Senior Events Communication Specialist

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. A Day in the Life 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 teams to operate in a best-in-class R&D environment, with a network of bespoke R&D laboratories and our dedicated Customer Innovation Centre (CIC). We partner with internal and external customers and stakeholders to meet development goals as we strive to Alleviate pain, Restore Health and Extend Life At our state-of-the-art Customer Innovation Centre, our Senior Events Specialist will serve as a key facilitator, bringing together healthcare professionals and R&D engineers to collaborate on expanding opportunities across new and exciting therapy areas. 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 teams to operate in a best-in-class R&D environment, with a network of bespoke R&D laboratories and our dedicated Customer Innovation Centre (CIC). We partner with internal and external customers and stakeholders to meet development goals as we strive to Alleviate pain, Restore Health and Extend Life   At our state-of-the-art Customer Innovation Centre, our Senior Events Specialist will serve as a key facilitator, 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 a Senior 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, early reservations/registration, agency fees, no show/cancellation policies, budgets, payments and expenses per regulated financial guidelines. • Be a link between the R&D teams and our Compliance Partners for the monitoring of compliance applications and processing of Health Care Professionals Contracts with local Finance. • 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 Meeti