Sr. Clinical Quality Manager

Medtronic; Lafayette (CO); On-site; USD 162,000 - 244,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Medtronic is seeking a Senior Manager, Clinical Quality to provide strategic leadership for clinical quality systems and compliance across CMAH. You will lead a high-performing team, align governance, and enable business growth while protecting patients in a highly regulated environment.

You will partner across Clinical, Medical Affairs & HEPR to standardize processes and drive quality outcomes, while building a scalable operating model that improves efficiency and risk management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience, including 5+ years in management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing team with strategic direction and succession planning.
• Provide strategic leadership for quality management systems, compliance programs, and inspection readiness.
• Partner across CMAH functions to drive process consistency and governance.
• Establish governance processes for quality standards and risk management.
• Oversee quality data, trends, and regulatory submissions and communications.
• Lead quality audits, inspections, investigations, and corrective actions.
• Drive governance forums like QMR, CQFR, QDR with actionable recommendations.
• Build partnerships across CMAH to foster a culture of quality and continuous improvement.

Skills

People leadership

Quality systems

Regulatory compliance

Audits and inspections

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Onsite

Lafayette, Colorado, United States of America

Mounds View, Minnesota, United States of America

North Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Full time

R77507

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 30 Sep 2026

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Are you a people leader who thrives at the intersection of quality, compliance, operational excellence, and patient impact? Medtronic is seeking a Senior Manager, Clinical Quality to provide strategic leadership for clinical quality systems, compliance, and quality excellence across the Surgical CMAH organization. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the vision and strategy for clinical quality while leading a high-performing team dedicated to protecting patients, ensuring the integrity of clinical research activities, strengthening stakeholder trust, and enabling business success in a highly regulated environment.

This leader will play a key role in advancing quality excellence while driving business processes consistency across the Clinical, Medical Affairs & HEPR (CMAH) functions. By aligning, standards, and ways of working, they will create a more consistent, efficient, and scalable operating environment that enhances compliance, reduces complexity, and supports business growth and innovation.

In this role, you will provide strategic leadership for clinical quality and business process excellence across CMAH. You will lead and develop a high-performing team, partner with functional leaders to strengthen governance and manage risk, and drive consistent processes and operating practices that improve organizational effectiveness and quality outcomes.

If you are energized by developing people, influencing across functions, and driving meaningful organizational impact, this role offers the opportunity to help shape the future of clinical quality and operational excellence across the Surgical organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and empower a high-performing team through strategic direction, coaching, talent development, succession planning, and capability building to drive sustainable organizational performance and quality excellence.
• Provide strategic leadership for quality management systems, compliance programs, and inspection readiness activities, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements, company policies, and business objectives.
• Partner across Clinical, Medical Affairs & HEPR (CMAH) functions to drive business process consistency, operational excellence, and standardized ways of working that improve efficiency, accountability, and quality outcomes.
• Establish and strengthen governance processes that promote consistent quality standards, risk management practices, and informed decision-making across the organization.
• Oversee the assessment, reporting, and communication of quality data, trends, and risks, including submissions to regulatory agencies and internal stakeholders.
• Lead quality audits, inspections, investigations, and remediation activities, ensuring timely resolution of issues and effective implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
• Drive Quality Management Review (QMR), CQFR, QDR, and related governance forums by translating quality insights into actionable recommendations that support leadership decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Build strong partnerships across CMAH and key cross-functional stakeholders to advance a proactive culture of quality, compliance, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required and minimum of 7 years of experience with 5+ of managerial experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with 5+ of managerial experience.

Nice to Have

• Healthcare/Medical Device Industry Experience
• Understanding of the clinical Quality and Regulatory environments

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$162,400.00 - $243,600.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans (https://www3.benefitsolver.com/benefits/BenefitSolverView?page_name=signon&co_num=30601&co_affid=medtronic)

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. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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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

• 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 life-long learning

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 it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies

No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world

Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care

Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

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. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare settingis 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.

This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here (https://www.e-verify.gov/employees) .