Principal Communications Specialist (Contract)
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Job Summary
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
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 organizations 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 employeeengagement 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)
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 95000 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
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Business Development
- Classroom Experience
- Dayforce
- Go
- Cloud Computing
- AWS
- Teaching
- Administrative Experience
- Leadership Experience
- negotiation
- SAS
- Data Analysis Skills
About Company
About Medtronic Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an excit ... View more
