About this role
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
Join Medtronic as the Sales Manager for Surgical Innovations (SI), Acute Care & Monitoring (ACM) and Endoscopy across Indirect Africa. This is a high-impact commercial leadership opportunity to shape portfolio strategy, strengthen distributor performance and lead execution across a broad, diverse group of African markets. The role offers the chance to create clear priorities, build team capability and expand patient access to technologies that support surgical care, critical care, patient monitoring and minimally invasive endoscopic procedures.
The role will operate within a distributor-led business model across Central Africa, Maghreb, Libya and Other French Africa. The successful candidate will lead and coach a geographically dispersed team, partner closely with distributors and cross-functional stakeholders, and maintain disciplined delivery against the Annual Operating Plan (AOP). Frequent travel across the region will be required, subject to business needs and company travel policies. Arabic and/or French language capability is a mandatory requirement alongside strong business English.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Own the regional commercial strategy and AOP delivery for SI, ACM and Endoscopy, translating business priorities into clear country, portfolio and distributor action plans
- Lead, coach and develop the field team across Indirect Africa, setting performance expectations, strengthening commercial capability and ensuring consistent execution across markets
- Govern distributor performance through structured business reviews, forecasting, pipeline management, inventory planning, pricing discipline and agreed corrective actions
- Prioritise growth opportunities across Core Surgical, Endoscopy, Patient Monitoring and Respiratory Interventions, ensuring resources are focused on the markets, customers and therapies with the highest potential
- Build strong relationships with key customers, clinical leaders, distributors and internal stakeholders to support therapy adoption, education plans, tenders and strategic partnerships
- Partner with marketing, market development, finance, supply chain, regulatory, clinical, legal and compliance teams to support new product introductions and reliable market execution
- Maintain high standards of ethics, compliance, data quality and operating discipline while providing accurate forecasts, business insights and updates to leadership
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in business, life sciences, engineering, healthcare or a related discipline
- Meaningful commercial experience in medical devices, healthcare or a comparable regulated industry, including responsibility for sales delivery across multiple markets
- Proven experience leading people and/or complex distributor networks, with the ability to coach teams and influence partners across different cultures and geographies
- Strong capability in business planning, forecasting, pipeline management, tender execution, pricing and financial performance management
- Fluent business English plus Arabic and/or French as a mandatory language requirement
- Ability and willingness to travel frequently across Indirect Africa, with a strong commitment to ethical conduct, compliance and inclusive leadership
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience across Surgical Innovations, Acute Care & Monitoring, Endoscopy or related portfolios, together with knowledge of distributor-led African markets, would be an advantage. An MBA or relevant postgraduate qualification is also desirable but not essential.
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.
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Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
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This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.