Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist (m/f/*)

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Job Description:

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Senior Specialist Regulatory Affairs (m/f/*), you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Acting as liaison between design center regulatory affairs, regulatory consultants and distributors to enable registrations in select EMEA countries
• Managing compliance projects, developing and implementing regulatory strategies and submissions for medical devices in select EMEA countries
• Ensuring compliance with country regulatory requirements for market access and vigilance of medical devices
• Implementing regulatory strategies during product development/ introduction and /or product modification, ensuring all changes reflected in country registrations including correct labelling
• Preparing and maintaining regulatory documents for registration submissions
• Communicating to authorities, notified bodies, consultants and distributors etc.
• Preparing country-specific documentation requests for registrations, bid & tenders & reimbursement 
• Monitoring emerging regulations affecting medical devices in select EMEA  countries.

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Scientific university degree (Dipl., Master, Bachelor) or a comparable qualified education.
• Extensive experience in regulatory affairs in the medical device or pharmaceutical industry.
• Ideally, you have knowledge of the medical device regulations and standards including EN ISO 13485, EU MDR 2017/745, GMP, etc.
• Ability to work in cross-functional and cross-cultural teams 
• Good communication and decision-making skills
• Ability to negotiate with  regulatory agencies and notified bodies
• Ability to use databases and regulatory submission request tools 
• Fluent English language skills, both written and verbal
• Additional EMEA languages are a plus

Work location:

• Hybrid in Düsseldorf or Seefeld or remote within Germany

Travel: May include up to 5% domestic & international

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status.

Supporting Your Well-being 

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

Diversity & Inclusion

(*) We are an equal opportunit