Job Description

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Regional Regulatory Affairs connects regulatory requirements with business priorities to enable timely market access, maintain compliance and support continued patient access to Medtronic therapies across the region. Within this function, EU Regulatory Operations translates European and country-specific requirements into practical processes, coordinating regulatory readiness, product release and economic operator obligations in partnership with business, quality and supply chain teams.

Manage the Regulatory Release team for the EU, Switzerland, Türkiye and the UK, and ensure products meet applicable regulatory requirements before reaching these markets. Work with Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Supply Chain and business teams to develop the team, resolve release barriers and improve processes to support reliable patient access to Medtronic therapies. Beyond daily operations, contribute to enterprise projects, bring regional release expertise to broader decisions and help shape systems and ways of working that make compliant product supplies simpler and more reliable.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage regulatory release for the European Union, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom, ensuring Medtronic products meet applicable requirements before entering these markets.
• Lead and develop the Regulatory Release team, setting priorities and building expertise to deliver consistent, timely release decisions.
• Resolve release barriers with Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Supply Chain and business teams, balancing compliance requirements with product availability and patient access.
• Translate regional and country-specific regulatory requirements into clear release processes, coordinating readiness as requirements and product portfolios change.
• Contribute regional release expertise to enterprise projects, ensuring broader system and operating-model decisions address market requirements and day-to-day release needs.
• Improve release workflows and cross-functional handoffs to reduce avoidable delays and make compliant product supply simpler and more reliable.

Required Qualifications

• Direct people management experience in regulatory affairs, quality or regulated operations, including accountability for team priorities, employee development and performance management.
• Hands-on medical device regulatory operations or release experience, including interpreting technical documentation and applying market access requirements relevant to applicable markets.
• Experience owning compliance-related operational decisions, resolving complex escalations with cross-functional stakeholders and delivering process or system changes through cross-functional projects.

Preferred Qualifications

• Regulatory release experience, including translating differences in market requirements into operational processes.
• Participation in external regulatory industry working groups and Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) events or activities to stay informed on regulatory developments and industry practices.
• Experience engaging with external regulatory peers to exchange practical insights, benchmark release practices and inform process improvements or enterprise projects.

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. 

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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.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Netherlands: 94,400.00 EUR - 141,600.00 EUR |

The final salary within this range will be determined based on objective, job-related criteria, including relevant experience, skills and qualifications, in accordance with our compensation framework.

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This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).