Events Communication Specialist (R&D Customer Innovation Centre) in Galway, Ireland

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

Medtronic

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose

At our R&D Shared Engineering Services team in Medtronic we support our R&D partners across multiple Operating Units (OUs) to innovate and design the next generation of medical therapies and devices. Our focus is to enable our R&D teams to operate in a best-in-class R&D environment with a network of R&D laboratories and Customer Innovation Centre (CIC) and to partner with internal and external customers and stakeholders to meet business goals and objectives.

At our state-of-the-art Customer Innovation Centre, our Events Specialists serve as key facilitators, bringing together healthcare professionals and R&D engineers to collaborate on expanding opportunities across new and exciting therapy areas.

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of:

As an Events Communication Specialist within the R&D Shared Engineering Services team, the successful candidate will support R&D across multiple Operating Units within Medtronic that treat a wide range of disease states, supporting activities such as:

• Your role will play a pivotal part at the point where Healthcare Professionals meet New Product Development Teams to advance our healthcare solutions.

• Key liaison between event stakeholders – Offsite stakeholders such as the Operating Unit planning team, Marketing, local cross functional R&D teams, Operations, Facilities, Training & Education (T&E), Finance, Legal & Compliance, etc.

• Manage the entire life cycle of an event, compliance planning, early reservations/registration, agency fees, no show/cancellation policies, budgets, payments and expenses per regulated financial guidelines.

• Compile and monitor information and metrics for R&D leadership dashboards/ reports/budgets schedules as necessary.

• Providing feedback on event performance to Management and play a key role in defining improvements to enhance the customer experience.

• Ability to multitask and be flexible in a dynamic environment to support wider team needs during peak times.

• Manage event logistics, such as ground transportation when required.

• Problem solving and real-time assessment of potential unforeseen events, containment of these events and execution of appropriate countermeasures.

• Active participation in Functional and Business Meetings.

• Lead special projects and ad hoc initiatives as assigned with relevant stakeholders.

• Take an active role in event calendar management and communicate planned visitors to key local stakeholders.

• Prepares and/or approves all technical and artistic phases of finished promotional material as required.

• May purchase promotional materials including, but not limited to, displays/signage/pre-packs, promotional printing, coupons, premiums, art, and photography.

Key Skills & Experience

• Level 8 Degree, with 2-3 years of event planning/management or other relevant experience.

• Demonstrated expert written and verbal communication skills and ability to network with senior stakeholders both internally and externally.

• Strong interpersonal skills.

• Excellent verbal, written and presentations skills in English.

• Demonstrated ability to work independently with a high degree of initiative and within a team-based environment.

• Experience on executing on key projects/events within high performing teams.

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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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.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here (http://www.medtronic.com)

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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.

We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You’re shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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