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Job Description

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The Product Security Office (PSO) ensures product security risks for BD’s software-based products and solutions are managed well over the lifecycle as they make a difference for our patients and customers. In the PSO, we offer flexibility so you can successfully balance your work and personal responsibilities. We care about our associates and ensure we have servant leaders to help you grow your career, provide feedback and recognition, and empower you to show up every day as your authentic self. We are passionate about improving patient outcomes and enabling our R&D teams to create and maintain innovative solutions in a secure manner. Armed with a growth mindset and a desire to want to do more, learn more, impact more, you are in a great position to join us as a product security leader to help BD advance the world of health in ways you may never have imagined in your career.

The Director, Product Security is responsible for BD’s product security posture for the Dispensing platform in the Medication Management Solutions Business Unit. Reporting to the VP, R&D, Product Security, this individual will help the PSO provide guidance to successfully deliver best-in-class secure products, consistent with global regulatory requirements over the lifecycle.

This role works in close partnership with R&D, Enterprise Security, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, business leaders and functional authorities at corporate, regional, and business-unit (BU) levels to collaboratively advance strategic priorities and promote agile management of the opportunities within the business unit platform. They shall partner with the business unit platform leaders on business strategy and plans to drive security strategies into annual strategic plans, as appropriate.

The successful candidate will direct a team of product security resources while influencing and partnering with R&D teams to develop and implement product security plans over the full product lifecycle, including innovation, new product development and sustaining engineering that will meet the expectation of customers and product regulators (e.g., US CDRH, EU Notified Bodies, global MOHs etc.) This role will be hands on when required but is additionally responsible to develop strong leaders in their team with capabilities that align to the strategy and transform their respected platforms and business units to maintain outstanding performance. This includes the execution of product security program activities (e.g., risk assessment, awareness/training, incident response, pivotal initiatives, championing end of support on legacy products and external engagements).

Role Responsibilities:

Collaborate with all levels and geographies within the Dispensing platform, including senior executives, to advance the product security strategy and objectives within the portfolio.

• Leadership & Management: Build and lead a high performing team to manage multiple projects and programs, providing strategic planning and direction for the platform. Develop product security resources’ leadership skills. Lead and develop product security resources skills in program management and cross functional collaboration with stakeholders.
• Technology Leadership: Provide strategic guidance on architecture reviews, threat models, implementing security technologies, overseeing security risk assessments and capability maturity. Provide leadership and guidance to product security resources on critical Product Security issues, tactical alignment, and pivotal initiatives. Align business unit platform around common benchmarks and goals for BD’s enterpris