We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 30 Aug 2025

 

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

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 career at Medtronic is like no other. We're purposeful, committed, and driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of people worldwide. We believe career growth and development is about learning and stretching yourself to grow your expertise and navigate your career. We offer award-winning programs to accelerate your development and growth, and our size, scope, and market leadership give you a chance to explore career opportunities and grow as we grow.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary

We are seeking a Principal Communications Generalist who is a fast-moving dot connector that thrives on change and executes with an unrelenting focus on quality. Supporting communications for an Executive Vice President, you will be responsible for managing the creation, development, and execution of effective internal and external communication strategies. In this dynamic role, your communications work will include executive thought leadership, employee and leader engagement, organizational change, culture and more. This role is also responsible for ensuring consistency of messaging across activations, as well as enabling a measurable and data-driven strategy that drives our approach. This role will collaborate with multiple teams in global geographies and functions.

If this sounds like you, we invite you to join a company that thinks differently, and a communications team looking for new ways to create connections with employees and external stakeholders. We need you to bring your passion, unique perspective, and skills to help promote Medtronic therapies, our leaders, and the work we are doing to help people live better, fuller lives. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

This role supports U.S. time zones and is intended to be an in-person position with key stakeholders and partners in Lafayette, CO, with the option to also be based in Minneapolis, MN or Boston, MA. Travel required for this role is expected to be less than 10 percent.

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

• Handle creating and implementing multiple forms of internal strategic communication activities, programs, and content guided by the Medtronic Mission and aligned to business objectives.
• Lead strategies and produce content to help align the organization's goals in support of greater employee engagement and business impact.
• Generate comprehensive communications plans that engage employees with the objectives, policies, Mission, and growth strategies of the company.
• Responsible for planning, storytelling, writing, and editing to persuade, educate, and inspire internal audiences to change behavior or understand the work environment.
• Support senior leadership in communicating key business updates, change initiatives, policy changes, and other company information to employees and leaders.
• Develop and execute communication programs in collaboration with /Social Media, Corporate Communications, Global Marketing, and Human Resources functions, as appropriate. Liaise with the global business units, U.S. commercial team and global regions on communications efforts, including internal and external announcements.
• Identify and develop a steady cadence of content to engage external stakeholders with the latest news, including clinical data, product milestones, and events.
• Develop and execute integrated plans in partnership with communications colleagues across Medtronic and global regions to support programs, including select product launches, healthcare congresses, and other critical events and special projects.
• Execute the writing, editing, and approval of event scripts, video messages, press releases, interviews, FAQs, and other external and internal c