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Regulatory Affairs
Location
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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.
Job Description
We are the makers of possible
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.
We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us.
Summary
The MedTech sector is undergoing rapid, disruptive change as breakthrough innovation accelerates, reimbursement models evolve, and global pressure intensifies for affordability, equitable access, and demonstrable clinical and economic value. In this increasingly complex policy and market access landscape, the need for bold, commercially anchored public affairs leadership has never been more critical. Aligned with the company’s BU centric operating model, the Healthcare Policy and Market Access function is positioned as a strategic business partner, translating policy and reimbursement opportunities and headwinds into actionable strategies, forward looking risk mitigation, and competitive advantage.
BD’s Peripheral Intervention (PI) business unit is a global leader in chronic disease care, with strong positions across vascular and oncology categories and a portfolio strategy focused on driving venous leadership, accelerating PAD continuum growth, and extending oncology leadership. The Senior Director, Healthcare Policy and Market Access will serve as the global quarterback responsible for developing and shaping policy, reimbursement, and access strategies that accelerate product adoption, expand patient and provider access, and strengthen alignment with regional partners. This leader will bring visionary, business-driven healthcare policy and market access expertise, working in close collaboration with PI business leadership to anticipate risk, seize opportunity, and ensure market access considerations are embedded early into portfolio, evidence, launch, and lifecycle planning. Leveraging the full strength of the company’s Public Affairs capabilities, this role will help position the PI portfolio for sustained competitive advantage in increasingly complex and competitive vascular, oncology, and interventional markets.
The position reports to the Vice President, Healthcare Policy, Market Access, with a formal dotted-line to the Worldwide President, BD Peripheral Intervention. The Senior Director will serve as a key member of the Public Affairs Senior Leadership Team and relevant Worldwide PI leadership forums, ensuring strategic alignment and strong business partnership across PI’s vascular and oncology priorities. Success in this role requires exceptional judgment, strategic acumen, adaptability, executive communication skills, and the ability to operate effectively in an agile, fast-moving, matrixed environment. The Senior Director will collaborate closely with partners across Global Marketing, Medical Affairs, HEOR, R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Legal, and the broader Public Affairs organization. As part of the coordination with Public Affairs colleagues, a close partnership with the International Affairs team will be important to ensure global strategies translate into region-specific execution, empowering regional and country teams to tailor approaches that reflect unique policy environments, reimbursement pathways, evidence requirements, and market dynamics.
Responsibilities
Business Integration: Align healthcare policy and market access initiatives with PI’s commercial goals, portfolio priorities, launch plans, and growth strategies. Serve as a strategic advisor to senior business leadership, translating policy, reimbursement, and access risks and opportunities into prioritized and actionable business strategies.
Strategic Healthcare Policy Leadership: Develop and deploy forward-looking healthcare policy strategies that anticipate global trends, regulatory shifts, reimbursement changes, and business imperatives impacting PI’s served and emerging markets. Deliver clear, actionable insights in partnership with the broader Public Affairs team to inform business decision-making and strengthen PI’s ability to compete and scale globally.
Market Access Advancement: Shape and execute global access strategies that address payer dynamics, pricing pressure, site-of-care shifts, evidence requirements, and evolving value frameworks. Ensure alignment with product lifecycle planning, clinical evidence generation, launch readiness, and commercial strategy. Partner with Market Access teams globally to maintain, expand, and accelerate access to PI technologies. Oversee the development of payer value tools, HTA materials, policy positions, and market-shaping strategies. Collaborate with Medical/Clinical Affairs, HEOR, Marketing, and R&D to guide evidence generation and sharpen economic value narratives that support adoption and category leadership.
Global-Local Coordination: Act as a strategic partner to commercial, marketing, medical, clinical, regulatory, and product development teams to embed policy and access considerations into go-to-market, evidence, and launch plans. Drive global consistency while enabling tailored regional execution through close collaboration with international and regional Public Affairs teams.
Stakeholder Engagement: Strengthen relationships with key external stakeholders, including customer associations, professional societies, payer and policy stakeholders, physician leaders, and patient advocacy organizations, to advance policy and access priorities. Enable strategic engagement across the physician, patient, and system-level stakeholders most critical to PI’s success.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in public affairs, encompassing public policy, market access, and/or government relations within a multinational healthcare sector; MedTech or medical device market access experience strongly preferred.
- Proven track record leading global policy shaping and payer engagement that deliver measurable business impact across global and U.S. markets.
