Senior Director, Healthcare Policy and Market Access

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.

BD's Peripheral Intervention (PI) business unit is a global leader in chronic disease care, with strong positions across vascular and oncology categories. 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.