Senior Marketing Specialist, Neurosurgery & ENT

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

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. 

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.
 

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.

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