Principal Communications 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.

We are seeking a Principal Communications Specialist for the $1.2B global Neurovascular business, reporting to the Head of Global Communications for Neurovascular. You will play a critical role in connecting, engaging, and inspiring our global workforce, as well as key external stakeholders. Your work will help drive understanding, alignment, and action around business priorities, company culture, and strategic initiatives.

This role is ideal for a strategic communicator who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and is passionate about the power of communications.

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

• Create and implement internal and external communications programs and content guided by the business strategy for the region and aligned with organizational goals, supporting business transformation and fostering employee engagement
• Collaborate with communications colleagues across the OU, regional, and corporate communications teams, as needed, to support priority initiatives and special projects
• Understand broader media trends and adapt Medtronic stories as needed to help strengthen Medtronic’s reputation in the marketplace
• Engage with external stakeholders to manage communications and participate in media activities, conferences, congresses, award submissions, and similar events
• Support key initiatives that reinforce company values, celebrate employee contributions, and enhance transparency and trust across the organization
• Measure the impact of communication efforts through feedback, analytics, and engagement metrics, using data to inform strategy and continuous improvement
• Serve as a trusted communications advisor to senior leadership, providing strategic guidance on messaging, organizational communications, and change management initiatives

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Extensive experience in external or corporate communications, including experience advising senior leaders
• Proven ability to lead strategic communication programs with measurable impact
• Strong English writing, editing, and storytelling skills tailored to a variety of internal audiences
• Expertise in change communication and organizational transformation
• Experience working within a highly matrixed, global organization preferred

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. 

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.
 

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