About the role
AI summarisedThe Manufacturing Operations QA Director at Medtronic leads quality and operational excellence initiatives at a manufacturing site, ensuring product quality, compliance with internal and external standards, and alignment with company mission. This role involves driving quality and GOSC strategies, managing audit and inspection processes, fostering global best practices, and providing technical oversight for quality assurance systems. The director also manages people, develops talent, leads cross-functional teams, and has accountability for departmental performance, budget, and strategic decision-making.
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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
- Directs and leads a department, broad functional area or geography, including one or more teams led by managers and / or supervisors
- Determines supervisory relationships, and creates workforce and staffing plans to accomplish business results
Requirements
- Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead multiple job areas
- Detailed functional and operational expertise
- Mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline
- Baccalaureate degree (or equivalent for degrees earned outside the United States)
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience
- Advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience
- Authorizes hiring, firing, promotion and reward within own area
- Ability to develop 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
- 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
- Ability to gather, analyze, and investigate complex, difficult and undefined problems to understand root causes
- Management authority to make large business decisions and some strategic decisions