Data Protection Officer & Legal Counsel

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.

Medtronic Diabetes is looking for a Data Protection Officer & Senior Counsel to join the legal department as a key contributor to its growing world-class Global Privacy Team. Your day will include a variety of matters that will require you to assist, advise, investigate, research, and resolve legal matters as well as write corporate legal policies to ensure that company personnel are aware of and in compliance with applicable privacy laws and regulations.

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.

• Monitor and promote Medtronic’s compliance with GDPR and other applicable data protection laws, regulations, policies, and procedures, including maintaining documentation and producing compliance reports.
• Advise the organization and employees on data protection obligations and best practices, serving as a subject matter expert and providing education, awareness, and training initiatives in partnership with relevant teams.
• Develop, implement, and monitor data protection aspects of compliance programs, policies, and procedures, coordinating with cross-functional departments and business units.
• Develop, maintain, and support processes for reporting, managing, and responding to personal data breaches, privacy/security incidents, complaints, and inquiries from stakeholders and authorities.
• Serve as the main point of contact for data protection regulators, external privacy counsel, and respond to privacy-related requests and complaints from stakeholders, including customers, regulators, and data subjects.
• Review, structure, negotiate, and draft privacy, data protection agreements, and advise on data protection requirements in contracts and business activities, including mergers, acquisitions, and outsourcing.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned to support Medtronic’s privacy, compliance, and business objectives.

• In-house/corporate experience, ideally within healthcare, medical devices, or other highly regulated environments.
• Demonstrated experience building, implementing, and managing data protection programs in organizations subject to multiple privacy and data protection regulations.
• Expert-level knowledge of national and international data protection laws, including GDPR and applicable US/EU healthcare privacy frameworks.
• Familiarity with the legal and compliance implications of IT service management, customer relationship management, and cloud-based systems, including experience with negotiating data protection agreements.
• Understanding responsible AI and data governance principles, with the ability to provide legal guidance on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethical deployment of AI technologies within healthcare and medical device context.

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.

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).

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.

• 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.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient-facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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