Job Description
We are the people who give possibilities purpose
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it's no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us-from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year-to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Set strategic direction. Define and communicate a differentiated global platform strategy aligned with PI and BD enterprise priorities, market dynamics, customer needs, and long-term growth objectives.
- Deliver financial outcomes. Own the full P&L and resource-allocation agenda; drive sustainable revenue growth, margin expansion, disciplined expense management, cash generation, and return on investment.
- Shape the portfolio. Lead portfolio strategy and roadmaps across the product lifecycle, from early development and clinical and regulatory pathways through launch, lifecycle management, and end-of-life decisions. Balance near-term execution with long-term innovation and investment.
- Drive market and customer success. Anticipate current, future, and unmet customer needs; strengthen market position; enable value-based pricing and channel effectiveness; and deliver differentiated clinical, economic, and customer value globally.
- Lead innovation and business development. Set the platform innovation and business development agenda. Evaluate technologies, partnerships, acquisitions, and other investments with disciplined strategic and financial judgment.
- Champion transformation and operational excellence. Lead business transformation with clear outcomes and sustained execution. Apply BD Excellence to simplify work, improve productivity, solve problems at the root, and increase reliability.
- Ensure quality, compliance, and patient safety. Embed quality, regulatory rigor, ethical decision-making, and patient safety into strategy and execution; proactively identify and manage risk.
- Mobilize global, cross-functional leadership. Orchestrate across R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Medical, Clinical, Human Resources, regions, and countries to translate strategy into integrated plans and enterprise outcomes.
- Represent BD externally. Serve as a visible, credible leader with customers, key opinion leaders, regulators, partners, and industry forums.
Supervisory/Management Responsibilities
Leads the platform leadership team and directly manages marketing and other designated platform roles, including international employees as applicable. Designs the organization and talent strategy required to win; selects, coaches, develops, and retains high-impact leaders; strengthens succession;accelerates high-potential talent; and ensures accountability when expectations are not met. Provides enterprise leadership across matrixed functions and geographies where outcomes depend on influence and shared accountability.
Fiscal Responsibilities
Owns the platform P&L and associated operating budgets, forecasts, capital and portfolio investments, productivity commitments, and resource-allocation decisions. Applies strong financial and commercial judgment to drive growth, profitability, margin expansion, cash generation, and return on investment.
EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION:
- Education. Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, marketing, engineering, life sciences, or a related field required; MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.
- Leadership experience. Typically, 10+ years of progressive leadership experience across general management, marketing, sales, business development, or related functions within healthcare or medical technology.
- P&L leadership. Demonstrated success leading a large, complex business with direct accountability for growth, profitability, investment choices, and operating performance.
- Transformation and growth. Proven ability to deliver results through disruption, including portfolio shifts, restructuring, market expansion, or business-model evolution.
- Global leadership. Meaningful experience operating across geographies and navigating diverse customer, regulatory, reimbursement, healthcare, and market environments.
- Portfolio and innovation. Experience shaping portfolios, leading innovation pipelines, and making disciplined tradeoffs across organic growth, lifecycle investment, and business development.
- Commercial excellence. Deep experience in customer engagement, pricing, market development, reimbursement and healthcare economics, channel optimization, and enabling high-performing sales organizations.
- Quality and compliance. Experience embedding quality, regulatory discipline, and patient safety as enablers of sustainable business performance.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Enterprise thinking and orchestration. Op