Job Description:
Job Title: Director, Policy Governance (Solventum)
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
The Director, Policy Governance owns the enterprise-wide framework for how corporate policies are created, organized, maintained, communicated, and retired. This role ensures the organization has a single, authoritative, and easily navigable source of truth for its policies — and that those policies are necessary, clear, and enforceable rather than a source of friction or risk. The Director partners with Legal, Compliance, HR, IT, Finance, and business unit leaders to build a governance model that balances risk mitigation with organizational speed and productivity.
Core Responsibilities
Policy Architecture: Create and oversee a centralized policy structure and a searchable repository for all corporate policies.
Cross-Functional Governance: Lead Policy Governance to ensure policies are understandable, effective and necessary and do not create unnecessary barriers to productivity and innovation.
Modernization & Maintenance: Develop and manage process to update or retire policies to reflect changing business, legal and regulatory requirements.
Change Management: Develop communication strategies to ensure employees at all levels understand policies applicable to them and how to follow them.
Risk Mitigation: Identify "policy gaps" that could expose the company to legal, financial, or reputational damage and draft proactive solutions.
Your Skills and Expertise
To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited institution in Law, Business Administration, Public Administration, Human Resources, Organizational Development, or a related field. An advanced degree (JD, MBA, or Master's degree) preferred.
Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in a corporate environment in the areas of Corporate Governance, Legal, Compliance, Human Resources, Ethics & Compliance, or a related discipline, including significant experience developing, implementing, or managing corporate policies and governance frameworks.
Policy & Governance Expertise: Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional policy initiatives, interpret complex regulatory or business requirements, and translate them into practical, employee-friendly guidance.
Strategic Partnership: Ability to influence and advise senior leaders on policy, governance, compliance, and risk-related matters while balancing business objectives and organizational needs.
Communication & Change Management: Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience driving policy awareness, adoption, and organizational change.
Systems & Process Management: Experience with policy management, governance, compliance, or HR systems and tools.
Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:
Strong learning agility and ability to adapt in a fast-moving, changing environment.
Project Management experience and/or exceptional organizational skills.
Ability to build strong relationships across business units and functions.
Resilience and comfort with ambiguity.
Experience in the Healthcare industry or related field.
Work location:
Remote
Travel: May include up to 10% travel
Relocation Assistance: No
Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B 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.
Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.
Solventum is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and professionalism in our recruitment process. Applicants must remain alert to fraudulent job postings and recruitment schemes that falsely claim to represent Solventum and seek to exploit job seekers.
Please note that all email communications from Solventum regarding job opportunities with the company will be from an email with a domain of @solventum.com. Be wary of unsolicited emails or messages regarding Solventum job opportunities from emails with other email domains.
Please note, Solventum does not expect candidates in this position to perform work in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County.Solventum is an equal opportunity employer. Solventum will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.
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