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** We are Cardiac Surgery, an innovative, unique, and growing operating unit of the largest Medtech company – Medtronic. For our major product portfolio, we seek a highly experienced Senior Marketing Specialist with extensive experience in a European or global role. Your primary responsibility is to develop and execute the Western European Marketing Plan, aligning with the Global Marketing Strategy by selecting, designing, and tailoring campaigns and tactics that are regionally relevant. These initiatives should be optimized to drive performance in support of AOP targets and strategic plan objectives. This is a key role within the Cardiac Surgery Operating Unit, with responsibility for a substantial portion of the portfolio across two distinct product categories. You will lead entire projects or processes within your area of expertise, reporting directly to the Marketing Manager Western Europe and cover the Western Europe region. The position requires regular travel, approximately 30–40% per month. **Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:** + Develop and execute an omni-channel European marketing plan aligned with Global Marketing and Leadership, in close collaboration with regional and local stakeholders, including the creation of business cases, GTM strategies, and new product launch plans tailored for Western Europe + Drive strategic campaign and content development, including adapting and creating customer-facing materials, building promotional media plans, PR strategies, and supporting clinical adoption through localized ERPs and clinical data integration + Lead pricing strategy and customer engagement, partnering with pricing teams to provide detailed guidance, engaging customers in line with KOL strategies, and organizing key European events, congresses, and marketing calendar activities + Monitor execution and performance of marketing initiatives, using tools like Salesforce, Tableau, Power BI, and Yoda to track progress, and ensuring continuous alignment through regular country reviews, customer visits, QBRs, and leadership team meetings + Drive market insights and forecasting by leading strategic planning inputs, market research, VOC, and building detailed demand forecasts for the assigned portfolio + Manage product lifecycle and pricing, including monitoring competition, adjusting pricing, and supporting key customer communications + Enable Efficient Business Operations by accurate forecasting, partnering with Demand planners, Sales operations on product allocations teams and creating customer communication related to supply. **Required Knowledge and Experience:** + Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Life Sciences, or a related field + Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in marketing + Extensive experience and a proven track record of product launches and execution + Extensive experience with value proposition formulation, market research, media and communication planning + Exceptional presentation skills, strong ability to influence, drive teams and lead projects and lead indirect teams to successful completion are required + Fluency in English and German. **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. Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here (http://www.medtronic.com) 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. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives. **We build extraordinary solutions as one team** . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. 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… + **Build** a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world + **Grow** a career reflective of your passion and abilities + **Connect** to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning These commitments set our team apart from the rest: **Experiences that put people first** . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need. **Life-transforming technologies** . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms. **Better outcomes for our world** . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls. **Insight-driven care** . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. 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. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support. 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