Sr. Director Communications (Pelvic Health), Rice Creek, MN

Medtronic • Mounds View, MN

1d • $205,600 - $308,400 • Onsite

About The Position

This role leads strategic communications for the Pelvic Health Operating Unit, a growth-driver business within the Neuroscience Portfolio. Reporting to the President of Pelvic Health and functionally to the Vice President Neuroscience Communications, the individual will develop and execute integrated communication strategies to accelerate business growth and strengthen culture. The position involves shaping a Pelvic Health narrative to support global leadership in sacral neuromodulation, accelerated growth in implantable tibial neuromodulation, and commercial transformation. It requires a business-minded communications leader who can translate strategy into clear, compelling, audience-centered communications that build confidence, drive alignment, and reinforce accountability during a period of rapid change and opportunity.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 15 years of relevant experience in an integrated communications, business or corporate communications role and 10+ years of people or program managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 13 years relevant experience and 10+ years of people or program managerial experience.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in communications, marketing, or a related field.
• Expertise in media, investor relations and public relations.
• Experience leading teams and contributing to a matrix leadership model.
• Strong generalist experience across multiple communications disciplines.
• Proven ability to build trust and establish credibility with all levels of management, including executive leadership.
• Experience leading communications in a highly matrixed, global organization, with a preference for healthcare, medical technology, or other highly regulated industries.
• Demonstrated success serving as a strategic advisor to senior business leaders during periods of transformation, growth, or organizational change.
• Strong ability to translate business strategy into clear communication plans that drive alignment, engagement, and action.
• Experience supporting global product launches, commercialization efforts, and market-shaping campaigns.
• Demonstrated strength in employee communications, culture activation, and change communications.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated experience using metrics and audience insights to measure communication effectiveness and optimize strategy.
• Familiarity with digital channels, modern communications tools, and data-enabled approaches to audience engagement.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive communications strategy that advances Pelvic Health’s business priorities, aligns with the Operating Unit President’s voice, and supports the broader Neuroscience portfolio.
• Ensure communications help employees and stakeholders understand where the business is going, why it is changing, and how each priority connects to growth, patients, and performance.
• Shape and amplify a clear, differentiated Pelvic Health story centered on expanding patient access, accelerating Altaviva adoption, sustaining SNM leadership, and positioning the business as a bold innovator in incontinence care and broader urology.
• Translate complex business and clinical priorities into compelling narratives for internal and external audiences.
• Guide executive communications and thought leadership plans that elevate key leaders and position Pelvic Health as a category leader with a credible, forward-looking point of view on market development, innovation, patient impact, and commercial transformation.
• Lead communications that support major transformation efforts across people, process, technology, and culture.
• Build communication strategies that reinforce role clarity, readiness, accountability, and confidence as the organization evolves to support growth, launch execution, and new ways of working.
• Lead the strategic development and execution of integrated campaigns that connect business strategy, product storytelling, patient impact, and brand reputation across earned, owned, and internal channels.
• Ensure campaigns support key moments such as launches, training milestones, market activation, and leadership engagement.
• Partner with business and HR leaders to strengthen employee connection to strategy, activate culture, and reinforce a high-performing, growth-oriented mindset.
• Develop communications that help teams navigate change, celebrate progress, and stay aligned around shared goals and expectations.
• Build and manage strong relationships with media, analysts, and industry influencers to enhance visibility and elevate Pelvic Health’s reputation externally.
• Identify proactive opportunities to showcase innovation, patient outcomes, clinical progress, and business momentum.
• Proactively shape the Pelvic Health operating unit’s identity across paid, earned, shared, and owned channels.
• Lead communications planning and response strategies that protect trust, support leadership decision-making, and maintain credibility during issues, change events, or crises.
• Use data and audience insights to assess the effectiveness of communication strategies, strengthen message resonance, and continuously improve outcomes.
• Link communications metrics to business priorities such as engagement, launch visibility, brand awareness, and organizational readiness.
• Partner closely with GCCM colleagues and cross-functional leaders across marketing, commercial, HR, clinical, and corporate communications to represent Pelvic Health’s priorities, bring enterprise strategies to life within the operating unit, and elevate Pelvic Health stories in enterprise channels.

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
• 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: Director