Strategic Meeting Planning Specialist

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**:Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
We can accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Come strengthen your specialized skills and enhance your expertise. We’ll support you with the training, mentorship, guidance, and networks you need to advance, and empower you to work in the way that’s best for you. Together, we can confront the challenges that will change the face of healthcare. Join us for a career that changes lives. This will be a hybrid position in Bogotá.

**Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned**:

- Plan and organize internal and external business-related meetings, symposiums, conferences, and program events by working with meeting stakeholders to align and execute against strategic direction (e.g., meeting objectives, desired outcomes, intended audience, content coordination, creative and innovative engagement techniques).
- Address all aspects of budget and billing, including development of and tracking against budgets, identification, and capture of cost savings/cost avoidance efforts, reconciling master bill, coordinating payments to vendors, and managing meeting expenses.
- Investigate, source, negotiate, and coordinate hotel and ancillary meeting services (includes contractors, vendors, onsite staff) while managing all logistics of program functions, including but not limited to meeting space set-up, catering, arrangement of air and ground transportation.
- Facilitate attendee experience through website & registration site design, event promotion and communication, and attendee management to support needs related to meeting attendance (e.g., accommodation requests, RSVPs for sessions, travel manifests).
- Generate, analyse, and communicate event level and cross-event reporting against identified key meeting metrics and value-proposition indicators, as needed.
- Ensure lab is booked accurately, specimens and all necessary product/equipment is ordered and available during event for optimal attendee experience

**Required Knowledge and Experience**:

- Highschoo degree
- Fluent in English
- Two years of related experience administrative support, functional roles, customer-facing position, meeting planner, concierge or related to hotel industries
- Excellent organizational skills required with ability to prioritize in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment

Experience leading process improvements, change initiatives and other projects with demonstrated results and knowledge of Cvent Event Management is advantageous.

**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 90,000+ 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.