Sub-Regional Medical Lead

Amazon Inc.; México; Hybrid; MXN 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is recruiting a Regional Occupational Health Physician to lead clinical and regulatory health operations for sites within the sub-region in Mexico. You will serve as the Sanitary Officer and clinical authority, ensuring compliance with NOMs, COFEPRIS, and health laws while overseeing audits, documentation, and medication governance.

You will mentor OMR staff, coordinate with WHS, PXT, and Legal, and drive preventive health initiatives, surveillance programs, and ergonomics strategies

Qualifications

• Medical degree from a Mexican institution recognized by SEP.
• Valid professional license issued by the General Directorate of Professions.
• Specialty or postgraduate training in Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology, or Public Health.
• Minimum 2 years of occupational health experience.
• Willingness to travel 60–80% within Mexico.
• Fluent in English and able to take direction in English.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the designated Sanitary Officer and clinical authority for all sites in the assigned sub-region.
• Ensure regulatory compliance with the General Health Law, COFEPRIS, NOMs, and labor/health laws; audit and safeguard records.
• Provide physician supervision to nursing staff; review return-to-work plans and fitness-for-duty determinations.
• Establish medication governance with COFEPRIS; standardize formularies and audit records.
• Execute occupational surveillance programs and lead vaccination and prevention campaigns.
• Support medical surveillance exams and PPE compliance; protect medical records and confidentiality.
• Mentor OMR team; standardize clinical protocols; ensure emergency equipment readiness.
• Participate in monthly business reviews; collaborate with WHS, PXT, Operations, and Legal; drive health outcomes.

Job description

Key job responsibilities

As the Regional Occupational Health Physician, you will serve as the designated Sanitary Officer and clinical authority for all sites within your assigned sub-region.

• Regulatory Compliance: Serve as the designated Sanitary Officer under the General Health Law and COFEPRIS requirements. Sign and maintain operational notices and regulatory documentation, ensure compliance with applicable NOMs and labor/health laws, conduct compliance audits, attend regulatory inspections, and safeguard clinical records and personal data.
• Clinical Supervision of OMR Operations: Provide direct physician supervision (NOM-019-SSA3-2013) to nursing staff in AMCARE spaces, act as the clinical authority for diagnoses, restrictions, and prescriptions, oversee daily OMR activities, and review return-to-work plans, fitness-for-duty determinations, and workplace accident management.
• Medication Governance: Establish a formal medication approval process aligned with COFEPRIS, standardize formularies across the sub-region, approve clinical protocols for medication administration, and audit medication and controlled-substance records.
• Epidemiological Surveillance & Prevention: Execute occupational surveillance programs, implement prevention campaigns based on regional data, lead vaccination and early-detection drives, and support heat-stress and exposure-control strategies in coordination with WHS.
• Medical Surveillance & Occupational Health Exams: Support surveillance programs (NOM-030-STPS-2009 / RFSST), periodic health exams, pre-employment and fitness-for-duty assessments, biological monitoring, and PPE compliance, while ensuring medical record confidentiality.
• OMR Team Development: Mentor and train OMR staff, standardize clinical protocols and documentation across the sub-region, and ensure competency in emergency equipment, inventory management, and Safety and Hygiene Committee participation.
• Strategic Leadership: Participate in monthly business reviews, collaborate with WHS, PXT, Operations, and Legal, support the regional medical lead's national agenda, and drive improvements in associate health outcomes and attrition mitigation.

This role requires regular travel (60–80%) within the assigned sub-region of Mexico.

A day in the life

No two days look exactly alike in this role, but here's a glimpse of what yours might involve:

You start your morning reviewing overnight incident reports and care statistics across the sites in your sub-region. A workplace injury was logged at one location last night, so you connect with the OMR nurse on site to review the initial care documentation, confirm the ST-7 was properly managed, and begin coordinating a Return-to-Work plan that aligns the associate's medical restrictions with available job functions.

Mid-morning, you travel to one of your assigned sites for a scheduled compliance audit. Walking the AMCARE space, you verify that the infrastructure and equipment meet NOM-005-SSA3-2018 requirements, review clinical records for traceability and retention compliance, and spot-check medication logs and controlled-substance documentation. You identify a minor deviation in the formulary and work with the nursing staff on a corrective action plan on the spot.

Over lunch, you join a remote Monthly Business Review, presenting your sub-region's health metrics, injury/illness trends, and compliance status to leadership — and flagging an emerging musculoskeletal trend that you recommend addressing with a targeted ergonomics prevention campaign.

In the afternoon, you provide clinical supervision and mentorship to the OMR team: reviewing a complex fitness-for-duty case that exceeds their scope, validating a medical clearance for work at heights, and running a short teaching session on NOM-035 mental health screening and referral pathways. You close the day collaborating with WHS and PXT colleagues on a heat-stress mitigation strategy for the upcoming season, and reviewing a Privacy Notice update to ensure associate health data stays protected.

Throughout it all, you are the clinical and regulatory anchor for your region — balancing hands‑on physician leadership with the strategic, preventive, and compliance work that keeps associates healthy and sites compliant.

About the team

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Basic Qualifications

• Experience working to appropriate health & safety standards and regulations
• Speak, write, and read fluently in English, and have the ability to take direction in English
• Medical degree from a Mexican institution recognized by the Ministry of Public Education (SEP)
• Valid Professional License issued by the General Directorate of Professions
• Specialty or postgraduate training in Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology, or Public Health
• Legally authorized to sign regulatory filings and assume personal legal responsibility for health operations across multiple sites
• Minimum 2 years of occupational health experience.
• Experience providing physician supervision of nursing staff in a clinical or occupational health setting
• Willingness to travel 60–80% within Mexico

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in operations management
• Prior experience as COFEPRIS Sanitary Officer
• Experience with IMSS regulatory processes including workplace accident reporting and ST form management
• Knowledge of the Regulation of the General Health Law on Medical Care Services and NOM-005-SSA3-2018 (infrastructure and equipment for ambulatory care facilities)
• Experience supporting occupational epidemiological surveillance programs
• Experience with clinical auditing, quality assurance, and continuous improvement methodologies
• Knowledge of NOM-019-STPS-2011 (Safety and Hygiene Committees) and its application in operational environments

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Veterans, military spouses, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.