Analyst, Product Surveillance III

Title: Analyst, Product Surveillance III

Location: Alameda, CA

Duration: 6 Months

100% Onsite

Shift Time: 8am to 4:30pm

Required Experience and Skills:

• 5-8+ years of medical device complaint handling or post-market surveillance experience.
• Strong working knowledge of 21 CFR Part 820, Complaint Files (198), 21 CFR Part 803, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, EU MDR, and medical device quality systems.
• Demonstrated experience independently evaluating, investigating, documenting, and closing complex medical device complaints.
• Experience supporting adverse event reporting, complaint investigations, CAPA activities, complaint trending, risk assessments, and regulatory decision making.
• Strong data analytics skills with demonstrated experience analyzing large and complex datasets to identify trends, detect emerging signals, assess risk, and support data-driven quality and regulatory decisions.
• Experience utilizing statistical analysis, data visualization, reporting methodologies, and analytical tools to evaluate complaint data, product performance, and post-market surveillance metrics.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, advanced formulas, Power Query, data modeling, and data analysis techniques.
• Experience working with SQL, databases, Salesforce, complaint handling systems, electronic quality management systems (eQMS), and business intelligence or reporting tools.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and interpreting quality metrics, dashboards, and performance reporting for management review and continuous improvement activities.
• Strong technical writing, documentation, communication, analytical thinking, data analysis, and problem-solving skills.

Job Responsibilities:

• Independently evaluate, investigate, document, and close complex medical device complaint records.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for complaint handling procedures, complaint closure decisions, regulatory requirements, and documentation standards.
• Support global vigilance reporting, adverse event reporting, and reportability assessments.
• Perform detailed quality reviews of complaint files to ensure compliance, documentation accuracy, consistency, and data integrity.
• Analyze large complaint and post-market surveillance datasets to identify trends, detect emerging product performance signals, support risk assessments, and drive data-based decision making.
• Develop and maintain complaint metrics, dashboards, reporting tools, and visualizations to support Quality System monitoring, management review activities, regulatory compliance, and business objectives.
• Utilize SQL, databases, and analytical tools to extract, validate, trend, and interpret complaint data while ensuring data accuracy, completeness, and integrity.
• Support CAPA investigations, risk management activities, signal detection, and continuous improvement initiatives through data analysis and trend evaluation.
• Author, revise, and redline complaint handling procedures, work instructions, forms, templates, and training materials.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical support to complaint evaluation and closure teams.
• Support regulatory inspections, internal audits, management reviews, and health authority inquiries.
• Collaborate with Regulatory Affairs, Medical Events, Engineering, Quality Compliance, Track & Trend, Data Analytics, Customer Service, and other cross-functional teams.
• Apply statistical and analytical methods to evaluate complaint trends, product performance data, surveillance indicators, and quality system metrics to support proactive quality improvements.
• Lead or support strategic post-market surveillance initiatives, process improvement efforts, and special projects.

Consultants Eligible Benefits Upon Waiting Period:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account (for High-Deductible Health Plans)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Limited Purpose, Dependent Care, Commuter Parking and Commuter Transit)
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability (coverage varies by state)
• Long Term Disability
• Critical Illness, Hospital coverage, Accident Insurance
• MetLife Legal, MetLife ID Fraud, and MetLife Pet Insurance
• 401(k)

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional and branded generic medicines.

Working together, Abbott and Talent Solutions partner to deliver top talent for contingent roles at Abbott, building better and healthier lives. Abbott believes all employees are essential to creating life-changing breakthroughs, performing key duties to create life-changing breakthroughs.