- Deep expertise in U.S. healthcare policy and reimbursement, with a strong understanding of global health systems and access dynamics.
- Strategic and commercially minded leader with the ability to translate healthcare policy and access imperatives into business growth and innovation opportunities.
- Exceptional communicator and coalition-builder, skilled in navigating high-stakes policy environments and influencing diverse stakeholders.
- Demonstrated success in building and developing high-performing, collaborative teams across global and U.S. public affairs functions.
- Bachelor’s degree is required; degree in public policy, public health or related field is preferred.
- English fluency required; additional languages are an asset.
Why Join Us?
A career at BD means being part of a team that values your opinions and contributions and that encourages you to bring your authentic self to work. It’s also a place where we help each other be great, we do what’s right, we hold each other accountable, and learn and improve every day.
You will learn and work alongside inspirational leaders and colleagues who are equally passionate and committed to fostering an inclusive, growth-centered, and rewarding culture. You will have the opportunity to help shape the trajectory of BD while leaving a legacy at the same time. And through the organization’s investment in BD University, you will continually level up your tech skills and expertise.
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 health. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive. And find satisfaction in doing your part to make the world a better place.
Primary Work Location
USA DC - Washington, DC
Additional Locations
USA AZ - Tempe Headquarters
Work Shift
At BD, we reward, support and develop our associates through our comprehensive Total Rewards program. We are committed to attracting and retaining high quality talent by providing reward and recognition opportunities that promote a performance-based culture, as well as a competitive package of compensation and benefits programs.
Benefits may include:
Health & Well-being: Medical, dental, vision, health savings and flexible spending accounts, life and disability insurance, wellness resources, mental health support, and disease management programs.
Retirement & Financial Well-being: 401(k), deferred compensation programs, financial counseling, DailyPay, and educational savings resources.
Work-Life Balance & Family Support: Paid time off, company holidays, educational assistance, parental leave, adoption assistance, backup care, caregiving support, employee assistance programs, commuter benefits, pet insurance, legal services, and associate discount programs.
Leave Programs: Bereavement, military, personal, family and medical leave, and jury duty leave.
Additional details regarding benefits and well-being programs can be found in Our Commitment to You.
Our salary or hourly rate ranges reward associates fairly and competitively. We regularly review these ranges and factors, such as location, contribute to the range displayed.
Our pay is based on the role and the necessary skills and education to perform it successfully. The salary or hourly rate offered is determined by the role's specific requirements, including any applicable step rate pay system at the work location. Salary or hourly pay ranges are influenced by labor laws and Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) requirements applicable to the work location which may also affect the workplace arrangement of the role.
Salary Range Information
$220,300.00 - $352,500.00 USD Annual
Becton, Dickinson, and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
Job ID
R-558943
Category
Regulatory Affairs
Location
Multiple Locations
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.
Job Description
We are the makers of possible
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.
We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us.
Summary
The MedTech sector is undergoing rapid, disruptive change as breakthrough innovation accelerates, reimbursement models evolve, and global pressure intensifies for affordability, equitable access, and demonstrable clinical and economic value. In this increasingly complex policy and market access landscape, the need for bold, commercially anchored public affairs leadership has never been more critical. Aligned with the company’s BU centric operating model, the Healthcare Policy and Market Access function is positioned as a strategic business partner, translating policy and reimbursement opportunities and headwinds into actionable strategies, forward looking risk mitigation, and competitive advantage.
BD’s Peripheral Intervention (PI) business unit is a global leader in chronic disease care, with strong positions across vascular and oncology categories and a portfolio strategy focused on driving venous leadership, accelerating PAD continuum growth, and extending oncology leadership. The Senior Director, Healthcare Policy and Market Access will serve as the global quarterback responsible for developing and shaping policy, reimbursement, and access strategies that accelerate product adoption, expand patient and provider access, and strengthen alignment with regional partners. This leader will bring visionary, business-driven healthcare policy and market access expertise, working in close collaboration with PI business leadership to anticipate risk, seize opportunity, and ensure market access considerations are embedded early into portfolio, evidence, launch, and lifecycle planning. Leveraging the full strength of the company’s Public Affairs capabilities, this role will help position the PI portfolio for sustained competitive advantage in increasingly complex and competitive vascular, oncology, and interventional markets.
