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 **:Medtronic is among the largest medical technology companies in the world. Through innovation and collaboration, Medtronic helps to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Last year, our medical therapies for the treatment of over 40 major conditions, improved the lives of more than 75 million people around the world. The Events and Conventions Training Specialist will provide operational and training support to meeting planners. This role will help develop and document event and conventions planning standard operating procedures (SOPs) and support training and onboarding of new team members. This is a hybrid position in Bogotá. **Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned**: - Ensure compliance with Medtronic policies and regulations - Plan and organize business meetings and events while collaborating with stakeholders to align with strategic goals (e.g. objectives, outcomes, audience, content, and engagement techniques) - Manage all budget and billing aspects, including budget development and tracking, identifying cost savings, reconciling master bills, coordinating vendor payments, and overseeing meeting expenses - Investigate, source, negotiate, and coordinate hotel and ancillary meeting services (including contractors, vendors, onsite staff) while managing all logistics of program functions, including meeting space set-up, catering, and arrangement of air and ground transportation - Facilitate attendee experience through website & registration site design, event promotion and communication, and attendee management (e.g., accommodation requests, RSVPs for sessions, travel bookings) **Required knowledge and Experience**: - Bachelor’s degree - Fluent in English - Two years of experience in administrative support, customer-facing roles, meeting planning, concierge services, or the hotel industry - Skilled in building strong relationships and communicating effectively 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.