Senior Director EHS&S Surgery MedTech

About the role

The Senior Director Environmental Health Safety & Sustainability Surgery MedTech is responsible for overseeing and managing the surgery EHS&S activities across both the internal and external networks, with a focus on ensuring compliance with EHS&S regulations/standards and the safety of all employees, visitors, and contractors.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement surgery EHS&S business strategies and align the business with enterprise EHS&S goals and objectives which includes budget management, organizational models/resourcing within the franchise.
• Identify and build mitigation plans for key EHS&S risks at each surgery location.
• Cultivate deep expertise and foster continuous improvement within the surgery organization, including promoting the digital ecosystem to support execution of the EHS&S strategy, management system and assurance processes.
• Lead and manage a global team of EHS&S professionals, providing direction, guidance, and support to ensure risk management and compliance with regulatory and Johnson & Johnson requirements.
• Drive greater efficiency and standardization in the deployment of EHS&S resources, processes, procedures, and programs across the surgery businesses, internal & external, while advocating for innovative approaches to solve business challenges.
• Accountable for developing a high performing team and continuous capability building.
• Provide coaching & mentoring, develop EHS&S competencies, and build a strong talent pipeline.
• Participate in surgery, strategic planning and decision-making processes, working collaboratively with Sr. Leaders in the surgery business & EHS&S organization to achieve organizational objectives.
• Assures monitoring of new legislation and emerging issues that could impact the surgery business and ensure full compliance in a cost competitive manner.
• Responsible for achieving best in class results by collaborating with business partners to integrate EHS&S into the business in a way that drives a shared accountability for EHS&S, compliance, risk reduction and drives operational value and ensure business continuity.
• Represent J&J’s position on key external working partnerships.
• Monitor and drive strong EHS&S performance metrics across the surgery business unit.
• Establish and maintain relationships with external stakeholders, including regulatory agencies, research partners, and industry associations.
• Provide EHS&S technical assistance and support as needed across all surgery networks & locations.
• Representing the company externally in industry forums.

Requirements

• Strong communicator who is credible and self-assured; strong technical skills with the ability to explain complex requirements in an easily understood manner; ability to negotiate with and influence key business leaders.
• Previously demonstrated supervisory/leadership experience is required.
• Demonstrated compliance orientation with a focus on end-to-end global/regional process management is required.
• Ability to work in a matrix, team-oriented environment.
• Highly developed interpersonal and cross-cultural skills.
• Strong written and oral English communication skills.
• Strong experience working in Microsoft Office.

Qualifications

• University/Bachelor’s Degree.
• 10-15 years of related experience.
• 8-10 years of people management experience.

Skills

• Corporate Experience.
• Developing Others.
• EHS Compliance.
• Emergency Planning.
• Environmental Protection.
• Facility Management.
• Fact-Based Decision Making.
• Inclusive Leadership.
• Leadership.
• People Performance Management.
• Quality Assurance (QA).
• Regulatory Compliance.
• Relationship Building.
• Risk Management.
• Safety-Oriented.
• Strategic Thinking.
• Technical Credibility.