Director, Product Stewardship & Regulatory Programs (Healthcare)

Location: Deerfield, Illinois, United States; hybrid workplace with a required minimum number of onsite days per week.

Estimated base salary: $176,000–$242,000 annually, with possible discretionary bonuses, commission, and/or long-term incentives.

Company

hirify.global develops healthcare products and solutions focused on saving and sustaining lives.

What you will do

• Lead global monitoring and business impact assessments for environmental, product, packaging, chemical, circular economy, and social regulations.
• Execute enterprise product stewardship programs covering chemicals compliance, packaging, extended producer responsibility, product environmental requirements, and human rights due diligence.
• Build regulatory roadmaps, governance structures, milestones, reporting mechanisms, and accountability frameworks.
• Partner with R&D, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, Commercial, and business segment teams.
• Translate regulatory trends into sustainable product, packaging, material, portfolio, and market opportunities.
• Support customer tenders, audits, questionnaires, product inquiries, and sustainability disclosures.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Regulatory Affairs, Life Sciences, Business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in product stewardship, regulatory affairs, environmental compliance, product compliance, quality systems, or related disciplines.
• Experience leading complex global compliance or regulatory implementation programs.
• Strong understanding of environmental and social regulations affecting products, packaging, chemicals, materials, and supply chains.
• Exceptional project management, execution, cross-functional leadership, and organizational accountability skills.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate regulatory developments into practical business actions.

Nice to have

• Medical device, pharmaceutical, healthcare, or other highly regulated industry experience.
• Experience with REACH, RoHS, PFAS, PPWR, EPR, conflict minerals, and human rights due diligence requirements.
• PMP certification or equivalent project management experience.
• Experience supporting customer sustainability requests, tenders, or product-level regulatory disclosures.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven environment focused on saving and sustaining lives.
• Flexible workplace policy combining onsite collaboration with workplace flexibility.
• US medical and dental coverage beginning on day one, plus life, disability, and accident insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employee contributions and company matching, employee stock purchase plan, and flexible spending accounts.
• Paid holidays, 20–35 days of paid time off based on tenure, family and medical leave, and paid parental leave.