Sr Commercial Strategic Planning Specialist - Surgical

Medtronic • Columbus, OH

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Within U.S. Surgical, we are undergoing a period of transformation to accelerate growth, enhance execution, and strengthen our commercial model. We are seeking a U.S. Sr Commercial, Strategic Planning Specialist to support the U.S. Surgical commercial team. This role will play a critical part in driving cross-functional initiatives, enabling operating rhythms, and ensuring disciplined execution of key priorities. This role serves as a central connector across the U.S. Surgical commercial organization—driving communication strategy, commercial alignment, operating rhythms and field enablement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience commercial project management or communications (or an advanced degree with 2+ years of relevant experience)
• Experience supporting commercial organizations or field sales teams
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced transformation environment with evolving priorities, organizational change, and high leadership visibility
• Unrestricted U.S. work authorization

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading executive communications or organizational communications
• Experience managing large-scale meetings, training, or commercial events
• Strong facilitation and organizational alignment skills
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, evolving environments with multiple stakeholders
• Healthcare or medical device experience preferred but not required

Responsibilities

• Lead internal communication strategy and content development for the U.S. commercial organization
• Drive alignment and coordination across Sales, Marketing, Commercial Capabilities, PACE, Commercial Operations and other key stakeholders
• Support governance and consistency of communications across the commercial organization
• Partner with Marketing to translate strategic priorities into clear, actionable messaging for the field
• Drive day-to-day email, newsletters and internal social messaging, as well as other recurring communication cadences
• Partner with Chief of Staff, Marketing and Sales to support annual and quarterly commercial planning processes
• Coordinate commercialization priorities and field focus areas across the organization
• Maintain governance processes, metrics, and reporting mechanisms to monitor execution against key priorities
• Track key actions, risks, dependencies, and organizational priorities to ensure follow-through and accountability
• Lead planning and execution of major commercial events including National Training Meetings (NTM), People Leader Summits
• Coordinate cross-functional inputs to ensure readiness and consistency of messaging for field-facing initiatives
• Help translate strategic priorities into actionable field engagement and enablement plans

Benefits

• Health, Dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability leave
• Dependent daycare spending account
• Tuition assistance/reimbursement
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• Incentive plans
• 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
• Short-term disability
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior