Principal Communications Specialist (Contract)

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.

An exciting new opportunity has opened for a Principal Communications Specialist based in our Head Office in Macquarie Park, Sydney on a 13-month fixed-term contract (Maternity Leave Cover).  Joining our EurAsia Communications team and spearheading ANZ corporate communications initiatives, you will work with talented, friendly and highly professional team members in delivering corporate communications strategies to elevate our brand, engage our employees and reach audiences with our life changing therapies. 

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

Under the leadership of the Snr Director Communications APAC, you will directly manage internal and external communications strategies to promote, enhance and protect the organization’s reputation with relevant ANZ audiences. 

• Drive comprehensive 360 communications strategies, activations and projects that position Medtronic as the leader in Healthcare Technology, a trusted local partner and employer of choice to external audiences. 

• Manage ANZ public relations efforts and maintain local media / association relationships and support dissemination of information and releases.

• Together with Operating Unit and Marketing Leaders, prioritize and execute on therapy-specific awareness and product launch initiatives, and create communications campaigns that meet business objectives.

• Develop internal communication strategies to enhance employee engagement and brand ambassadorship amongst employees.

• Lead major internal employee events such as kick off meetings, holiday programs and patient story sessions.

• Advise and support senior leadership in communicating to external and internal audiences.

• Work with ANZ leadership and Global Communications teams to manage local issues and crises, media relations, and patient advocacy.

• Share, and scale best practices across EurAsia teams, with occasional global project work designed to streamline communications efforts and practices.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Degree is essential with 8 years relevant experience

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

• Public relations and media management experience

• Core business acumen and general understanding of healthcare marketplace

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

• Experience developing, executing, and measuring strategic communications initiatives and campaigns that deliver results; expertise managing project timelines and budgets

• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategic relationships and communicate complex concepts with key influencers

• Demonstrated ability to influence organizational decision makers (internal/external)

Note: contract roles are not eligible to be included in the incentive plan.

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.

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