Product Stewardship and Sustainability Program Manager

at  Abbott Laboratories

At Abbott, diverse ideas, perspectives, and expertise allow us to create the life-changing solutions that help people live healthier lives. In 150 countries and with businesses spanning nutrition, diagnostics, medical devices, and branded generic pharmaceuticals, Abbott offers you enormous opportunities to explore your interests and help you achieve your career and personal goals.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Specialist Product Stewardship within our Abbott Rapid Diagnostics business located at Galway, Ireland or US, Lake Forst. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring compliance to product stewardship regulations worldwide, including, but not limited to REACH, RoHS, Conflict Minerals, and EPR.
Abbott Rapid Diagnostics (formerly Alere) is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for treatment and management of diseases and other conditions.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering with 7+ years of product support in one or more of the following functional areas: R&D, operations, technical support, quality or regulatory.
• Experience in product stewardship (e.g. REACH, RoHS) preferred, otherwise, experience with regulation interpretation and compliance is required.
• Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross division business unit model. This individual will need to work with R&D, operations, technical support, quality, regulatory, legal, engineering, and supply chain/procurement.
• Must possess data analytical, critical thinking, problem solving, and planning skills.
• Must use sound judgement and ability to build and maintain relationships with individuals and teams.
• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.
• Strong organizational and follow-up skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to travel approximately 40% to 50%, including internationally.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in product stewardship (e.g. REACH, RoHS)
• Experience with product bill of materials.
• Experience using Excel to analyze data to draw conclusions.
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• Help to implement an effective, written product stewardship program to ensure compliance with Abbott procedures and regulations.
• Assess applicable chemical registration requirements for chemicals/preparations prior to manufacture, importation or sourcing within a region.
• Assess parts, products and packaging for applicable chemical use requirements prior to sale and periodically thereafter.
• Collect part, packaging and product information to support regulations and ensure data is kept up-to-date.
• Coordinate data collection from suppliers and TPMs (e.g. product composition, Conflict Minerals form, compliance declarations).
• Contribute to the product stewardship strategic planning process that includes an annual evaluation of effectiveness and compliance of the program through self-assessment, risk assessments, product and regulatory changes.