Senior Compliance Specialist

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. A Day in the Life At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies, and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. As a Senior Compliance Specialist, you will serve as a strategic compliance business partner responsible for supporting the development, implementation, and oversight of an effective compliance program that promotes ethical business conduct and mitigates compliance risks across commercial operations. You will provide expert compliance guidance to business leaders and employees, support risk assessments and monitoring activities, oversee channel partner compliance programs, and help ensure adherence to company policies, industry codes, and applicable laws and regulations. The role requires the ability to influence stakeholders, balance business objectives with compliance requirements, and drive a strong culture of integrity throughout the organization.   This is an individual-contributor role and the position will be in Mumbai in India and has responsibility mainly for India Subcontinent (subject to changes). The position will report directly to the India Subcontinent Compliance Officer. Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned: Strategic Business Partnership • Serve as a trusted advisor to commercial and functional stakeholders on compliance and data privacy matters. Understand business strategies, operating models, commercial priorities, and emerging initiatives to provide timely and practical compliance guidance. • Advise on Global Business Conduct Standards/Compliance Policy such as HCP/HCO interactions, sponsorships, educational grants, consulting arrangements, and promotional activities, in adherence with applicable laws, codes, regulations, and company policies. • Clearly document compliance advice, risk assessments, approvals, exceptions, and agreed mitigation actions. • Monitor regulatory and industry developments and support the implementation of relevant changes in policies, processes, systems, training, and business practices. • Support the integration of privacy principles into business processes, digital initiatives, customer programs, vendor arrangements, and projects involving personal or sensitive data. • Promote privacy-by-design principles by encouraging teams to consider data minimization, purpose limitation, appropriate access, retention, security, transparency, consent, and individual rights at the beginning of an initiative.   Data Analytics and Risk Insights • Develop dashboards, metrics, and reports for management and compliance leadership to analyse trends. • Translate analytical findings into clear risk insights, recommendations, and action plans for business and compliance stakeholders, for continuous improvement of the compliance program. • Utilize data analytics to identify opportunities for process and control enhancements. • Establish and monitor key performance indicators supporting continuous improvement. • Track remediation activities and evaluate whether implemented actions have appropriately addressed identified risks. Compliance Monitoring and Process Reviews • Support in developing and executing risk-based compliance monitoring plans aligned with country, business, and program priorities. • Conduct risk-based compliance review