Key skills
AI
About this role
Role Overview
- Oversee integrated internal and external communications planning and execution across priority initiatives
- Manage communications activities that promote, enhance, and protect the organization’s reputation with internal and external audiences
- Advance the company narrative through coordinated campaigns, media engagement, and strategic storytelling aligned to business strategy and the Medtronic Mission
- Establish and maintain governance frameworks, operating rhythms, and standardized processes aligned to enterprise communications practices
- Translate business priorities into integrated communications plans with clear sequencing, milestones, and accountability
- Own and maintain the CST editorial calendar across reputation, integrated marketing, and digital channels
- Orchestrate campaign flighting and channel sequencing to optimize reach, engagement, and impact
- Align timing and activation of campaigns to avoid overlap, dilution, or message fatigue
- Optimize channel mix and cadence to maximize reach, engagement, and impact
- Ensure integration across campaigns, launches, and always-on programs for consistent narrative pull-through
- Continuously refine plans based on performance insights, audience behavior, and business priorities
- Drive prioritization and trade-off decisions to focus teams on highest-impact work
- Develop dashboards and reporting to provide visibility into priorities, progress, risks, and outcomes
- Lead communications measurement and impact reporting, synthesizing performance across campaigns and channels to demonstrate business and reputational value
- Serve as a strategic partner to business leaders, integrated marketing, digital, creative, and enterprise communications teams
- Influence across functions while balancing divergent objectives to align on priorities and execution
- Equip teams with tools, templates, and standardized processes to drive consistency and scale
- Champion adoption of digital automation, AI-enabled workflows, and data-driven decision-making to improve speed, precision, and impact
Requirements
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience with 5 years of people or program managerial experience
- Bachelor's Degree
- Degree in Communications, Public Relations, Marketing, or related field
- Mastery-level expertise in a communications discipline
- Demonstrated experience leading integrated communications programs across internal and external audiences
- Strong business acumen with ability to translate strategy into executable communications plans
- Experience translating complex business strategies into integrated, sequenced communications plans across internal, external, digital, and marketing channels
- Proven ability to manage editorial calendars, campaign timing, and channel cadence to reduce overlap, message fatigue, and reactive execution
- Track record of building or scaling communications operating models, including intake, prioritization, workflow management, and governance
- Ability to bring operational discipline to creative or matrixed teams while maintaining speed, quality, and strategic impact
- Experience developing dashboards, scorecards, or visibility tools that connect communications work to business priorities and outcomes
- Strong cross-functional influence skills
- Comfort operating in complex, fast-changing enterprise environments with multiple senior stakeholders
- Experience leading teams through changes in ways of working, structure, or operating expectations
Benefits
- Health, Dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement
- Simple Steps (global well-being program)
- Incentive plans
- 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
- Short-term disability
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
- Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)