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.

Day in the Life

Under the leadership of the Program Marketing Manager, the Principal Communications and Change Specialist creates and implements the communications strategy and management of transformational initiatives for Global Pricing & Contracting in close cooperation with business partners. The Principal Communications and Change Specialist helps the entire organization, leaders, and employees navigate through critical change and transformation without disrupting business continuity by creating and implementing comprehensible communication plans.

Responsibilities

- Plans, creates, and produces communications and materials that support key transformation initiatives, policy changes and other company information to Pricing & Contracting (P&C;) teams along with OU leadership teams and commercial employees
- Develops change communication toolkits, training playbooks, templates, and processes that can be leveraged by multiple stakeholders
- Works across multiple programs (defined as per P&C; priorities), with varying demands and objectives by acting as an integral member of that transformation initiative
- Communicates upcoming changes proactively in a simple and easy-to-understand manner
- Thoughtfully crafts messaging to bring transformation to life,



creatively leveraging different communication mediums to engage stakeholders
- Maintains key internal relationships with SMEs, Product Owners/Project Managers, and Global P&C; leadership to inform, gain input, and support decision-making
- Consults with SMEs, Product Owners and leaders to ensure that specialized topics are appropriately represented in messaging and communication plans.
- Helps foster the adoption of a self-service model for low impact changes
- Acquires and maintains a detailed knowledge of the company’s policies, principles, and strategies, and keeps up to date with relevant developments

Required Knowledge and Experience

- Requires mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
- Knowledge of project management and Agile Methodology.
- Minimum of 7 years relevant experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience
- Internal communications expert with core business acumen and a general understanding of healthcare marketplace
- Knowledge and understanding of both traditional and emerging communications channels, including social media and digital platforms
- Very proficient with various communication channels and tools (i.e., Viva Engage, Microsoft programs and tools)
- Experience directing, developing, executing,



and measuring communications initiatives and campaigns

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 general team of 95,000+ 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 sci

📌 Principal Comms and Change Specialist (Bogotá)
🏢 Medtronic
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