, subject to business needs an any applicable information and consultation requirements in your jurisdiction. This role supports Regional Diabetes team in Latin America to establish and execute marketing strategies and tactical plans that build profitability and achieve Medtronic growth targets for diabetes business, leading and developing the marketing team for LatAm region, including two product portfolio leaders, customer programs leader and marketing leaders in our Top Countries. This role will coordinate strategies with global OU marketing leadership to ensure consistent brand execution, leveraging synergies between Medtronic’s leading portfolio of diabetes, driving superior market share and customer brand equity, and creating an inspiring, innovative workplace that attracts, develops, and retains talent within team and entire marketing function in Diabetes LatAm region. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result — and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive. Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned. - Directs the development of company market requirements for specific product(s) or product line(s) in Diabetes business. - Leads and coordinates product planning, product launches, product management, market development and market research activities for diabetes portfolio. - Interacts directly with product managers to identify new marketing opportunities. - Works individually or with a team in recommending action, scheduling and planning projects, estimating cost and managing projects to completion. - Identifies unmet customer requirements and new business opportunities and provides vision and focus to move products from idea to marketplace. - Facilitates and coordinates marketing activities with geographic areas to increase teamwork and build partnerships. - Responsibilities may also include: coordinating trade show activities, website development, developing future e-commerce strategies, and tracking of marketing campaigns to evaluate results and provide recommendations for future marketing promotions for Diabetes business. **Required Knowledge and Experience:** - Requires a Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience (people or program), or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience (people or program). **Preferred:** - Bachelor's degree in Business or Marketing - Experience leading regional marketing strategy and execution across Latin America - Experience in diabetes, medical dev…