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A Day in the Life
The Principal Compliance Specialist is primarily responsible for executing Global Ethics and Compliance investigations within the Office of Privacy, Integrity, and Compliance (OPIC). This role involves conducting investigations, including interviews, reviewing and analyzing documents, and ensuring the timely, thorough, and efficient resolution of ethics and compliance concerns, primarily throughout the Europe and Middle East (EMEA) region. This position requires regular engagement with business and operating units, regional ethics and compliance partners, and other relevant stakeholders across the enterprise to effectively conduct investigations. Additionally, this role demands a high level of collaboration with key stakeholders, such as compliance, legal, audit, and human resources, to ensure that appropriate personnel are consulted when necessary.The Principal Compliance Specialist reports to the Senior Director, Global Privacy & Compliance Investigations, and will coordinate and communicate across functions to ensure senior leadership in EMEA is kept up to date on investigations and trends. Strong written and verbal communication is required, and multiple languages is preferred. This role is remote, and anticipated travel should not exceed 15%.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Develop and execute timely and thorough investigations, as well as for-cause audits of distributors, consistent with established policies and procedures
- Document work using appropriate systems, tools and templates
- Coordinate with legal, compliance, human resources, and other stakeholders throughout the investigations process; report on outcomes; and participate in the remediation process
- Provide routine reporting to senior leaders across functions on investigation status, trending, insights, etc.
- Collaborate and communicate across various functions in EMEA to provide oversight to all investigations in EMEA (regardless of the function conducting the investigation)
- Foster and support an ethical/speak-up culture throughout the organization
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5-7 years relevant experience in conducting compliance investigations in a regulated or similar setting; or a relevant advanced degree and 3-5 years of relevant experience
- Experience conducting compliance investigations of varied case-types, including: compliance violations, expense misconduct, improper payments/kickbacks, financial statement fraud/accounting irregularities, conflicts of interest, trade compliance, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations and records falsification
- Experience managing large/varied caseloads, managing investigations under legal privilege, and ability to apply company policies and procedures in relation to complex investigations
- Ability to successfully work within a complex organization, including collaboration with multiple stakeholders/functions
- Must have strong integrity and character, including strict adherence to confidentiality
- Experience with local/federal health care compliance laws (e.g., Anti-kickback Statute, patient inducement laws, etc.)
- English fluency (both verbal and written)
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.
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