Location: Boston,MA, USA
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 3 Jan 2025
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**
Quality leadership opportunities
At Medtronic, we're driven by a commitment to Quality in everything we do, especially when it comes to patient therapies and devices. This focus on excellence means we're always looking for talented Quality leaders to join our team.
If you have a passion for quality and the responsibilities below align with your experience, we encourage you to connect with us, by applying today. We're confident that Medtronic offers the right fit and opportunities for Quality leaders like you, focused on end-to-end quality functions, including pre and post market expertise.
Comprised of professionals around the world, the Quality team serves as a trusted partner, playing a pivotal role ensuring our products deliver exceptional value by maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, and compliance throughout the entire product lifecycle.
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.
**EXECUTE QUALITY STRATEGY TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE & PRODUCT SUPERIORITY**
+ Through strategic and proactive leadership, develop and implement the Quality strategy and plan that drives significant improvements, are aligned with strategic priorities, and deliver a Put Patients First culture
+ Accountable for predictive and proactive 'total product lifecycle' product superiority (reliability, product security, digital quality) and patient safety
**DRIVE AND DELIVER HIGHEST QUALITY PERFORMANCE**
+ Depending on the role, accountable for pre-market and/ or post-market quality programs including collaboration with other key Quality teams such as operations, enterprise, and regional quality teams.
+ Implementing processes and policies in compliance with quality and business strategies to ensure financial and strategic goals are attained
+ Accountable for compliance of quality system and representation with regulatory agencies. Ensure quality standards align across various standards
**BUILD AND MAINTAIN A DIVERSE, HIGH PERFORMANCE CULTURE**
+ Create and foster a diverse, ethical, accountable, and competitive culture
+ Design organizational structure aligned with required capabilities to deliver quality
+ Manage talent through learning and development activities for direct and dotted-line Quality reports
**CRITICAL LEADERSHIP DIFFERENTIATORS:**
+ Extensive Quality experience across multiple products, disciplines, and geographies
+ Proven capability to develop strategies and execute on business objectives
+ Strong business acumen and sound judgment to support and execute strategic plan
+ Strong interpersonal, planning and continuous improvement skills
+ Develop employees with skills, knowledge, and capabilities to move the business forward
+ Express, model, and reinforce integrity, transparency, accountability, ability to self-start, and respect for people
+ Create environment for open communication and enable strong relationships across the enterprise
+ Change agent with a strong drive for compliance
+ Possess strong technical skills, product expertise
+ Versed in AI and Med/Tech Software, current and future state
**Must Have: Minimum Requirements**
**TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME**
+ Bachelor's degree in engineering or a technical discipline.
+ Minimum of 15 years of combined experience in quality, engineering or a related function with 10+ years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 13 years of combined experience in quality, engineering or a related function with 10+ years of managerial experience
**Nice to Have**
+ Demonstrated experience and competence influencing and managing cross-functionally and across multiple engineering disciplines.
+ Mastery of managing complex issues , design controls and quality system regulations
+ Experience in interacting with customers
+ Experience with or conversant with the CAPA process
+ Experience in interacting with manufacturing sites
+ Lifecyle product development and ability to manage quality requirements
+ Extensive knowledge of hardware and software for medical devices
+ Medical device or highly regulated industry experience
+ Technical, data driven mindset
+ Strategic leadership elements -- ability to influence, collaborate, lead change, differentiate value creation
**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.
**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):$212,800.00 - $319,200.00
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.
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).
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**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 90,000+ 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.
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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 90,000+ 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 life-long 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 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 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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