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A Day in the Life

The Senior Creative Media & Design Specialist, Japan is responsible for creating impactful, customer-centric creative assets that connect patients and customers with our innovation, strengthen brand engagement, accelerate commercial impact, and maximise the value of our focused portfolio. This role serves as a key creative partner to marketing and commercial teams, translating strategic objectives into compelling visual communications across digital, print, video, events, and multichannel campaigns.
The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic and highly skilled creative professional who thrives in a dynamic environment and embraces change. They will bring extensive expertise across the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, including InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, to deliver high-quality creative solutions that elevate customer experiences and support business growth.
With a passion for continuous improvement, the Senior Creative Media & Design Specialist will identify opportunities to streamline creative workflows, leverage global platforms and templates, and enhance the efficiency and scalability of content production. The role will also champion the adoption of AI-enabled tools and innovative technologies to simplify processes, improve productivity, and accelerate speed to market while maintaining the highest standards of creative excellence and brand consistency.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• In-house creative expert that supports internal clients to develop brand-right, print, digital and interactive materials that helps deliver business results, including PowerPoint presentations, internal and external marketing collateral, animation, audio, and video.
• Responsible for concepting, design, production, account management, traffic coordination, copywriting, quality assurance, print supervision and budget management.
• Ensures on a consistent basis that high quality work is delivered on time and on budget.May manage third party design agencies and/or consultants in support of business objectives.

SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Seasoned individual contributor. Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions. Coaches and reviews the work of lower level specialists; may manage projects / processes.

Organizational Impact: May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area. Contributes to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas or specialties. Makes improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area. Analysis provided is in-depth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.

Communication and Influence: Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors. Exchange information of facts, statuses, ideas and issues to achieve objective, and influence decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area. May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product.

Required Knowledge and Experience: High School Diploma or equivalent with 8+ years of relevant experience in creative media design, graphic design, or content creation, or equivalent experience (OR Associate's Degree with 6+ years experience OR Baccalaureate Degree with 4+ years experience).

 

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. 

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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).