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

We’re a mission-driven leader in medical technology and solutions with a legacy of integrity and innovation. Work with us to incentivize better patient care, and partner across the industry to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. Be a part of a community of experts committed to ensuring quality, affordable healthcare worldwide.

Come strengthen your specialized skills and enhance your expertise. We’ll support you with the training, mentorship, guidance, and networks you need to advance, and empower you to work in the way that’s best for you. Together, we can confront the challenges that will change the face of healthcare. Join us for a career that changes lives. The position will be located at Panamá.

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

• Provides oversight for the development and maintenance of quality programs, systems, processes, and procedures to ensure compliance with policies and that the performance and quality of services conform to established internal and external standards and guidelines
• Provides expertise and guidance in interpreting policies, regulatory and/or governmental regulations, and internal regulations to assure compliance
• Works directly with operating entities to provide process analyses oversight on a continuing basis to enforce requirements and meet regulations
• Leads audit and inspection preparation, resolution of audit and inspection findings, and liaises with auditing groups and inspectors through all stages of the audits
• Prepares reports and/or necessary documentation (examples: Corrective and Preventative Actions) and provides them to applicable stakeholders, both internal and external
• Co-ordinates legal requests in support of government investigations or litigations
• Ensures the quality assurance programs and policies are maintained and modified regularly
• Facilitates uniform standards worldwide and enables best practice sharing, thereby fostering the achievement of the company's mission globally

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Fluent in English
• Two years of relevant experience, working with warehouse and distribution, ensuring compliance with quality standards, and compliance with regulations of health records in Panama and Central America
• Experience in SAP Management, Logistics and Planning, ISO certifications
• Yellow, green or black belt certificate is advantageous
• Risk management and project management are a plus.

Primary skills:

• Customer oriented. Networking, communication, negotiation
• Prioritizing. Situational judgement with challenging scenarios, critical thinking
• Problem solving, supporting customers, and promoting efficiency and agility
• Self-developed and self-empowered.

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 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.