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Job Description
Principal Specialist Product Stewardship role at Abbott Rapid Diagnostics, responsible for ensuring compliance to product stewardship regulations worldwide.
Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott's Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing.
Responsibilities
- Implement an effective product stewardship program to ensure compliance with Abbott procedures and regulations.
- Assess 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, compliance declarations).
- Contribute to the product stewardship strategic planning process through self-assessment, risk assessments, product and regulatory changes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in science or engineering with 7+ years of product support experience in R&D, operations, technical support, quality or regulatory.
- Experience in product stewardship (e.g. REACH, RoHS) or regulation interpretation and compliance.
- Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross division business unit model.
- Data analytical, critical thinking, problem solving, and planning skills.
- 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.
Abbott is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.