Communications and Change Specialist

at  Medtronic

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
We’re a mission-driven leader in medical technology and solutions with a legacy of integrity and innovation. Work with us to incentivize better patient care, and partner across the industry to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. Be a part of a community of experts committed to ensuring quality, affordable healthcare worldwide.
Come strengthen your specialized skills and enhance your expertise. We’ll support you with the training, mentorship, guidance, and networks you need to advance, and empower you to work in the way that’s best for you. Together, we can confront the challenges that will change the face of healthcare. Join us for a career that changes lives.

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

• Plan, create, and produce communications and materials that support key transformation initiatives, business line communications, and programs to Pricing & Contracting (P&C) teams along with OU leadership teams and commercial employees.
• Support development of communication toolkits and training playbooks plus creates communication templates and processes that can be leveraged by multiple stakeholders.
• Work across multiple programs (defined as per P&C priorities), with varying demands and objectives by acting as an integral member of that initiative.
• Communicate upcoming changes proactively in a simple and easy-to-understand manner.
• Partner with SMEs, Product Owners and leaders to ensure that specialized topics are appropriately represented in messaging and communication plans. Helps foster the adoption of a self-service model for low impact changes.
• Coordinate with leadership and teams across the program to align on plans and ensure critical messaging is captured in communications.
• 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:

• Bachelor’s degree administrative areas
• 3 or more years of experience creating, supporting and implementing communication plans for transformational initiatives and internal communications
• Knowledge and understanding of both traditional and emerging communications channels, including social media and digital platforms
• Fluent in English level
• Knowledge with various communication channels and tools (i.e., Viva Engage, Microsoft programs and tools
• Knowledge and understanding of both traditional and emerging communications channels, including social media and digital platforms
• Experience developing, executing, and measuring communications initiatives and campaigns
• MS Office knowledge

Internal communications expert with core business acumen and a general understanding of healthcare marketplace, experience with Viva Engage is a plus.
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.
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• Plan, create, and produce communications and materials that support key transformation initiatives, business line communications, and programs to Pricing & Contracting (P&C) teams along with OU leadership teams and commercial employees.
• Support development of communication toolkits and training playbooks plus creates communication templates and processes that can be leveraged by multiple stakeholders.
• Work across multiple programs (defined as per P&C priorities), with varying demands and objectives by acting as an integral member of that initiative.
• Communicate upcoming changes proactively in a simple and easy-to-understand manner.
• Partner with SMEs, Product Owners and leaders to ensure that specialized topics are appropriately represented in messaging and communication plans. Helps foster the adoption of a self-service model for low impact changes.
• Coordinate with leadership and teams across the program to align on plans and ensure critical messaging is captured in communications.
• Acquire and maintain a detailed knowledge of the company’s policies, principles, and strategies, and keep up to date with relevant developments