At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

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

• Leads a manufacturing site to excellence in product quality operational excellence and a culture of putting patients first.
• Drives the combined Quality and GOSC strategies to deliver results.
• Interacts with and influences leaders across multiple leadership teams (Core Quality OUs and GOSC).
• 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.
• Leads audit and inspection preparation resolution of audit and inspection findings and liaises with auditing groups and inspectors through all stages of the audits.
• Facilitates uniform standards worldwide and enables best practice sharing thereby fostering the achievement of companys mission globally.
• May develop evaluate implement and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems or reliability systems and standards pertaining to materials techniques or company products.
• Organizes the coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONAL CAREER STREAM:Management and supervisory professionals with one or more employees who are focused on tactical operational and some strategic activities within a specified area. Levels within the management career stream typically have six or more direct reports. 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 / or directing the responsibilities of direct reports. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and / or indirect reports. A key responsibility of roles in this career stream is managing people. which includes: accountability for mentoring developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives to include defining performance goals and targets conducting performance reviews and staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy:Manages department (s) or small unit that includes multiple teams led by managers and / or motivational leadership for the area thought and technical work without appreciable direction.

Organizational Impact:Leads the development of the strategy for own department or business area ensuring links to the companys aims and authority to make large business decisions and some strategic impact the financial performance employees or public image of the operational unit and/or has budget or P&L accountability for a department broad functional area or geography.

Innovation and Complexity:Drives innovation across the business area encouraging best practice and knowledge improves changes or adapts own department or business areas processes systems products or and issues faced are complex difficult and undefined and require detailed information gathering analysis and investigation to understand the problem.

Communication and Influence:Develops long term strategic relationships and alliances with key internal and external and conducts briefings with senior or executive leadership regarding ongoing operations and strategic across functions and businesses to negotiate and gain cooperation on operational issues and internal divergent objectives.

Leadership and Talent Management:Directs and leads a department broad functional area or geography including one or more teams led by managers and / or supervisory relationships and creates workforce and staffing plans to accomplish business hiring firing promotion and reward within own area.

Required Knowledge and Experience:Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead multiple job areas and detailed functional and operational has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience with 7 years of managerial experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with 7 years of managerial experience.

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 95000 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