Manager, Product Stewardship (Orthopedics) - Medical Device Business Services, Inc.

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Job Function:

Regulatory Affairs Group

Job Sub Function:

Regulatory Affairs

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Atlanta, Georgia, United States, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, Chicago, Illinois, United States, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Dallas, Texas, United States, Irvine, California, United States of America, Miami, Florida, United States of America, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, New City, New York, United States, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Santa Clara, California, United States of America, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America, West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for a Manager, Product Stewardship, to support the Global Orthopedics Portfolio.  

This is a remote role available in all states within United States. While specific cities are listed in the Locations section for reference, please note that they are examples only and do not limit your application. We invite candidates from any location to apply.

Purpose: The Manager, Product Stewardship (PS) for Global Orthopedics will lead the product stewardship program for J&J MedTech businesses that collectively make up the Global Orthopedics franchise. The Manager is responsible for ensuring that these businesses are compliant to existing environmental product and packaging compliance and other stakeholder requirements. The Manager is responsible for communicating and escalating current and emerging product stewardship risks and opportunities to Global Orthopedics senior leadership to ensure global compliance for commercialized and new product development.

You will be responsible for:

• The Manager collaborates closely with leaders in R&D, Supply Chain, Life Cycle Management, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Finance, Procurement, Packaging, Marketing, and other business groups across the Global Orthopedics businesses to help manage business risk and institutionalize product stewardship programs in these businesses.
• The Manager will become a trusted business partner who will collaborate, inform, and guide business decisions to influence business strategy.
• The Manager will liaise with new product development teams to ensure that all environmental product and packaging compliance and environmental sustainability requirements are considered during new product design and launch.
• The Manager will influence materials and suppliers’ selection to ensure that product stewardship and sustainable product and packaging design considerations are included in new product development.
• The Manager supports and helps manage business/EtQ-generated CAPAs, providing guidance and leadership as needed to help the businesses close related CAPSs on-time, as well as provides CAPA status updates to relevant business leaders.
• The Manager supports Enterprise Regulatory Tracking and Governance by ensuring compliance with all global product stewardship requirements for Global Orthopedics – including the Enterprise Product Stewardship standard.
• The role is responsible for conducting product stewardship self-assessments, generating, and ensuring on-time closure of related CAPAs.
• Developing, maintaining, and executing internal PS and Business-facing Procedures.
• The Manager is responsible to partner with Product Stewardship Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and the MedTech Product Stewardship Emerging Regulations (PSER) Specialist/team to ensure completion of impact assessments for relevant emerging issues; ensure that mitigation plans are in place and appropriate escalations have been made to relevant business partners that ensures readiness for emerging regulatory and other risks.
• The Manager will also partner with and support as need the MedTech PS Regional Execution Leads in EMEA and AP to facilitate the execution of regional PS action plans and communications and help inform advocacy and policy.
• Additional responsibilities include but are not limited to: Conduct training of various disciplines / functions to build awareness of product stewardship regulations, emerging issues, and company policies; Coordinate responses to customer Environmentally Preferred Purchasing (EPP) questions and responses to Request for Proposals (RFP) queries; Develop and Maintain documentation and management systems to ensure global product stewardship regulations are appropriately managed.
• The Manager will also support Enterprise Sustainability (as requested) for these businesses.
• The Manager will supervise contractor(s) and will report to the Associate Director, Product Stewardship, J&J MedTech.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent level of degree is required; Advanced degree strongly preferred. Preferred fields of study include chemistry, engineering, or related sciences.
• Minimum of 8-10+ years of relevant work experience.
• Relevant experience in medical devices required; Orthopedics, Robotics, and/or Digital Surgery strongly preferred.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced dynamic environment with minimal supervision required.
• Familiarity and knowledge of global product stewardship regulations (REACH, RoHS, WEEE, Packaging Directive, Battery, CA Proposition 65, TSCA, etc.) strongly preferred.
• Experience in deploying regulatory compliance management systems and programs required.
• Ability to perform product stewardship risk assessments strongly preferred.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to engage senior business leaders is required.
• Ability to make a good business case and drive change is required.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to effectively engage and convene diverse groups required.
• Strong attention to detail required.
• Strong English communication (both written and verbal) is required.
• Familiarity and knowledge of chemistry is preferred.
• Familiarity and knowledge of product stewardship technology tools is highly desired.
• Familiarity and knowledge of Global Orthopedics platforms and J&J MedTech is preferred.
• Experience in leading multiple businesses units, functions and/or projects is preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 25% travel is required.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. 

Johnson and Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please email the Employee Health Support Center  (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $115,000 to $197,800.

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: • Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year • Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – up to 56 hours per calendar year • Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year of Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Additional information can be found through the link below. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits