Director, Quality & Regulatory

Medtronic; London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare technology company in London is seeking a Quality System Director to oversee quality programs and compliance. The successful applicant will manage teams, lead strategic initiatives, and ensure adherence to regulatory standards. Strong leadership and communication skills are required, alongside a background in quality assurance. This position includes a competitive salary and flexible benefits package.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible benefits package

Short-term incentive plan

Qualifications

• Experience managing teams or departments effectively.
• Ability to lead strategic initiatives and make significant decisions.
• Expertise in regulatory requirements and quality assurance.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight for quality programs ensuring compliance.
• Lead audit preparations and resolve findings.
• Develop strategies for department or business area.

Skills

Leadership

Process Improvement

Regulatory Compliance

Communication

Strategic Thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

A Day in the Life

Medtronic is hiring a Quality System Director. The person is a management and supervisory professional focused on tactical, operational and some strategic activities within a specified area. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, managing performance, developing talent, engagement and inclusion, communicating business and operational developments, planning, prioritizing and directing the responsibilities of direct reports. A key responsibility is managing people, including mentoring, developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives, providing leadership to staff to prioritize strategic and department level initiatives, defining performance goals and targets, conducting performance reviews, and staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts toward departmental goals.

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business, and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides the team with an opportunity to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.

Responsibilities may include

• Provides oversight for the development and maintenance of quality programs, systems, processes and procedures that ensure compliance with policies and that the performance and quality of services conform to established internal and external standards and guidelines.
• Provides expertise and guidance in interpreting policies, regulatory and/or governmental regulations, and internal regulations to assure compliance.
• Works directly with operating entities to provide process analyses oversight on a continuing basis to enforce requirements and meet regulations.
• Leads audit and inspection preparation, resolution of audit and inspection findings and liaises with auditing groups and inspectors through all stages of the audits.
• Prepares reports and/or necessary documentation (e.g., Corrective and Preventive Actions) and shares with applicable stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Coordinates legal requests in support of government investigations or litigations.
• Ensures the quality assurance programs and policies are maintained and modified regularly.
• Facilitates uniform standards worldwide and enables best practice sharing, thereby fostering the achievement of the company's mission globally.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Autonomy: Manages department(s) or small unit that includes multiple teams led by managers and/or supervisors. Provides motivational leadership for the area managed. Provides thought and technical leadership. Performs work without appreciable direction.
• Organizational Impact: Leads the development of the strategy for own department or business area, with management authority to make large business decisions and some strategic decisions. Typically has budget or P&L accountability for a department, broad functional area or geography.
• Innovation and Complexity: Drives innovation across the business area, encourages best practice and knowledge sharing. Significantly improves or adapts processes, systems, products or services; problems and issues are complex and require analysis and investigation.
• Communication and Influence: Develops long-term strategic relationships with key stakeholders. Communicates with senior or executive leadership regarding ongoing operations and strategic initiatives. Influences across functions to gain cooperation on operational issues.
• Leadership and Talent Management: Directs and leads a department or geography, including one or more teams. Determines supervisory relationships and staffing plans. Responsible for hiring, promotion and rewards within own area.
• Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead multiple job areas and detailed functional and operational expertise. Typically has mastery level knowledge within a specific discipline with broad understanding of related areas.

Physical Job Requirements

The statements describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this position; they are not exhaustive of all responsibilities and skills.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package

A commitment to our employees is central to our values. We recognize contributions and 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) and for an annual long-term incentive plan.

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 (http://www.medtronic.com)

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.

We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities
• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of lifelong learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life and creates a culture of belonging and career-building resources.

Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives and empower patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world. Our mission to improve human welfare drives us to advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design.

Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints, AI, data, and automation. You’re shaping the future of healthcare technology.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient-facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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