Principal Communications Specialist, Surgical page is loaded
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.
As a Principal Communications Specialist, you will play a key role in shaping strategic communications that align with Medtronic’s mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. In this role, you will be an expert in channel strategy, management, and deployment. You will serve as a talented collaborator who thrives on creating efficiencies to effectively develop, manage, and execute strategies for our internal and external communications channels .
You must be passionate about utilizing new technologies to enhance how we operationalize communications strategies to reach audiences in new, interesting, and different ways ! Your work will help amplify the voices of employees, drive business goals, and reinforce a sense of belonging to all. This role is also responsible for enabling measurable and data-driven strategies to advance our approach and functional expertise .
In this highly visible and influential role, you will:
Support the Surgical Communications team and collaborate with multiple cross functional groups across a variety of global geographies and functions.
Oversee responsibility for both internal and external communications channel management, planning, and execution.
Support the team’s execution of communications strategies.
Proactively seek out new, different, and enhanced technical capabilities to enhance how we deploy our communication approach.
Cont ribute towards design and content creation across multiple media formats.
Bring a measurement and data-led approach to deliver insights into actions to help advance Communications programs.
Communicate clearly through written and verbal communication .
Manage an editorial calendar to inform communications deployment across channels and audiences in thoughtful ways.
Advance the company narrative to media and other external audiences as defined, which may involve the strategic conceptualization and execution of creative (PR) campaigns.
Manage projects/ programs and applicable content deployment, guided by the Medtronic Mission and overall business strategy.
This role supports U.S. time zones and is intended to be an in-person position with key stakeholders and partners in Lafayette, CO, Boston, MA, Minneapolis, MN, or North Haven, CT. Travel required is expected to be less than 10 percent.
Must Haves:
Bachelor’s degree AND m inimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR
Advanced degree with 5 years relevant experience
Nice to Have:
Experience working in healthcare, medical technology, or regulated industries
Demonstrated ability to advise and influence senior leadership
Track record of leading communications during change or transformation
Proficiency in digital communications tools (e.g., SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, intranet platforms)
Commitment to inclusive communication practices and DEI principles
Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills
Experience working in a global and/or matrixed environment
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.
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.
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
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 .
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
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