Eagan , Minnesota
|Remote
|Contract
Eagan, Minnesota
|Remote
|Contract
Join a global regulatory operations team supporting critical product data compliance and customer syndication initiatives across multiple markets. This role is ideal for a hands-on leader who can balance regulatory accuracy, cross-functional collaboration, and process improvement in a fast-moving environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead global UDI compliance activities and support submissions to key regulatory databases and platforms.
- Oversee customer syndication operations, including data publication requests, prioritization, backlog management, and service-level tracking.
- Review and approve complex syndication submissions while partnering with commercial, customer operations, and regulatory stakeholders.
- Maintain accurate regulatory product data, including GTINs, product hierarchy, and UDI-related attributes.
- Work closely with PLM, data hub, master data, and IT teams to support data governance and process enhancements.
- Lead a team responsible for regulatory data syndication, including coaching, workload balancing, and performance support.
- Manage cross-functional projects, build project plans, track risks and dependencies, and communicate progress to leadership.
- Monitor compliance risks and drive timely resolution of data quality or submission issues.
- Develop reporting and metrics to measure performance, support decision-making, and improve operational outcomes.
Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Regulatory Affairs, Engineering, Life Sciences, Quality, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or Data Analytics.
- At least 5 years of experience in regulatory affairs, UDI, PLM, data governance, regulatory operations, or quality systems.
- Working knowledge of UDI and product registration processes, including FDA GUDID, EUDAMED, TGA, and SWISSDAMED.
- Proven experience leading projects, managing priorities, and coordinating across multiple teams.
- Strong stakeholder communication skills with the ability to provide clear updates and escalate risks appropriately.
- Ability to manage data accuracy, compliance requirements, and operational deadlines with strong attention to detail.
- Comfort working in a team leadership capacity with accountability for coaching and development.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to use data to monitor performance and support improvement efforts.
Preferred Skills
- Medical device industry experience.
- Experience with GS1 standards and GTIN governance.
- Familiarity with regulatory information management and product lifecycle management systems.
- Exposure to data hub or master data management platforms.
- Experience using reporting and analytics tools such as Power BI or SQL.
- Master’s degree in a related field.
- Background supporting global regulatory compliance programs.
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