Product Labeling Supervisor

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

The Product Labeling Supervisor is responsible for leading the product labeling team, executing labeling projects, and ensuring label management follows all applicable policies and procedures.  In this role you will provide project leadership and orchestration of labeling development activities interfacing with Marketing, R&D, Regulatory, Technical Communications, Legal, Package Engineering and site Operations.

 

This role requires working onsite in our Conroe Texas location.

What You Will do as a Product Labeling Supervisor

• Provides direction on label management processes and project prioritization and execution
• Creates and modifies labeling for product instruction for use (IFU) documents, labels, cartons and other related materials ensuring that they meet all medical, legal, and regulatory requirements for medical devices following the established design format, labeling style guidelines and branding guidelines.
• Leads activities for new and updated labels from creation, through First Article Inspection (FAI) through the change control process.
• Monitors changes in labeling regulations in the US and/or abroad and ensures that labeling meets all medical, legal, and regulatory requirements
• Confers with label package change initiators to assess business needs and to determine their requirements to help solve problems in an innovative, cost effective and timely manner
• Ensures all requested projects have appropriate labeling resources assigned to enable on-time completion of project goals
• Contributes to the development of solutions and best practices for labeling initiatives, including recommending activities involving legacy systems, process improvement, country-specific requirements, labeling standards and regulations, and labeling stakeholders
• Communicates with vendors regarding ongoing labeling operations
• Works with outside vendors on content translations for labels and IFUs
• Controls and manages numerous product labeling project tasks that culminate in release to production via the engineering change process

The Experience, Skills and Abilities Needed

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree in science or communication related field.
• In lieu of a degree, high school diploma or GED and 8 years of experience.

• Product Labeling and project management experience.
• Minimum of 3 years product labeling experience and project management experience for medical device or other regulated industry.
• Proficiency with common content management tools and systems.
• Experience with document management systems (PLM). 
• Knowledge of medical device regulations and standards relating to labeling and regulated documentation.

 

Preferred: 

• Technical writing proficiency is highly desirable with emphasis on medical device product labeling development.
• Experience in working within a regulated industry.
• Software experience with Propel PLM, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, preferred
• Label Matrix, Nice Label, Bartender, strongly preferred  

 

Other:

• Self-motivated and able to work independently with limited supervision, making informed decisions based on analysis
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• High level of detailed accuracy

What STERIS Offers

We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, wellbeing, and financial future.

 

Here is just a brief overview of what we offer:

• Market Competitive pay
• Extensive Paid Time Off and added Holidays
• Excellent Healthcare, Dental and Vision benefits
• Long- and Short-Term Disability coverage
• 401(k) with a company match
• Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Additional add- on benefits / discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement and continuing education programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career

 

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Pay range for this opportunity is $90,000 - $115,000. This position is eligible for bonus participation.

 

Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed.  Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including b