Senior Quality Operations Manager

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.

Medtronic

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose

At our Quality Department in Medtronic, plc, we focus on our involvement in every step of the manufacturing process from development to the patient, ensuring our products are safe, perform as intended and meet customer and regulatory requirements. Senior Quality Managers are directly involved in providing overall leadership and direction to the Quality Operations organization, ensuring the safety, efficacy & performance of our product.

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A Day in The Life Of:

• You will manage, motivate & lead the development of your group(s) thus ensuring a uniform approach to key activities overseeing performance, developing talent, engagement and inclusion, communicating business and operational developments, planning, prioritizing and / or directing their responsibilities.
• You will manage the continued implementation of the Medtronic Performance System (MPS) & associated 'One Best Way' standards, driving, advocating, and influencing change through process and systems excellence.
• You will establish department goals, budgets, measurement and metric systems in line with business objectives to ensure quality standards are achieved and effectively managed.
• You will participate in developing strong links with all functional stakeholders, collaborating with a wide range of departments and levels locally and across the wider Medtronic business as required to develop and harmonize systems and practices.
• You will identify opportunities for improvements and be responsible for assigning and managing resources to support improvement projects.
• You will approve appropriate corrective actions per departmental procedure.
• You will maintain up-to-date knowledge of quality system regulations and industry practices applicable to areas of responsibility ensuring all areas are managed to the highest quality standards in compliance with corporate, regulatory and GMP requirements.
• You will provide 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.
• You will lead audit and inspection preparation, resolve audit and inspection findings and liaise with auditing groups and inspectors through all stages of the audits.
• You will provide your expertise and guidance in interpreting policies, regulatory and/or governmental regulations, and internal regulations to assure compliance.
• You will work directly with operating entities to provide process analyses oversight on a continuing basis to enforce requirements and meet regulations.
• You will prepare reports and/or necessary documentation and provide to applicable stakeholders, both internal and external.
• You will ensure the quality assurance programs and policies are maintained and modified regularly.

Key Skills & Experience

• You will be a qualified person to Level 8 Degree in Engineering / Science or related discipline and a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience.
• You have mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function.
• You will have a broad management knowledge to lead project teams.
• You are a dynamic team player and leader and can work effectively and proactively on cross-functional teams.
• You are experienced with quality systems & quality operations knowledge.
• You are an experienced manager with proven leadership skills, multi-tasking skills and process improvement tools.
• You have strong decision making, judgment and influencing skills. 3
• You are a good communicator and fluent in English, both in writing and speaking.

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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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. 

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.
 

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.

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