Strategic Meeting Planning Specialist (Onsite)
MedtronicAbout the role
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, 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.U.S. Candidates: This role offers a flexible work style that may include a combination of onsite and remote work. Please note that flexible arrangements are not guaranteed for all positions and may change over time based on business needs and facility space. Future adjustments could include transitioning to full-time onsite.
Careers that Change Lives
Across our global Neuroscience organization, we advance care for some of medicine’s most complex neurological and spinal conditions. By combining innovative technology, data-driven insights, and deep clinical expertise, we partner with physicians and health systems to improve how patients are treated and supported throughout their care journey.
Our Cranial & Spinal Technologies (CST) operating unit advances surgical care for spine and cranial conditions through an integrated ecosystem of implants, navigation, robotics, imaging, and planning tools. Platforms like AiBLE enhance precision, efficiency, and outcomes for complex procedures worldwide. Check us out on LinkedIn: Medtronic CST
We are seeking a Strategic Meeting Planning Specialist to join our team at Medtronic. In this role, you will be an individual contributor and a key player in executing meetings and events that contribute to our organization's success. We are looking for candidates who possess strategic thinking, confidence, a global perspective, and a determination to go above and beyond. Your primary responsibilities will involve working closely with various teams, including Marketing, Medical Education, and Corporate, to execute strategies that support and drive business results. You will thrive in our fast-paced and highly visible organization, where your ability to formulate and communicate a strategy, gain alignment from senior leaders, and lead its execution will be critical.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
In compliance with Medtronic policies and relevant regulations, plan and organize internal and external business-related meetings, symposiums, conferences, and program events by working with meeting stakeholders to align and execute against strategic direction (e.g., meeting objectives, desired outcomes, intended audience, content coordination, creative and innovative engagement techniques).
Address all aspects of budget and billing, including development of and tracking against budgets, identification and capture of cost savings/cost avoidance efforts, reconciling master bill, coordinating payments to vendors, and managing meeting expenses.
Investigate, source, negotiate, and coordinate hotel and ancillary meeting services (includes contractors, vendors, onsite staff) while managing all logistics of program functions, including but not limited to meeting space set-up, catering, arrangement of air and ground transportation.
Select, book, and coordinate AV/Production and Auxiliary Technical Services (e.g., mobile applications, audience response systems, polling/surveys) to ensure successful execution and evaluation of meetings.
Facilitate attendee experience through website & registration site design, event promotion and communication, and attendee management to support needs related to meeting attendance (e.g., accommodation requests, RSVPs for sessions, travel manifests).
Generate, analyze, and communicate event-level and cross-event reporting against identified key meeting metrics and value-proposition indicators, as needed.
Provide on-site host & support to all guests, ensuring concierge-level hospitality and service during all events, which can include internal and external business-related meetings. Host responsibilities include receiving guests upon arrival, facilitation of executive host interactions, meeting transitions, and oversight of all logistics.
Travel up to 50%
Ability to work before and after traditional working hours (e.g., 8-5:00 PM) as
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