Vice President / General Manager, Vascular

BD; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

BD, a leading global medical technology company, seeks a Platform Leadership executive to shape the portfolio strategy and drive end-to-end lifecycle management. You will own the P&L, allocate resources, and steer growth, margin expansion, and investments across regions.

You will orchestrate R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, and commercial functions to deliver differentiated value, pricing strategies, and market impact while championing patient safety and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare or medical technology.
• Proven P&L leadership with growth, profitability and investments oversight.
• Global leadership experience across geographies and regulatory environments.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic direction and communicate a differentiated global platform strategy.
• Own full P&L and drive revenue growth, margins, and ROI.
• Lead portfolio strategy and roadmaps across the product lifecycle.
• Anticipate customer needs and enable value-based pricing and channels.
• Guide platform innovation, partnerships, and business development.
• Lead transformation and BD Excellence to improve productivity and reliability.
• Embed quality, regulatory rigor, and patient safety in strategy and execution.
• Mobilize global cross-functional leadership to translate strategy into plans.
• Represent BD externally to customers, regulators and industry forums.

Skills

Enterprise thinking

Strategic orientation

Financial fluency

Customer & market insight

Portfolio & pricing

Influence & communication

Change & people leadership

Matrix leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, marketing, engineering, life sciences, or related field

MBA or relevant advanced degree

Job description

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. Operates with accountability for BD as a whole, connects decisions across functions and geographies, and creates clarity so the full system moves in the same direction.
• Strategic and results orientation. Anticipates market shifts, makes focused choices, translates strategy into measurable outcomes, and maintains rigor and urgency in execution.
• Financial fluency. Strong command of commercial levers, business cases, capital allocation, margin expansion, forecasting, and performance management.
• Customer and market insight. Understands vascular disease states, relevant anatomy and clinical workflows, customers, competitors, and evolving healthcare systems; anticipates unmet needs and translates insight into differentiated value.
• Portfolio, pricing, and digital savvy. Shapes portfolio evolution, applies value-based pricing and investment discipline, and uses data, digital capabilities, and MedTech innovation to improve decisions and customer value.
• Influence and communication. Builds coalitions, communicates complex matters succinctly, and inspires confidence with senior leaders, associates, customers, and external stakeholders.
• Change and people leadership. Guides organizations through transformation with transparency and follow-through; builds inclusive, high-performing teams; develops leaders; and addresses performance gaps directly and fairly.
• Matrix leadership and judgment. Establishes credibility quickly, works effectively across functions and geographies, prioritizes in real time, and makes sound decisions in high-stakes and ambiguous situations.

Why Join Us?

To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.

We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.

To learn more about BD visit https://bd.com/careers.

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