About the Role
Title: Senior Convention Specialist – Pelvic Health
Location: Remote United States
Full time
Job Description:
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
Careers that Change Lives
Affecting 1 in 6 Americans, incontinence has a higher prevalence than vision problems or diabetes. Similarly, fecal incontinence impacts 1 in 12 adults in the U.S, more than Alzheimer’s or Asthma. Each day, millions of people worry if they’ll get through class, work or a trip to the store without an accident. In the Pelvic Health Operating Unit, our goal is to expand access to our therapies so we can help millions of people get their lives back.
The Sr. Conventions Specialist will play a pivotal role in planning, organizing, and coordinating national conventions, regional conferences, and select international conventions. This position is critical in building the brand and contributing to business growth through strategic planning and tradeshow execution. The role requires extensive planning, project management, attention to detail, internal and external coordination, budget management, and a marketing mindset to optimize tradeshow investments.
This position can be remote within the United States.
A Day in the Life
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
Event Planning and Strategy
- Develop the annual convention strategy aligned with our product and operating unit priorities and in coordination with cross-functional partners.
- Execute all planning objectives for National, Regional, and Local conferences while ensuring detailed organization and communication with internal teams.
- Manage the annual conventions budget and align key decisions with leadership.
- 30%-40% Travel Required
Vendor and Stakeholder Management
- Develop strong working relationships with vendors and internal partners, ensuring high expectations for project execution.
- Engage with stakeholders, including leadership team and speakers, to ensure their needs are met.
- Work closely with medical societies to negotiate convention sponsorships and activations.
Marketing and Promotion
- Engage with the marketing team to align tradeshows with campaigns, messaging, and marketing objectives.
- Lead asset development and booth design for tradeshows.
- Ensure all assets, messaging, and signage are approved and aligned with regulatory, legal and clinical requirements.
- Drive engagement of healthcare professionals (HCPs) and lead generation to maximize awareness and education of offerings.
On-site Event Management
- Attend and manage the tradeshow booth at all US conferences, including vendors, sales teams, leadership VIP meetings, and other critical on-site functions.
- Oversee and coordinate the set-up and breakdown of event spaces.
- Manage registration processes and attendee communications.
Post-event Evaluation
- Conduct post-event debriefs to evaluate success and identify areas for improvement.
- Analyze attendee feedback and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure event impact and send report to leadership.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
To be considered, these minimum requirements must be evident on your resume.
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in managing tradeshows, meeting/event planning, or similar experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience
Nice to Have
- CMP and CTSM Certification preferred.
- Experience executing Tradeshow strategies with a company in the medical device, life science, or pharmaceutical industry.
- Excellent project management skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Understanding of medical device regulatory and compliance guidelines.
- Solid experience in a large corporate environment with a complex matrix culture.
- Track record of building impactful marketing initiatives.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams.
- Ability to set, track and meet deadlines.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision while driving alignment with stakeholders at all levels.
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.
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 or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.