The position reports to the Vice President, Healthcare Policy, Market Access, with a formal dotted-line to the Worldwide President, BD Peripheral Intervention. The Senior Director will serve as a key member of the Public Affairs Senior Leadership Team and relevant Worldwide PI leadership forums, ensuring strategic alignment and strong business partnership across PI’s vascular and oncology priorities. Success in this role requires exceptional judgment, strategic acumen, adaptability, executive communication skills, and the ability to operate effectively in an agile, fast-moving, matrixed environment. The Senior Director will collaborate closely with partners across Global Marketing, Medical Affairs, HEOR, R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Legal, and the broader Public Affairs organization. As part of the coordination with Public Affairs colleagues, a close partnership with the International Affairs team will be important to ensure global strategies translate into region-specific execution, empowering regional and country teams to tailor approaches that reflect unique policy environments, reimbursement pathways, evidence requirements, and market dynamics.
Responsibilities
Business Integration: Align healthcare policy and market access initiatives with PI’s commercial goals, portfolio priorities, launch plans, and growth strategies. Serve as a strategic advisor to senior business leadership, translating policy, reimbursement, and access risks and opportunities into prioritized and actionable business strategies.
Strategic Healthcare Policy Leadership: Develop and deploy forward-looking healthcare policy strategies that anticipate global trends, regulatory shifts, reimbursement changes, and business imperatives impacting PI’s served and emerging markets. Deliver clear, actionable insights in partnership with the broader Public Affairs team to inform business decision-making and strengthen PI’s ability to compete and scale globally.
Market Access Advancement: Shape and execute global access strategies that address payer dynamics, pricing pressure, site-of-care shifts, evidence requirements, and evolving value frameworks. Ensure alignment with product lifecycle planning, clinical evidence generation, launch readiness, and commercial strategy. Partner with Market Access teams globally to maintain, expand, and accelerate access to PI technologies. Oversee the development of payer value tools, HTA materials, policy positions, and market-shaping strategies. Collaborate with Medical/Clinical Affairs, HEOR, Marketing, and R&D to guide evidence generation and sharpen economic value narratives that support adoption and category leadership.
Global-Local Coordination: Act as a strategic partner to commercial, marketing, medical, clinical, regulatory, and product development teams to embed policy and access considerations into go-to-market, evidence, and launch plans. Drive global consistency while enabling tailored regional execution through close collaboration with international and regional Public Affairs teams.
Stakeholder Engagement: Strengthen relationships with key external stakeholders, including customer associations, professional societies, payer and policy stakeholders, physician leaders, and patient advocacy organizations, to advance policy and access priorities. Enable strategic engagement across the physician, patient, and system-level stakeholders most critical to PI’s success.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in public affairs, encompassing public policy, market access, and/or government relations within a multinational healthcare sector; MedTech or medical device market access experience strongly preferred.
- Proven track record leading global policy shaping and payer engagement that deliver measurable business impact across global and U.S. markets.
- Deep expertise in U.S. healthcare policy and reimbursement, with a strong understanding of global health systems and access dynamics.
- Strategic and commercially minded leader with the ability to translate healthcare policy and access imperatives into business growth and innovation opportunities.
- Exceptional communicator and coalition-builder, skilled in navigating high-stakes policy environments and influencing diverse stakeholders.
- Demonstrated success in building and developing high-performing, collaborative teams across global and U.S. public affairs functions.
- Bachelor’s degree is required; degree in public policy, public health or related field is preferred.
- English fluency required; additional languages are an asset.
Why Join Us?
A career at BD means being part of a team that values your opinions and contributions and that encourages you to bring your authentic self to work. It’s also a place where we help each other be great, we do what’s right, we hold each other accountable, and learn and improve every day.
You will learn and work alongside inspirational leaders and colleagues who are equally passionate and committed to fostering an inclusive, growth-centered, and rewarding culture. You will have the opportunity to help shape the trajectory of BD while leaving a legacy at the same time. And through the organization’s investment in BD University, you will continually level up your tech skills and expertise.
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 health. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive. And find satisfaction in doing your part to make the world a better place.
Primary Work Location
USA DC - Washington, DC
Additional Locations
USA AZ - Tempe Headquarters
Work Shift
At BD, we reward, support and develop our associates through our comprehensive Total Rewards program. We are committed to attracting and retaining high quality talent by providing reward and recognition opportunities that promote a performance-based culture, as well as a competitive package of compensation and benefits programs.
Benefits may include:
Health & Well-being: Medical, dental, vision, health savings and flexible spending accounts, life and disability insurance, wellness resources, mental health support, and disease management programs.
Retirement & Financial Well-being: 401(k), deferred compensation programs, financial counseling, DailyPay, and educational savings resources.
