Government Affairs, Nordics

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 LifeOur Integrated Health Solutions (IHS) team supports our customers beyond products and devices to create more value for patients. IHS builds on Medtronic 's combination on process optimization expertise, therapy knowledge and capital resources. The team members are seasoned professionals with in-depth knowledge of the healthcare value chain. IHS partners with hospitals and clinics in long term partnerships, offering solutions that help care providers optimize costs and outcomes while driving higher value and patient satisfaction.

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 role with willingness to travel typically in the Nordics 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  
 

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