Senior Government Affairs Specialist

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
This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. 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 investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.

We are seeking a Senior Government Affairs Specialist to support the development and execution of MiniMed's policy and advocacy agenda in the UK and Ireland. In this role, you will work closely with internal business leaders, policymakers, and healthcare stakeholders to help shape a favourable environment for patient access to diabetes technologies — including automated insulin delivery (AID) systems, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), and connected digital health solutions. This is a highly visible role that blends policy expertise, stakeholder engagement, and strategic execution to advance MiniMed's mission of empowering people with diabetes to live life on their terms.

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

• Contribute to the design and implementation of the local government affairs strategy, aligned with regional and corporate objectives
• Identify and help address policy barriers related to innovation adoption, digital health integration, and reimbursement
• Build and maintain collaborative relationships with ministries of health, reimbursement authorities, regulatory bodies, and health committees
• Engage with patient organisations, professional associations, and industry groups to align on shared advocacy goals
• Track emerging legislative, regulatory, and policy trends affecting diabetes and the MedTech sector
• Support issue management and help coordinate internal alignment across functions (Market Access, Clinical, Regulatory, and Communications)
• Support the preparation of executive-level briefings and materials for government engagement

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Public Policy, Political Science, Law, Health Economics, Public Health, or another related field
• Extensive experience in government affairs, public policy, or healthcare advocacy
• Strong understanding of national health policy, reimbursement systems, and political decision-making processes in the UK and Ireland
• Proven experience engaging with government agencies, policymakers, or health authorities
• Strong influencing, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills within matrixed environments

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.

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

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