Sustainability Director – EurAsia

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

Medtronic is seeking a dynamic and experienced Director of Sustainability for the EurAsia region to lead our sustainability initiatives. Reporting to the Chief Sustainability Officer, this role will, preferably, be based in The Netherlands and will involve significant engagement with regulatory bodies, customers, commercial, and financial teams and their leaders. The Director will provide leadership to current team members based in the EU and UK, ensuring alignment with Medtronic's global sustainability strategy and enterprise-level goals. The role will involve travel, as needed and authorized, within Europe and to other locations covered by Medtronic’s EurAsia region, and for business-critical office meetings in the United States.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Strategy: Lead and manage sustainability initiatives across the EU and UK, ensuring alignment with Medtronic's global sustainability strategy and global sustainability policy. Support the corporate sustainability team in strategic direction and leadership in the EU region. Engage in internal and external forums, as asked by the CSO, to advance Medtronic’s sustainability position and business interests.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with sustainability-related regulatory agencies to ensure compliance with sustainability-related regulations and standards. Represent Medtronic in discussions with regulatory agencies and industry groups. Work closely with customers, trade associations, and industry groups/collaboratives, and other key stakeholders to promote Medtronic's sustainability initiatives and communicate achievements. Develop and maintain effective communication, build and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders to drive progress toward established goals.
• Commercial and Financial Collaboration: Collaborate with commercial and financial teams to integrate sustainability into commercial business strategy and commercial operating activities. Ensure that sustainability initiatives support Medtronic's commercial and financial interests.
• Team Leadership: Provide leadership and support to current team members based in the EU and UKI region primarily, and then as needed in Middle East-AsiaPac region covered by Medtronic EurAsia. Be recognized as a ‘playing captain’, driving projects forward individually and collectively through exemplary behavior and results. Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment that encourages innovation and continuous improvement.
• Project Proposals & Management: Recommend business-relevant sustainability projects, develop proposals and get them funded through EurAsia business and functional leadership, as well as through other funding agencies (i.e. EU govt). Oversee the planning, implementation, and monitoring of sustainability projects. Ensure that projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards.
• Reporting and Communication: Develop and deliver regular reports on sustainability performance to senior management. Communicate sustainability achievements and challenges to internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Sector/Industry Experience: Proven experience in the healthcare sector and/or MedTech industry, or otherwise highly regulated adjacent sector or industry (e.g. BioTech, Pharma, Life Sciences, Chemicals) highly regulated industries, with a clear understanding of sector-specific sustainability challenges and opportunities.
• Sustainability Expertise: Extensive experience managing diverse sustainability initiatives in the EU. Knowledge of sustainability regulations, standards, and best practices in the broader EurAsia region (including Australia).
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire teams. Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to effectively engage with regulatory bodies, customers, and internal teams. Apart from English, fluency in one or more prominent European languages is an advantage.
• Project Management: Strong project management skills, with a track record of successfully delivering complex sustainability projects.
• Educational Background: A degree in sustainability, environmental science, business, or a related field. Advanced degrees or certifications in sustainability are a plus.

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.

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

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.

Who We Are

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.

What We Do

We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities
• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

How We Are Different

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

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