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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

Under the leadership of DACH leaders, support in-country to promote, enhance and protect the organization’s reputation with relevant audiences. Understand local market and business goals and frameworks and consider scenarios and projects that complement the communication perspective of each opportunity. Translates business goals and objectives into impactful and measurable communications strategies and executes end to end plans. Supports local deployment of Western European communications strategies.

The International Communications Team partners with business and regional Leadership to support business imperatives through creation of impactful and measurable communications strategies; to build trusted partnerships and contribute to initiatives that elevate our brand, secure market leadership and deliver superior revenue growth.

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

• Support comprehensive 360 communications strategies initiatives that promote, enhance and protect the organization’s reputation to both internal and external audiences, which may include media, top customers, industry stakeholders as defined, as well as localization of Corporate campaigns and communications projects with relevant stakeholders.

• Develop internal communication strategies to create business literacy, employee engagement, and brand ambassadorship among employees, deploy and localize key documents and reports, press releases, interviews and other external and internal communications vehicles as defined, support senior leadership in communicating to external and internal audiences.

• Support response to local issues and potential threats in business continuity and reputation, in close collaboration with Legal, Regulatory, HR and International Communications colleagues when needed, as well as execution of therapy-specific value proposition initiatives.

• Work with managers to determine communications budget and timeline, coordinate communications outputs and deliverables on time and within budget, maintain local media relationships and support dissemination of information and releases.

• Demonstrate strong understanding of the region's unique communication and promotional policies in Medtronic strategy to create a public relations strategy that influences public opinion and promotes products, ideas, and services.

• Maintain key internal relationships with Global Regions partners to inform, gain input, and support decision-making.

• Acquire and maintain a detailed knowledge of the company’s policies, principles, and strategies, and keep up to date with relevant developments.

Required knowledge and experience:

• Excellent written, verbal, copy editing, and presentation skills in local language and English.

• Core business acumen and general understanding of healthcare market place, with a demonstrated ability to work with organizational decision makers, both internally and externally.

• Experience implementing strategic communications initiatives and campaigns to deliver measurable results, as well as expertise in managing project timelines and budgets.

• Ability to use tact and professionalism including in times of heightened stress, along with a demonstrated ability to work independently with limited oversight, a deadline-oriented, inquisitive personality with great follow-up and reporting skills, as well as a strong attention to detail and problem-solving approach.

• Knowledge and understanding of both traditional and emerging communications channels, including social media and digital platforms.

• Deep understanding of Medtronic branding, style, policies, and processes

• Successful both as a team player and as an individual

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.

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 90,000+ 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 (http://www.medtronic.com)

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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 90,000+ 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.

We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

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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