Work-Life Balance & Family Support: Paid time off, company holidays, educational assistance, parental leave, adoption assistance, backup care, caregiving support, employee assistance programs, commuter benefits, pet insurance, legal services, and associate discount programs.
Leave Programs: Bereavement, military, personal, family and medical leave, and jury duty leave.
Additional details regarding benefits and well-being programs can be found in Our Commitment to You.
Our salary or hourly rate ranges reward associates fairly and competitively. We regularly review these ranges and factors, such as location, contribute to the range displayed.
Our pay is based on the role and the necessary skills and education to perform it successfully. The salary or hourly rate offered is determined by the role's specific requirements, including any applicable step rate pay system at the work location. Salary or hourly pay ranges are influenced by labor laws and Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) requirements applicable to the work location which may also affect the workplace arrangement of the role.
Salary Range Information
$220,300.00 - $352,500.00 USD Annual
Becton, Dickinson, and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
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Map your credentials to the right SOC code
Policy Director roles are typically classified under SOC 11-1011 or 11-9199. Pull the O*NET occupation profile for your target code and confirm your degree field and job duties align before your employer files the LCA, since a mismatch triggers USCIS scrutiny on specialty occupation.
Target employers with active federal contracts
Federal contractors and grantees regularly sponsor Policy Directors because their positions carry documented degree requirements tied to regulatory compliance work. These employers have established HR processes for H-1B filings and are less likely to withdraw sponsorship mid-process over unfamiliarity.
Find verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Search Migrate Mate to identify organizations with verified H-1B LCA filing history for policy and government affairs roles. This lets you focus your applications on employers who have already navigated the specialty occupation question for comparable positions.
Get the LCA worksite certified before relocating
Each office location where you'll work needs its own certified LCA from DOL. If your role involves split time between a D.C. headquarters and a state-level office, confirm both worksites appear on the LCA before your start date, not after.
Document your policy specialization in writing before interviews
USCIS evaluates whether the specific duties require a directly related bachelor's degree, not just any degree. Prepare a written duties memo that ties each core responsibility, such as regulatory analysis or legislative drafting, to your academic discipline before your employer drafts the I-129.
Account for the full petition timeline in your offer negotiation
If you're already in H-1B status with another employer, your new employer must file a petition before your last day. Build at least 60 days of lead time into your start date negotiation so USCIS has adequate time to process under standard service, without premium processing costs falling on you.
H-1B Visa Policy Director: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Policy Director role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Policy Director positions typically qualify as specialty occupations because they require a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field such as public policy, law, political science, or economics. The key is that the employer's job description must tie core duties, like regulatory analysis, legislative strategy, or compliance oversight, to that specific degree requirement. Roles framed as general management without degree-specific duties can face USCIS challenges.
Which employers commonly sponsor H-1B visas for Policy Director roles?
Think tanks, advocacy organizations, federal contractors, healthcare systems, financial institutions, and large technology companies with government affairs functions are among the most active sponsors. These employers file LCAs regularly for senior policy roles because the positions carry documented educational requirements. Migrate Mate shows you which organizations have verified LCA filing history for policy and government affairs titles, so you can target your search efficiently.
How does the prevailing wage requirement affect Policy Director sponsorship?
Your employer must certify through the LCA that your offered wage meets or exceeds the DOL prevailing wage for your SOC code at your specific worksite location. Policy Director wages vary significantly by metro area and industry sector. You can verify the applicable wage level for your location using the OFLC Wage Search before entering salary negotiations, which helps you understand what a compliant offer looks like.
Can my employer sponsor me for a Policy Director role if I'm currently on OPT or a different visa status?
Yes. Your employer files an I-129 petition with USCIS to change or extend your status to H-1B. If you're on OPT and the H-1B cap applies, the selection rules have changed recently, so confirm current procedures directly with USCIS. For cap-exempt employers such as universities or nonprofits affiliated with higher education, petitions can be filed at any time without cap constraints, which is a meaningful advantage for policy professionals targeting those sectors.
What happens to my H-1B status if my Policy Director role changes scope or location?
Material changes to your duties or a move to a new worksite require your employer to file an amended I-129 petition and obtain a new certified LCA for the updated worksite before the change takes effect. A promotion that shifts your policy focus from state-level advocacy to federal regulatory work could qualify as a material change. H-1B status is granted in three-year increments and can be extended to a six-year maximum, so timing amendments against your status expiration matters.