Quality Systems Director
MiniMed
Summary
At MiniMed, quality is at the heart of our commitment to improving the lives of people living with diabetes. We're looking for a Quality Systems Director to provide enterprise leadership and strategic oversight of our global Quality Management System, strengthening governance, regulatory compliance, and organizational effectiveness across MiniMed. In this highly visible leadership role, you'll drive QMS strategy, harmonization, training governance, and continuous improvement while partnering with senior leaders across the organization to identify emerging risks, and build scalable quality systems that support our business and the patients we serve.
Job description
Responsibilities
- Leads MiniMed Quality Management System framework ensuring effective governance, regulatory compliance, and executive oversight across all MiniMed Quality Management Systems
- Establishes and monitors MiniMed's mechanisms to evaluate QMS effectiveness, identify systemic risks, measure performance, and drive continual improvement across global quality organizations
- Directs the global quality training governance program, establishing MiniMed competency, qualification, and training effectiveness requirements to ensure consistently implementation across all quality system entities
- Provides strategic oversight of Quality Management System change management processes, ensuring significant QMS changes are appropriately assessed, approved, communicated, and implemented across impacted organizations
- Leads MiniMed QMS assessments of emerging and revised QMS regulatory requirements, standards, and industry expectations, ensuring timely implementation and alignment of quality system controls across all QMS entities
- Drives harmonization, simplification and alignment of quality system requirements, governance models, and best practices across global sites and QMS entities
- Leads development of MiniMed quality objectives, quality system metrics and executive reporting mechanisms that provide leadership visibility into QMS performance, compliance status, emerging risks, and organizational effectiveness
- Ensures ongoing inspection and audit readiness for the QMS processes in scope and provides executive leadership during regulatory inspections and audits involving those processes
- Chairs or leads cross-functional governance forums related to Management Controls, QMS effectiveness, training governance, and quality system maturity to ensure consistent enterprise decision-making
- Leads and develops a global Quality Systems organization responsible for MiniMed governance processes, ensuring adequate resources, capability development, succession planning, and operational excellence
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
- Bachelors Degree with 10+ years of quality systems experience and 7+ years experience in people management OR Advanced Degree with 8+ years of quality systems experience and 7+ years experience in people management
Nice To Have
- Previous experience leading Quality Systems Teams within medical device industry
- Experience with leading and supporting FDA auditing
- Previous PMS experience
- Experience leading large organizations in strategy and execution of quality systems
- Previous experience developing global quality systems strategy
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree with 10+ years of quality systems experience and 7+ years experience in people management OR Advanced Degree with 8+ years of quality systems experience and 7+ years experience in people management
- Previous experience leading Quality Systems Teams within medical device industry
- Experience with leading and supporting FDA auditing
- Previous PMS experience
- Experience leading large organizations in strategy and execution of quality systems
- Previous experience developing global quality systems strategy
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health savings account
- Healthcare flexible spending account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Short-term disability coverage
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Employee assistance program
- Non-qualified retirement plan supplement
- Capital accumulation plan
Company overview
MiniMed is a leading medical device company specializing in diabetes management technologies, with a rich history dating back to its founding in 1983 by visionary entrepreneur Alfred E. Mann. Originally acquired by Medtronic in 2001, MiniMed recently became an independent publicly-traded company in 2026, trading on Nasdaq under the ticker "MMED" with a market capitalization of approximately $5.29 billion. The company is headquartered in Northridge, California, and employs nearly 8,000 dedicated professionals focused on advancing diabetes care. MiniMed is unique as the only diabetes technology company that manufactures both insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), offering integrated systems like the MiniMed 780G system with SmartGuard technology. Their flagship products include automated insulin delivery systems, continuous glucose monitoring sensors, and smart insulin pens designed to simplify diabetes management and improve patient outcomes. With a mission to make diabetes more predictable and manageable, MiniMed has established itself as a pioneer in diabetes technology, providing innovative solutions that help patients achieve better glucose control and enhance their quality of life.