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** Begin your life-long career of exploration, innovation, and championing healthcare access and equity for all. Join a healthcare technology company that alleviates pain, restores health, and extends life for more than two people every second. The Government Affairs role in Medtronic Nordics is responsible for shaping and advancing the company’s public policy agenda across Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. This includes proactively engaging in dialogue with policymakers, health authorities, industry associations, and key stakeholders to advocate for policies that foster patient access to innovations and public-private partnerships for ensuring resilient healthcare. This is a remote position, primarily based in Denmark (Copenhagen) or Sweden (Stockholm), and requires a willingness to travel throughout the Nordic area. **Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:** + Develop and maintain strong relationships with policymakers, decision makers, and health authorities in the Nordics, while monitoring and analyzing legislative and regulatory developments that may impact MedTech and Medtronic’s operations, and representing Medtronic in discussions with government bodies, trade associations, and other stakeholders + Advocate for policies that foster implementation of MedTech innovations, healthcare transformation, and patient access – including Health Technology Assessment (HTA) for MedTech and reforms supporting healthcare digitalization + Advocate for partnership with the healthcare sector to support the transformation of healthcare and ensure a resilient healthcare system + Collaborate with internal teams to develop policy positions and key messages aligned with Medtronic’s strategic objectives + Build and manage relationships with healthcare organizations, trade associations, patient advocacy groups, and other external stakeholders, and actively participate in industry forums, conferences, and working groups to represent Medtronic’s interests + Develop and execute a government affairs strategy for the Nordics, providing strategic advice to senior leadership on political and regulatory risks and opportunities, and managing Medtronic arrangements at the Nordic political summit weeks + Work closely with operating units and enterprise accounts/integrated health solutions teams in the Nordics, preparing briefing materials, position papers, and reports, communicating policy updates and advocacy outcomes internally, and collaborating with the global government affairs team as a member of the Western Europe government affairs council **Required Knowledge and Experience:** + Extensive professional experience in driving policy issues and opportunities, supported by a relevant academic degree + Established networks with politicians, authorities, and other decision-makers and organizations within healthcare, as well as a good ability to continuously create new contacts + Strong understanding of the Nordic political and regulatory landscape and healthcare policies + Strong ability to build relationships with government officials, health authorities and industry associations. + English and at least one Scandinavian languages, preferably Swedish and basic skills in the other Scandinavian languages + Strong analytical skills and the ability to assess the impact of policy changes on the Medtech sector and Medtronic + Strategic mindset with an initiative-taking and results-driven approach **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.  **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. This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). **About Medtronic** 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. Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here (http://www.medtronic.com) 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 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. For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support. 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