Marketing Communication 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.

**A Day in the Life**:An exciting opportunity as a Marketing Communications Specialist based in Macquarie Park, Sydney awaits you to join Medtronic, recognized as a Great Place to Work in Australia. We are offering a 12 months full-time contract, with hybrid working arrangement.

In this position, you will help define and direct how multichannel marketing campaigns are delivered in Medtronic to positively impact our patient and healthcare professionals (HCP) reach, furthering access to our life changing technologies. This dynamic role will see you liaising with Commercial Operating Unit (OU) Leaders, Functional Leaders and Marketing Partners to design, plan, and lead execution of commercial multichannel marketing communications campaigns and programs in line with business strategies.

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

- Plans, creates, and produces multichannel campaigns including marketing communications consultation, strategy development, tactics generation, advertising, and sales promotion materials to implement marketing strategies and sales objectives
- Liaises with Operating Units on priorities, work volume & timelines
- Triages marketing communications requests and briefs through to the creative and digital execution team
- Prepares and manages budgets and associated metrics for multichannel campaigns and programs
- Scales commercial multichannel marketing communications programs enterprise wide as appropriate
- Evaluates and modifies promotion or advertising programs.
- May prepares and/or approves all technical and artistic phases of the finished promotional material.
- Consults with company management, product managers, sales department, and advertising agencies to develop and implement promotional plans and recommend sales philosophy, approach, and media.
- Supports the implementation and execution of communication strategies through project management, design and digital expertise
- Manages vendors associated with campaign deliverables including external media or external creative agency
- May perform, coordinate, or oversee activities such as layout and creative of campaign material
- Works cross-functionally with Events, Digital and Communications teams
- Ensures compliance with TGA advertising code and relevant governing bodies and works closely with Legal to ensure local and global compliance
- Travel requirement: Less than 10%

**Required Knowledge and Experience**:

- Minimum Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in marketing, communications or business administration
- Minimum 2-3 years’ experience of relevant experience in experience in a marketing or marketing communications role, preferably within regulated sectors such as in medical device, pharmaceutical, consumer health or tech industry
- Advanced knowledge and experience with traditional and digital communications channels
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office suite of software
- Results-oriented with good strategic planning, organisation and time-management skills
- Strong project management & budgeting skills
- Understanding of TGA Advertising code, MTAA, AMA or Regulatory Body equivalent for healthcare is highly desirable
- Knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat and Adobe Creative Suite is preferred
- Knowledge of Workfront is preferred
- Excellent presentation, communication and interpersonal skills
- Outstanding attention to detail
- Proactive can-do attitude, display initiative and growth mindset

**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.