Risk Manager

· Represent Risk Management on assigned development projects.

· Establish risk acceptance criteria for individual residual risks and the overall residual risk for specific devices in development and for legacy devices

· Maintain a close link to the Human Factors / Usability Engineering process to meet the needs and ensure the safety of all users and patients.

· Support creation of device design specifications to ensure that risk control measures are appropriate.

· Monitor that risk control measures have been implemented, verified, and validated.

· Maintain knowledge of current Company policies, standards and guidelines as well as industry practices, regulatory requirements, and other relevant information.

· Ensure harmonized approaches to risk management across projects.

Communicate with Research and Development team members on other projects to share lessons learned and ensure use of common tools and ideas within the team.

· Ensure that the risk management process incorporates all relevant data from the Design Authorities e.g., Design FMEAs, Security Risk Analysis, Use-related risk analysis, formative human factors evaluations and human factors validation studies.

· Ensure that risk management reports are prepared in a timely manner and in accordance with ISO 14971 and applicable Company SOPs and guidelines and are adequate for inspection by notified bodies and other relevant authorities.

· Present project-specific risk management activities at regulatory body inspections and internal audits.

· Work cross-functionally with other global functions: e.g., Global Marketing, Global Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Affairs and Manufacturing.

· Support a good link between risk management during development and risk management for marketed products.

· Ensure that all hazards associated with a medical device and aesthetic products are identified, the associated risks are estimated and evaluated and that these risks are controlled; monitors that these risk controls are implemented, verified and validated.

· Assures that Company quality and compliance standards and applicable government regulations are met by means of independent risk management for medical devices under development.

· Performs risk management in medical device and aesthetic projects and assists medical device sites in ensuring that risk management is performed in sufficient detail and in a timely manner for new device introductions and regulatory agency inspections.

· Has overall responsibility that medical devices and aesthetic products are designed to be safe, effective and in compliance with the applicable regulations worldwide.

Your skills and experience Essential:

-Minimum of 2 years of experience in regulated medical device industry

· Knowledge of usability engineering or human factors engineering for medical devices

· Knowledge in usage of risk assessment methods

· Masters Degree of Engineering degree in the following fields or equivalent (Materials, Biomaterials, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology)

· English: Fluent