Job Description

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

The Africa and Central & Eastern Europe (ACEE) region is on an exciting growth journey, with a clear ambition to grow by 9% through FY30. This growth is fuelled by commercial transformation, digital innovation, and the smart application of AI and technology at scale. As IT Digital Lead ACEE, you will sit at the heart of this journey. Part of the IT EurAsia organization, this role offers a unique opportunity to partner closely with regional commercial leaders and turn strategy into impact. You will help shape and deliver digital and AI‑enabled solutions that directly support market growth, improve customer engagement, and accelerate value creation across 76 countries.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working across cultures and functions, is curious about innovation, and wants to grow their leadership impact in a fast‑moving, strategically important region. If you are motivated by collaboration, learning, and making a tangible difference at scale, this is a powerful next step in your career.

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

• Partners closely with Africa and Central & Eastern Europe Region Led Markets (N3) to ensure deep understanding of business needs and objectives across new and existing transformation initiatives.
• Collaborates with the Regional Digital & AI Commercial Transformation Leader to accelerate value delivery through technology.
• Drives digital product innovation, including the ideation, creation, and lifecycle management of new digital products and solutions.
• Owns and governs the IT portfolio, serving as IT liaison for prioritization, investment decisions, and return on investment management.
• Ensures alignment between IT strategy and business decision makers across Regions, Functions, and Enablers.
• Orchestrates IT products and services end to end to effectively support and enable business objectives, acts as a catalyst for business–IT convergence, maximizing enterprise value and outcomes.
• Shares joint accountability for Region, Function, and Enabler goals, driving collective success.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Requires a Baccalaureate degree and a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
• Ability to build trusted partnerships with commercial leaders in complex, multi‑country environments
• Clear and confident communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage and connect with diverse stakeholders.
• Curiosity and hands‑on interest in using AI tools to improve ways of working and create meaningful business impact.
• Experience in IT portfolio management, including prioritization, investment discussions, and value realization.
• Ability to work across regions and functions, valuing collaboration, inclusion, and different perspectives.
• Fluency in English, written and spoken, fluent Polish language would be an advantage.

Experience contributing to or leading IT strategy execution aligned with business priorities and transformation goals. Experience driving Digital and AI initiatives and digital product innovation from idea to delivery, with support from cross‑functional teams. Brings fresh, out of the box thinking combined with a pragmatic, results driven approach. Demonstrated leadership and influencing skills, with a collaborative approach and shared accountability for outcomes.

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.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Poland: 208,480.00 PLN - 312,720.00 PLN | 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