Senior Marketing Specialist, Neurosurgery & ENT
Johannesburg - South Africa
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
Join Medtronic as a Senior Marketing Specialist to help drive the adoption of ENT Cranial & Spinal enabling technologies across Central and South Africa. This role offers flexible working and requires up to 50% travel to support marketing initiatives customer events and market development. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate technical innovations into impactful messaging while ensuring quality and compliance. At Medtronic youll contribute to meaningful projects develop your career and help advance healthcare with a global leader in medical technology.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Develop and execute integrated marketing plans tailored for Central and South Africa to support product launches market development and portfolio growth
- Collaborate with global regional and local marketing sales and clinical teams to ensure messaging alignment across the region
- Identify regional market trends customer insights and competitive dynamics to inform strategy and tactical plans
- Create and manage marketing collateral sales tools digital content and educational materials highlighting the value of capital equipment such as StealthStation(Medtronics advanced surgical navigation system that enhances precision in ENT cranial and spinal procedures) O-arm NIM Vital Visualase Midas Rex etc.
- Support the development of customer-facing presentations case studies and testimonials
- Participate in cross-functional launch teams to ensure successful commercialization of new products and features
- Gather and analyze regional market intelligence providing regular reports and insights to leadership and stakeholders
- Ensure all marketing materials and activities comply with regulatory requirements and Medtronics quality standards
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Masters degree in Marketing Business Engineering or a related field
- Minimum of seven (7) years experience working with capital equiment preferably in medical devices healthcare or life sciences
- Strong communication organizational and project management skills
- Ability to thrive in a matrixed cross-functional and multicultural environment
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and digital marketing tools
Experience with surgical or enabling technologies in neurosurgery ENT or orthopedic surgery an advanced degree in business engineering or healthcare-related discipline familiarity with industry regulations and compliance messaging and experience in a regional marketing role are desirable and will be considered an advantage.
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:
Senior IC
About Company
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