Associate Director, MDS Regulatory Affairs Systems & Operations

Becton Dickinson; Franklin Lakes (NJ); Vor Ort; USD 150.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Becton Dickinson in the United States is seeking an experienced leader to own the MDS Regulatory Affairs (RA) systems, governance, and data. You will manage procedure frameworks, audits, and training programs while coordinating with RIM, PIM, EUDAMED, and UDI regulatory activities across platforms.

You will drive governance for regulatory data quality, change control, and lifecycle compliance, ensuring readiness for audits and regulatory submissions.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, engineering, regulatory affairs, quality, information systems, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years progressive experience in medical device Regulatory Affairs, Quality, regulatory operations, or regulated systems/process management.
• Demonstrated experience leading regulatory or quality processes across multiple functions, platforms, sites, or regions.
• Working knowledge of medical device QMS expectations, audit readiness, document control, change control, regulatory data, UDI, and lifecycle compliance.
• Experience with regulated system governance, business process ownership, requirements definition, validation or testing support, data quality, and user adoption.
• Strong written communication skills, including authoring procedures, work instructions, governance documents, training materials, and executive updates.

Aufgaben

• Provide overall leadership and accountability for MDS RA systems, processes, data, and enabling capabilities.
• Own the MDS RA procedure framework, including generation, alignment, approval, implementation, and harmonization.
• Serve as the MDS RA Audit Process Owner with evidence visibility and corrective-action oversight.
• Establish governance for MDS RA training, onboarding, and training-effectiveness evaluation.
• Provide governance for RIM/RIMSYS, PIM, EUDAMED, eIPRRA, PEGA RSM/DEO, RAIBot, and related reporting tools.
• Oversee regulatory-system data quality, workflow governance, system health, and metrics.
• Own MDS governance for Documentation of External Origin and regulatory intelligence.
• Provide governance for Global UDI and MDS product data across databases and jurisdictions.
• Oversee FDA annual establishment registration and device listing with escalation of gaps.
• Own end-to-end MDS Notification of Change framework and regulatory operations support.
• Provide MDS leadership for Global eUMDR transition with cross-functional alignment.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Governance

Regulatory data

Audit readiness

Change control

Documentation

Executive updates

Influence & decisions

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in life sciences, engineering, regulatory affairs, quality, information systems, or related

Master’s degree or regulatory certification (preferred)

Tools

PEGA RSM/DEO

PIM

EUDAMED

GUDID

Power BI

Jobbeschreibung

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Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership and accountability for MDS RA systems, operational processes, regulatory data, and enabling capabilities, establishing clear ownership, governance, decision rights, controls, and continuity coverage.
• Own the MDS RA procedure framework, including procedure generation, alignment, approval, implementation, maintenance, portfolio governance, review cadence, and harmonization across MDS platforms where appropriate.
• Serve as the MDS RA Audit Process Owner, maintaining a consistent audit-readiness and support model with clear evidence visibility, ownership, escalation, observation follow-up, and corrective-action oversight.
• Establish governance for MDS RA training and capability enablement, including role-based onboarding, job aids, reference materials, change enablement, completion monitoring, and training-effectiveness evaluation.
• Provide business process ownership and functional governance for RIM/RIMSYS, PIM, EUDAMED, eIPRRA, PEGA RSM/DEO, RAIBot, and related reporting tools, including system access, role governance, onboarding, support, segregation of duties, and continuity coverage.
• Oversee regulatory-system data quality, workflow governance, system health, reporting, performance metrics, issue escalation, and the responsible use of automation and digital capabilities.
• Own MDS governance for Documentation of External Origin, regulations, standards, and associated regulatory intelligence, ensuring applicable requirements are inventoried, assessed, assigned, tracked, escalated, and communicated through controlled processes.
• Provide governance for Global UDI and MDS product data, including PIM, Basic UDI-DI, EUDAMED, GUDID, Swissdamed, and other applicable jurisdictional databases, with appropriate controls for new-jurisdiction implementation, verification, remediation, and compliance tracking.
• Provide MDS oversight of FDA annual establishment registration and device listing, including accountability, record accuracy, completion visibility, supporting evidence, and escalation of identified gaps.
• Own the end-to-end MDS Notification of Change operating framework and regulatory operations support for change control, ensuring Where Registered reports and GTIN triggers provide reliable inputs to regulatory planning and implementation decisions and that required actions are tracked through closure.
• Provide MDS RA leadership for the Global eUMDR transition, including governance of readiness, dependencies, risks, decisions, implementation visibility, and SSOT data alignment across Platform RA and International RA, while working cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, and other applicable stakeholders to ensure inventory transition planning is aligned with regulatory approvals, manufacturing implementation, market requirements, and business readiness.

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences, engineering, regulatory affairs, quality, information systems, or a related discipline.
• 8 or more years progressive experience in medical device Regulatory Affairs, Quality, regulatory operations, or regulated systems/process management.
• Demonstrated experience leading regulatory or quality processes across multiple functions, platforms, sites, or regions.
• Working knowledge of medical device QMS expectations, audit readiness, document control, change control, regulatory data, UDI, and lifecycle compliance.
• Experience with regulated system governance, business process ownership, requirements definition, validation or testing support, data quality, and user adoption.
• Strong written communication skills, including authoring procedures, work instructions, governance documents, training materials, and executive updates.
• Ability to lead through influence, make risk-based decisions, manage competing priorities, and escalation issues clearly.

Preferred

• Master's degree or recognized regulatory/qualit y certification such as RAC, ASQ CQA, or ASQ CMQ/OE.
• Experience with RIM/RIMSYS, PIM, EUDAMED, GUDID or other UDI databases, PEGA-based workflows, eIPRRA, SharePoint, Power BI, or comparable regulated platforms.
• Experience supporting MDSAP, notified body, FDA, or internal quality audits.
• Experience applying Lean, Kaizen, structured problem solving, or comparable operational-excellence methods.
• Experience managing distributed teams, shared-service partners, vendors, or matrixed project resources.

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