About the role
AI summarisedThe Manufacturing Operations Quality Director leads a manufacturing site to excellence in product quality and operational excellence at Medtronic, a global healthcare technology company. This role drives quality and operational strategies, oversees compliance programs, and manages audit and inspection processes. The director also leads teams, influences senior leadership, and ensures uniform quality standards worldwide.
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Key Responsibilities
- 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 company's 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.
Requirements
- Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead multiple job areas, and detailed functional and operational expertise.
- Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function.
- Requires 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.
- Manages department(s) or small unit that includes multiple teams led by managers and/or supervisors.
- Provides motivational leadership for the area managed.
- Provides thought and technical leadership.
- Performs work without appreciable direction.
- Leads the development of the strategy for own department or business area, ensuring links to the company's aims and objectives.
- Management authority to make large business decisions and some strategic decisions.
- Decisions impact the financial performance, employees, or public image of the operational unit and/or company.
- Typically has budget or P&L accountability for a department, broad functional area or geography.
- Drives innovation across the business area, encouraging best practice and knowledge sharing.
- Significantly improves, changes or adapts own department or business area's processes, systems, products or services.
- Problems and issues faced are complex, difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.
- Develops long term strategic relationships and alliances with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Communicates and conducts briefings with senior or executive leadership regarding ongoing operations and strategic initiatives.
- Influences across functions and businesses to negotiate and gain cooperation on operational issues and internal divergent objectives.
- Directs and leads a department, broad functional area or geography, including one or more teams led by managers and/or supervisors.