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Are you seeking variety in your day-to-day work… seeking a job that lets you think and strategically plan? If you love the satisfaction of seeing meetings and events successfully come together, know how to prioritize tasks and your time, and have strong customer service skills... then you sound like the perfect addition to the Team!

A Day in the Life

· In compliance with Medtronic policies and relevant regulations, plans and organizes internal and external business-related meetings, symposiums, conferences, and program events by working with meeting stakeholders to align and execute against strategic direction (e.g., meeting objectives, desired outcomes, intended audience, content coordination, creative and innovative engagement techniques).

· Addresses all aspects of budget and billing, including development of and tracking against budgets, field chargebacks, identification, and capture of cost savings/cost avoidance efforts, coordinating payment to vendors, and managing meeting expenses according to AOP.

· Lead hotel sourcing for all SHA HCP meetings, including Cvent RFP development, proposal reviews, end user recommendations, hotel negotiations, and contract review. Expert in contractual terms, MSAs, and hotel addendums.

· Manage and grow vendor relationships with hotel partners and lead sourcing agency.

· Generates, analyzes, and communicates event level and cross-event reporting against identified key meeting metrics and value-proposition indicators, as needed. Manage quarterly cost savings and cost avoidance data to roll up to Sr. leadership.

· Team leadership: Manage workload assignments in Cvent and Smartsheet, lead team meetings, create and refine processes among meeting planners and shared service teams, employee training and mentoring. Assist leadership with data and miscellaneous strategic projects as needed. Manage training and onboarding of new employees.

· Cross functional leadership: Represent SHA on the Medtronic Meeting Advisory Board, lead the meeting best practices bi-monthly workstream.

· As needed, managing logistics of program functions, including but not limited to space set-up, food and beverage, arrangement of air and ground transportation, passport and VISA clearances, book and coordinate AV/Production and Auxiliary Technical Services, program registration and transfer of value for Sunshine tracking post program.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required and 10 years of relevant experience in the meeting planning industry, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.

Nice to Have

• Experience working in a fast paced, global organization

• Certified Meeting Planner (CMP)

• Cvent knowledge and experience

• Previous experience with an association or membership organization

• Experience planning and monitoring budgets for events

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager, recruiter or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)

Min Salary

131200

Max Salary

196800

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.