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.

A Day in the Life

This position will be based in our Copenhagen office and will be a part of the Global Sustainability team as the product steward to support Medtronic in the Nordic countries to fulfill and impact the mandatory sustainable criteria in tender submissions. Depending on your studies and exams, we expect you to work around 15 hours per week, with the possibility to work more during the company’s peak times and main vacation times.

Internship details:

• Start date: 15th November
• Working hours: 15 hours per week
• Location: Copenhagen
• Work model: hybrid
• Duration: 12 months

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

You will work with various stakeholders in close collaboration with our Nordic Pricing, Contracting & Tender Management team, the Employee Health & Safety team, the Regulatory team and Engineering and Packaging teams.

• Communicate trends in Tender Submissions to Enterprise Product Stewardship to influence product and packaging design and change management in Business Units and Functions as required.
• Impacting the Product Stewardship and Sustainability agenda internally as well as externally to keep Medtronic competitive
• Work on opportunities in the pre-tender phase to avoid non-bid situations further downstream
• Supplying answers for Tender Submissions; Formulating and updating working documents to be used with tender submissions
• Support submissions by building and maintaining a database for all tender requirements and necessary regulatory documents
• Resolution of internal and external customer inquiries
• Support the Nordic countries EHS & Regulatory by responding to societal trends and customer concerns relating to product transparency.

Required knowledge:

• Studying in the last year of the Bachelor studies or in the first year of Master’s, preferably in the fields of Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Environment and Sustainability or similar.
• Knowledge in EU Directives and Regulations such as RoHS, REACH, POPs, MDR, etc., and in EHS management systems (i.e. ISO14001, ISO13485, ISO45001 and ISO50001) is preferred.
• Fluent in both written and spoken English.
• Proficient with all Microsoft Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook).
• Strong people and communications skills.
• Highly motivated, eager to learn and with a positive can-do mentality.
• Have a keen eye for detail and are extremely organised and curious.

Would be a plus:

• Fluent in Danish, or any of the other Scandinavian languages with both written and verbal knowledge.
• Any experience in the healthcare/ medical devices sector would be appreciated.

Physical Job Requirements

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. 

Benefits & Compensation

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.
 

About Medtronic

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here