MINNEAPOLIS — Medtronic has tapped BP’s Valerie Corr Hanserd to lead global operations & supply chain communications.

In the newly created role, Hanserd will serve as a strategic communications partner to the GO&SC leadership team and oversee communications for the more than 40,000 Medtronic employees across supply management, manufacturing, enterprise risk and facilities, operations quality, and supply chain.

The GO&SC communications team will report to Hanserd. She, meanwhile, will report directly to GO&SC executive VP Greg Smith, and functionally to global CCO and corporate marketing head Torod Neptune, who joined Medtronic from Lenovo in January.

Hanserd will be joining Medtronic August 2 after a 17-year career at BP, where she most recently led communications and advocacy for the energy company’s customer-facing businesses in the US, as well as well as Canada and Latin America. She previously held a variety of roles in government and public affairs, communications, and crisis response.