Tandem Diabetes Care

Manager, Global Vigilance

Tandem Diabetes Care
Posted 10/20/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $110,000 - $130,000 per yearWebsite
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Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in post-market surveillance for medical devices, including field actions, complaint handling, and regulatory reporting. Proven leadership in managing cross-functional teams and driving compliance with regulatory requirements while enhancing process performance.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Post-Market Surveillance ManagementRegulatory ReportingField Action LeadershipPeople ManagementProject Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
PMP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Provide leadership and oversight for post-market surveillance activities supporting the safety, performance, quality, and regulatory compliance of medical devices
  • Manage Global Post-Market Surveillance personnel, primarily the Field Action Specialist group
  • Establish priorities, allocate work and resources, coach and develop employees, and ensure training and coverage
  • Oversee post-market surveillance processes, including field actions, vigilance reporting, complaint analysis, trending, signal detection, post-market data review, and regulatory reporting
  • Collaborate with Complaint Management, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Medical or Clinical Affairs, Product Safety, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, Legal, and other functions
  • Develop, review, and present PMS metrics, product issues, vigilance performance, field action status, and process performance to management and governance bodies
  • Support evaluation, documentation, escalation, and submission of potentially reportable events
  • Support preparation, review, or approval of vigilance, follow-up, supplemental, trend, and regulatory authority reports
  • Review post-market data to identify trends, signals, changes in product issues, and support investigation and escalation
  • Lead global field actions, including recalls, corrections and removals, Field Safety Corrective Actions, Field Safety Notices, product corrections, safety alerts, and jurisdiction-specific market actions
  • Lead cross-functional field action teams from initiation through documented closure
  • Maintain awareness of global post-market surveillance requirements and support procedures, training, metrics, process improvement, audits, inspections, resource planning, and management reporting
  • Support department planning for headcount, budgeting, training, and systems requirements
  • Participate in staff selection, development, performance appraisal, merit recommendations, and promotions
  • Ensure staff training and compliance with company policies, Privacy/HIPAA, and legal and regulatory requirements

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, life sciences, nursing, pharmacy, regulatory affairs, quality assurance, business, project management, or a related discipline, or equivalent education and applicable work experience
  • Eight years of progressively responsible experience in regulated life sciences
  • Five years of experience in post-market surveillance or a closely related function
  • Two years of formal people-management, supervisory, or equivalent team-leadership experience
  • Experience with electronic quality management, complaint handling, regulatory reporting, or comparable PMS systems
  • Proficiency with standard business applications
  • Broad working knowledge of medical device post-market surveillance, including field actions, complaint handling and analysis, vigilance and adverse event reporting, trending, signal detection, risk management, and quality system principles
  • Demonstrated people-management skills, including prioritization, delegation, coaching, performance management, and employee development
  • Experience leading complex cross-functional projects
  • Experience supporting regulatory inspections, audits, or regulatory authority interactions
  • Demonstrated project management capability
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including regulatory, technical, customer-facing, and executive-level communications
  • Ability to influence and drive accountable execution across functions and regions without relying solely on direct reporting authority
  • Skilled in communicating department or area issues and results and presenting technical information
  • Skilled at leading cooperative team efforts and organizing resources to achieve team goals
  • Ability to make and prioritize process and resource decisions based on overall team needs
  • Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States
  • Successful completion of pre-employment drug test and background check required
  • Experience with connected, software-driven, drug-delivery, durable medical equipment, or other complex medical devices preferred
  • Direct experience with medical device field actions, recalls, corrections and removals, Field Safety Corrective Actions, international vigilance reporting, complaint trending, or signal detection preferred
  • Formal project management training or certification (e.g., PMP) and/or quality or regulatory certification preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits available the first day
  • Health savings accounts
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • 11 paid holidays per year
  • Minimum of 20 days of paid time off, with accrual starting on day 1
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Bonus and competitive compensation package
  • Fully remote work within the United States
  • Equipment provided
  • Virtual training

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Hard Skills
Post-Market SurveillanceComplaint HandlingVigilance ReportingSignal DetectionRisk ManagementQuality System PrinciplesData AnalysisRegulatory ComplianceProcess ImprovementTrend Analysis
Soft Skills
Analytical SkillsProblem-Solving SkillsCommunication SkillsCoaching SkillsTeam Leadership
Tools & Technologies
Electronic Quality Management SystemsBusiness ApplicationsPMS Systems
Certifications & Qualifications
Project Management Certification (e.g., PMP)Quality or Regulatory Certification
Industry Keywords
Medical DevicesField Safety Corrective ActionsAdverse Event ReportingRegulatory InspectionsLife Sciences