Senior Marketing Specialist, Neurosurgery & ENT

Flexible Work Arrangement Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Full time R63771 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** Join Medtronic as a Senior Marketing Specialist to help drive the adoption of ENT, Cranial & Spinal enabling technologies across Central and South Africa. This role offers flexible working and requires up to 50% travel to support marketing initiatives, customer events and market development.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate technical innovations into impactful messaging, while ensuring quality and compliance. At Medtronic, you'll contribute to meaningful projects, develop your career, and help advance healthcare with a global leader in medical technology.

**Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:** + Develop and execute integrated marketing plans tailored for Central and South Africa to support product launches, market development, and portfolio growth + Collaborate with global, regional, and local marketing, sales, and clinical teams to ensure messaging alignment across the region + Identify regional market trends, customer insights, and competitive dynamics to inform strategy and tactical plans + Create and manage marketing collateral, sales tools, digital content, and educational materials highlighting the value of capital equipment such as StealthStation(Medtronic's advanced surgical navigation system that enhances precision in ENT, cranial and spinal procedures), O-arm, NIM Vital, Visualase, Midas Rex etc.

+ Support the development of customer-facing presentations, case studies, and testimonials + Participate in cross-functional launch teams to ensure successful commercialization of new products and features + Gather and analyze regional market intelligence, providing regular reports and insights to leadership and stakeholders + Ensure all marketing materials and activities comply with regulatory requirements and Medtronic's quality standards **Required Knowledge and Experience:** + Master's degree in Marketing, Business, Engineering, or a related field + Minimum of seven (7) years experience working with capital equiment, preferably in medical devices, healthcare, or life sciences + Strong communication, organizational, and project management skills + Ability to thrive in a matrixed, cross-functional, and multicultural environment + Proficiency in Microsoft Office and digital marketing tools Experience with surgical or enabling technologies in neurosurgery, ENT or orthopedic surgery, an advanced degree in business, engineering, or healthcare-related discipline, familiarity with industry regulations and compliance messaging, and experience in a regional marketing role are desirable and will be considered an advantage.

**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.?

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We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage. 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. **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.

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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...

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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.

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