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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.
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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Which companies sponsor visas for policy directors in Washington DC?
Washington DC's policy director sponsorship activity is concentrated among international development organizations such as the World Bank and IMF, global consulting firms, large nonprofits, and policy-focused think tanks. Federal contractors headquartered in the DC metro area, including firms serving defense, health, and economic policy agencies, also file regularly for senior policy roles requiring specialized expertise.
Which visa types realistically fit policy director roles in Washington DC?
Policy director roles typically qualify as specialty occupations requiring a directly related bachelor's degree or higher, making the H-1B visa the most common path. Nationals of Chile and Singapore may use the H-1B1 visa, while Australian nationals can pursue the E-3 visa. Candidates already on F-1 OPT can work for a sponsoring employer while a petition is pending. EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship is also common at established organizations.
How to find policy director visa sponsorship jobs in Washington DC?
Migrate Mate lists Washington DC employers with verified visa sponsorship history for policy roles, so you can focus on organizations that have demonstrated willingness to sponsor rather than applying speculatively. Given DC's concentration of think tanks, international bodies, and federal contractors, filtering specifically by policy director roles in the district helps surface the most relevant sponsoring employers.
Which parts of Washington DC have the most policy director sponsorship jobs?
Most policy director sponsorship activity in DC is concentrated in a few distinct areas: the K Street corridor for lobbying and consulting firms, Dupont Circle for major think tanks and advocacy organizations, and the Capitol Hill area for policy-adjacent nonprofits and research institutes. The downtown core near Pennsylvania Avenue also hosts international organizations and federal contractors that sponsor senior policy professionals.
Are there any DC-specific considerations for international policy directors seeking visa sponsorship?
Washington DC's policy sector draws heavily from graduate programs at Georgetown, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins SAIS, and American University, creating strong institutional pipelines. Many employers here are nonprofits or international organizations, some of which use J-1 visa exchange visitor programs in addition to H-1B sponsorship. Policy directors with expertise in international development, health policy, or regulatory affairs tend to have the broadest sponsorship opportunities in this market.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored policy director jobs in Washington DC?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.