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** **＜** **Position Title** **＞** **Principal Customer Marketing Specialist (NM @ Tokyo)** **＜** **Working Location** **＞** **Shinagawa HQ** **＜** **About OU** **＞** Medtronic pioneered the field of neuromodulation with groundbreaking innovations, including the first deep brain stimulation (DBS) system for movement disorders. More than 40 years later, we continue to push the boundaries of innovation, constantly challenging ourselves to disrupt the markets we created. By advancing science with bold thinking and collaboration, we bring together the right expertise to engineer groundbreaking therapies and technologies that transform patient care. **＜** **Main Responsibilities** **＞** Are you ready to play a key role to help patients live a fuller life in the medical technology field? Do you thrive working in a competitive environment? Are you driven by results? The Global Neuromodulation Customer Marketing team may be the place for you. As Customer Marketing specialist for our Neuromodulation business with a focus on Spinal cord stimulation, you will be responsible for building and executing the value proposition for our target customer audience, from developing insights to designing the end-to-end customer experience. If you are passionate about a career with direct impact on Medtronic’s mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life, we hope you consider this role. Your responsibilities include the following: + Support field activities including customer dinners and presentations or any other targeted support requests. + Provide product or informational overviews to customers in support of a contract or tender. + Develop strategy for local events including conferences, trade shows, conventions, and physician events and/or programs (including sponsored and non-sponsored customer events). + Coordinate with medical education (MedEd) and professional relations for local events (sponsored and non-sponsored) and assist in both preparation and execution. + Localize marketing programs (including product launches, Market development activities) through partnerships with local stakeholders (e.g. sales, health economics, …). + Disseminate and assist on execution of competitive response strategies. + Establish deep expertise on the target customer segment. + Share findings from voice-of-customer data with rest of the business. + Analyze voice-of-customer data, monitor customer loyalty, drive new engagement opportunities, and identify, support customer advocates. + Lead nurturing through targeted engagement. + Assist in quarterly plan of action (QPOA) and customer targeting. + Ensure field and inside sales team is well equipped to execute marketing tactics. + Manage competitive intelligence by monitoring the competitive landscape and communicate current and anticipated future competitive activities to the organization. + Complete analytics to support marketing function, such as development and maintenance of market models, market scenario planning, and other ad hoc requests. **＜Must Haves＞** Job Experience + Bachelors degree and + 3 years working in product marketing OR Masters Degree and 5+ years relevant experience in the field of neuromodulation. + Track record of driving results in marketing capacity. + Demonstrated achievement of business and marketing goals. + Sales orientation or exposure to working with direct sales organizations. Skill / Knowledge + Native Japanese and fluent in English, both speaking and writing. + Good verbal and written communication skills. + Strong project management skills, organized and detailed oriented; know how to manage multiple priorities and projects with short timelines. Competency + Demonstrated strong discipline in execution; driven by exceeding results. + Ability to develop and expand relationships with key physicians, and Medtronic personnel in order to achieve business objectives. Education + Bachelor Degree (Any faculty or department is acceptable.) **＜Working Style＞** + 3~4 days a week need to be at Shinagawa HQ or visiting customers **_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.  **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. **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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