Director, Global Program Management Healthcare

Company Description

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials. The company’s products and solutions, which are used in nearly every major industry, include pressure-sensitive materials for labels and graphic applications; tapes and other bonding solutions for industrial, medical, and retail applications; tags, labels, and embellishments for apparel; and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions serving retail apparel and other markets. The company employs approximately 36,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Reported sales in 2021 were $8.4 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com. 

Avery Dennison is an equal-opportunity employer.

About Avery Dennison Smartrac

Built on a legacy of innovation and materials science, Avery Dennison Smartrac has embarked on a new era of opportunity - for every item to have a unique digital identity. Our technology has the capability to enable a world of connectivity - connecting both products and people. A world where the “who, what, and where” of every product become points of irrefutable fact and absolute visibility. Traceability, transparency, provenance, authenticity, raw material tracing, real-time inventory, and personalization are guaranteed for businesses and consumers throughout the entire supply chain, cradle to cradle. At its most simplest, we are a leading Fortune 500 company making the Internet of Things a positive, transformative, worldwide reality for all of us. And we want you to be part of the journey!

Job Description

Position Overview: 

The Director, Global Program Management for Healthcare will be responsible for the management of the healthcare strategic growth initiatives and identifying/developing the capabilities required for ADS to excel in the healthcare/pharamceutical segment. The capabilities to be evaluated and developed span from quality systems to regulatory expertise to operational requirements to technology development and acquisition, This position will have deep knowledge of the industry requirements and expectations for suppliers in the healthcare space. This position will partner closely with the healthcare MDM/BDMs, Innovation resources, and Quality and Operations teams.

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions:

• Oversee the organization and execution of a portfolio of inter-related, strategic initiatives involving cross-functional teams in multiple geographic sites.
• Complete full assessment of current project portfolio and identify capabilities required to execute with excellence. Work cross functionally to plan and build necessary capabilities. Support teams on execution.
• Assess priority use cases and applications within the healthcare segment to determine additional capabilities required and work cross functionally to build out a roadmap to address.
• Work with Operations, Quality, and Platform teams to ensure capabilities are in place to support scale up of new products.
• Work with Market Development Managers to support discussions with potential customers and solution partners and to define scope of partnerships 
• Establish healthcare priorities and align with VP, healthcare on project budgets, resources, and timelines to deliver on strategic plans.
• Coordinate and manage resources to execute against project plans, building and reinforcing a project-based, matrix organizational structure.
• Ensure project teams are established with the necessary skills and abilities, identify and fill in gaps with new resources, contractors, or vendors.
• Promote and facilitate cross-functional communications with particular regard to project delivery and product development with all areas of the organization, subject matter experts, and customers.
• Build organizational and technical capabilities while executing projects.
• Ability to quickly identify and mitigate high risk areas.
• Negotiate and balance decisions and priorities across the needs of several functional departments and willingness to make tough decisions.  Make timely decisions in the face of risk and uncertainty.
• Support healthcare MDM/BDM team to ensure projects have strong business case and appropriate project selection criteria are being met.
• Manage Project Managers and matrix teams.
• Other tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in an Engineering or business discipline.  Master’s in Engineering or other technical discipline or MBA preferred.
• 5-years director product management job experience in the  medical device or pharmaceutical experience.  
• Project management experie