Job Description

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

For our Global Communications team, we are seeking a Principal Communications Specialist to serve as a strategic communications leader for Medtronic’s Cranial & Spinal Technologies (CST) international business. This role supports Western Europe, Japan, and Australia–New Zealand, while coordinating closely with Region-Led Markets (RLM). This is a remote position based in Spain, Italy, or the UK, with expected international travel.

In this exciting role, you will lead the development and integration of internal and external communications strategies across the region, ensuring alignment with business priorities while strengthening and protecting the CST brand and reputation globally. You will serve as a trusted advisor to regional leadership and act as a key link between global communications strategy and local market execution, translating complex business and clinical topics into clear, compelling communications that engage employees and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Serve as the primary communications partner to international leadership across Western Europe, Japan, and ANZ, providing strategic counsel on messaging, positioning, and stakeholder engagement
• Develop and lead integrated internal and external communications strategies aligned to business priorities, the Medtronic Mission, and CST objectives
• Oversee end-to-end planning and execution of regional communications programs, ensuring consistent narrative alignment across markets with flexibility for local customization
• Partner across Integrated Communications, Global Marketing, operating units, and in-country communicators to drive a coordinated “One CST” approach and ensure effective flow of priorities, insights, and feedback
• Advance and protect the company’s reputation through media relations, thought leadership, product launch support, crisis communications, and market development initiatives
• Lead internal communications and employee engagement strategies that connect employees to business priorities, organizational changes, leadership messaging, and the broader CST mission
• Measure communications effectiveness and use insights to continuously refine strategies, strengthen message pull-through, and optimize impact across regions

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Marketing, or related field
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in corporate communications, public relations, or integrated communications (or 5+ years with advanced degree)
• Proven experience developing and executing integrated communications strategies across multiple channels and audiences
• Good level in English
• Experience working in global or multi-market environments, with sensitivity to cultural and regional differences
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence and counsel senior leaders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Medtronic is committed to safeguarding the principle of non-discrimination in employment on the basis of sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, as set out in Article 14 of the Constitution and Articles 17 and 18 of the Workers' Statute, as well as Organic Law 3/2007 of 22 March on effective equality between women and men and Law 4/2023 for the real and effective equality of transgender people and the protection of LGTBI rights. This commitment applies to all company personnel without exception. This is done with the understanding and conviction that equal treatment and opportunities in the workplace must be guaranteed, ultimately ensuring an inclusive working environment that advances the eradication of discrimination against LGTBI people and the absence of any direct or indirect discrimination on the grounds of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and those derived from maternity, family obligations and marital status.

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.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Italy: 66,400.00 EUR - 99,600.00 EUR | Spain: 65,600.00 EUR - 98,400.00 EUR | United Kingdom: 65,600.00 GBP - 98,400.00 GBP | 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 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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here