Senior Compliance Specialist

Medtronic; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 400,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

A global healthcare technology leader based in Johannesburg is hiring a Senior Compliance Specialist. You'll manage compliance policies, drive training programs, and foster partnerships to ensure adherence to legal standards. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in compliance and speaks English fluently, alongside another European language. This role contributes to impactful healthcare solutions.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible benefits package

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in compliance required.
• Fluency in English and one European language necessary.
• Good communication skills and proactive attitude required.

Responsibilities

• Manage compliance policies and procedures.
• Drive employee communication and training programs.
• Foster strategic partnerships with stakeholders.
• Create action plans in response to audits.

Skills

Compliance management

Stakeholder communication

Analytical skills

Project management

Legal knowledge

Job description

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 In partnership with the business, we lead a world class ethics and compliance program that mitigates risk, while fostering and championing a culture of ethics and compliance. We help the business deliver results in the right way, every day. As Senior Compliance Specialist, you will be the primary point of contact for the countries and operating units you will support. You will partner with Centers of Expertise and Legal Business Partners to ensure the business can achieve its strategic objectives while mitigating risks. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions – we’re a market leader and growing every day. You can be proud to be a part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation. You will be empowered to shape your own career. We support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Together, we can transform healthcare. This position will reside in Johannesburg but supports countries outside South Africa.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Implement and manage development, implementation, administration of compliance policies, procedures, and practices to ensure alignment with legal and ethical standards of the organization
• Drive employee communication and training programs to support the elements of the companywide compliance program
• Maintain current knowledge of laws for financial, advertising and marketing reporting, regulations, and industry guidance that impact the company's compliance program. Understand and collaborate on a wide range of competing business priorities, market challenges, and tailor risk-based compliance solutions accordingly
• Foster strategic partnerships with multiple key internal and external high-level stakeholders, including executive leadership, to ensure local and regional compliance program deliverables are met. Demonstrate ability to identify key risks and the related controls with operating unit processes and design control test steps to address key risks
• Create and manage effective action plans in response to audit discoveries and compliance violations. Support global Compliance Audit & Monitoring Team, including project management, test design, testing and key control identification
• Participate in creation of periodic metrics, dashboards, and reporting of monitoring results as needed
• Implement and manage development of channel compliance program in the territory based on global channel compliance program, ensure transparency requirements are met.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• 5 years of experience in compliance
• Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and manage multiple projects or tasks simultaneously
• Good communication skills and proactive attitude towards stakeholders
• Fluent in English and one European language
• High analytical skills
• Good knowledge of legal requirements and procedures.

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.

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