Johnson & Johnson · 1 day ago
Manager, Product Stewardship (Cardiovascular) - MedTech
West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$117K/yr - $201K/yr
8+ years expJohnson & Johnson is a leading healthcare innovation company focused on improving health outcomes. The Manager, Product Stewardship will lead the product stewardship program for the Global Cardiovascular Portfolio, ensuring compliance with environmental product and packaging regulations while collaborating with various business functions to manage risks and support new product development.
Hospital & Health Care
Responsibilities
The Manager collaborates closely with leaders in R&D, Supply Chain, Life Cycle Management, Project Management, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Finance, Procurement, Packaging, Marketing, and other business groups across the Global Cardiovascular businesses to help manage business risks 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 (NPD) teams to ensure that all environmental product and packaging compliance and applicable regulated 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 regulated 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 CAPAs 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 Cardiovascular – including the J&J Enterprise Product Stewardship standard
The role is responsible for conducting product stewardship self-assessments, generating, and ensuring on-time closure of related CAPAs, and stewarding the completion of standard and regulation gap assessments through the internal Quality Systems process
Developing, maintaining, and ensuring the execution of 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 and updating of BU-specific Heat Maps for relevant emerging issues; ensuring 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 needed 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 development efforts
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
Qualification
Required
Minimum of a Bachelor's degree or equivalent level of degree is required
Minimum of 8-10+ years of relevant work experience
Relevant experience in medical devices required
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced dynamic environment with minimal supervision required
Experience in deploying regulatory compliance management systems and programs required
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
Ability to travel up to 25% travel is required
Preferred
Advanced degree strongly preferred
Familiarity and knowledge of global product stewardship regulations (REACH, RoHS, WEEE, EU Packaging & Packaging Waste Directive (PPWR), EU Batteries, CA Proposition 65, TSCA, etc.) strongly preferred
Ability to perform product stewardship risk assessments strongly preferred
Familiarity and knowledge of chemistry preferred
Familiarity and knowledge of product stewardship technology tools highly desired
Familiarity and knowledge of Global Cardiovascular platforms and J&J MedTech preferred
Experience in leading multiple businesses units, functions and/or projects preferred
Benefits
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
Company
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