Sr Marketing Specialist

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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.

A Day in the Life

＜Position Title＞ Senior Product Specialist (Surgical @ Tokyo)
＜Working Location＞ Shinagawa HQ

About OU

The Surgical Operating Unit is a key business within Medtronic, focused on advancing minimally invasive therapies through innovative surgical technologies. Our portfolio includes surgical instrumentation, energy devices, stapling solutions, and robotic-assisted platforms, enabling clinicians to deliver safe, efficient, and high-quality care. We collaborate closely across functions including Sales, Marketing, Clinical, Service, and Digital teams to drive market expansion, improve patient outcomes, and create value for healthcare systems. The OU plays a critical role in shaping the future of surgery by integrating technology, data, and clinical insights.

Main Responsibilities

The Senior Product Specialist is responsible for transitioning the Global Marketing Commercialization plan for the Advanced MIS Platform to the Japan Commercial plan. From a Downstream Marketing perspective, this position will work with COT leaders/regional ambassadors to ensure execution of fiscal plan while identifying and supporting market development initiatives. Within the region of responsibility, the Senior Product Specialist will ensure alignment to the Global Strategy, will assess and help to build/expand functional capabilities while serving as the regional conduit for Global Marketing, but will plan, lead and direct the marketing for the product portfolio. This highly visible role offers candidates an opportunity to develop and implement profitable growth strategies for a key business franchise within Medtronic. Candidates with appropriate experiences will find this position rewarding & yielding multidisciplinary challenges, as well as opportunities for career growth. An ideal candidate for this position will possess strong marketing, healthcare, & managerial experiences with notable strategic thinking skills. Knowledge of the hospital/surgical space is required.

Your responsibilities include the following:

• Upstream Marketing: Identification of upstream opportunities for market including organic and inorganic opportunity assessment
• Downstream Marketing: Identify and support market development initiatives
• Develop strategies and execute marketing plans and programs, both short-and long-term, to ensure the profitable growth and market share of the assigned portfolio.
• Information Technology Service and Data Solution Marketing: Build strategies and execute data management business including AI technologies
• Strategic Input: Voice of region within PMT
• Develop promotional strategies, sales support materials, educational aids, etc. to grow market share to ensure sales excellence.
• Oversee the development of customer satisfaction survey and needs assessment to continuously improve business models and communicate to global partners.
• Regional Ambassador: Ensure alignment to broader Surgical global strategy
• Assess and support to build/expand functional capabilities
• Conduit to regional marketers
• Department specific/Non-essential functions
• Other duties as assigned with or without accommodation.

Must Haves

Job Experience

• 5 ~ years of experience in Marketing and Sales.
• Proven success in marketing and business management.

Skill / Knowledge

• Team orientation, collaboration, written/oral communication, analytical and customer focus, and priority
• Exceptional quantitative, analytical, written and verbal skills in English.
• Proven track record of planning, execution and results

Competency

• Executing in the Matrix, Strategic Agility, Managing Vision & Purpose, Decision Quality, Business Acumen and Innovation Management

Education

• University degree or its equivalent, MBA a plus
• Engineering degree is a plus

Nice to Haves

Job Experience

• Certification in sterile processing (e.g., CBSPD, CHL (HSPA)) is a plus as higher than 2nd level/class which is recognized by Japanese society.
• Medical cloud service consultation is a plus

Working Style

Key element is flexibility and ability to work independently. Ability to travel as much as necessary for position (up to 60% travel)

Benefits

At Medtronic, we believe that the success of the company and the growth of our employees go hand in hand. We offer comprehensive benefits and compensation programs designed to enhance the financial, physical, and mental well-being of each employee. Up to 360,000 yen per year in childcare subsidies
Six weeks of leave for family members who require nursing care or for adoption
Babysitter and nursery school matching services
Career development, including mentor programs and e-learning
Internal career network to support women's advancement
Employee stock purchase program etc.

Others

Allowances

Commuting allowance, overtime allowance, holiday work allowance, etc.

Holidays

Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, etc.

Vacation

Annual paid leave, sick leave, menstrual leave, maternity leave, etc.

Working Hours

9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

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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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. 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

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