.**Careers that Change Lives**A career at Medtronic is like no other. We're purposeful. We're committed. And we're driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide.Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds, and their individual life experiences to work every day. It's no accident —we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it's the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions.**A Day in the LifeIn this exciting role as a Sr. Supplier Quality Engineering Manager, you will have responsibility for leading a large team of Supplier Quality Engineers in the Tijuana & Empalme, Mexico manufacturing sites within the Vascular Therapies & Implants + Drug Chemistry Technologies (VTI+DCT) platform. You will be accountable for changes to existing supplied products and processes, as well as oversight of performance and improvement activities.You will also lead the oversight of supplied products, ensuring conformance to purchased materials or finished devices requirements and management of nonconforming product in compliance to Medtronic Purchasing and Supplier Controls, FDA, and international requirements and Quality System Regulations.Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:- Manages a large team of Supplier Quality Engineers, Supervisors and/or Managers that are responsible for ensuring delivery of quality parts, materials, and services.- Manage performance, develop talent, engagement and inclusion, communicate business and operational developments, plan, prioritize and/or direct the responsibilities of direct reports.- Accountable for mentoring, developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives, providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives to include defining performance goals and targets, conducting performance reviews, and staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals.- Develop/maintain monitoring systems to track supplier & team performance (training, nonconformances, open actions, supplier changes, supplier quality improvement programs, strategic initiatives, goals, etc.)- Develops new objectives, new operating policies, products, processes and standards in support of the job function strategy.- Leads cross-functional teams of engineers and manufacturing functions to investigate and resolve supplier-related quality or compliance issues discovered during incoming inspection and/or production.- Lead team in corrective/preventive actions to resolve supplier-related issues (e.G., nonconformances, CAPA activities, audit findings, complaint investigations, etc.).- Sit on the VTI+DCT Supplier CAPA (sCAPA) Board and/or act as sCAPA Board Chair
