Senior Global EHS Director

Additional Location(s): US-MN-Arden Hills; US-MN-Maple Grove

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.           

Lead the Future of Sustainability and Safety at Boston Scientific🌎

Are you ready to shape the future of environmental stewardship, employee well-being, and operational excellence? Boston Scientific is seeking a bold, strategic leader to join our Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) team—someone who’s not just passionate about compliance, but driven by purpose.

This is more than a role. It’s a movement.

Your Mission, Should You Choose to Lead It:

🌿 Carbon Neutrality by 2030 Be the architect of our transformation as we drive our major manufacturing and distribution centers toward carbon neutrality—setting a new standard for sustainable innovation.

♻️ Zero Waste Strategy Design and execute a global zero waste roadmap by 2030, embedding circularity into every layer of our operations.

🌍 Net Zero by 2050 Champion our long-term climate strategy, aligning cross-functional teams to achieve net zero emissions and redefine what’s possible in medtech.

💙 Elevate Employee Health & Wellness Lead initiatives that support the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of our global workforce—because thriving employees build thriving communities.

🛡️ Ensure Safety Without Compromise Create a culture where safety is second nature, and every employee feels protected, empowered, and proud to be part of our mission.

Who You Are:

• A visionary EHS leader with a track record of driving change across complex global organizations.
• A collaborator, innovator, and strategist who sees challenges as opportunities.
• A purpose-driven professional ready to leave a legacy of impact.

Why Boston Scientific?

Because here, your work saves lives—and your leadership shapes the future. You’ll join a company that’s committed to doing what’s right for patients, employees, and the planet. And you’ll be part of a team that’s not just talking about change—we’re making it happen.

Senior Global EHS Director

About the Role:
At Boston Scientific, the Senior Global EHS Director is a senior level position leading the development and implementation of strategies that ensure environmental protection, a safe working environment, facility safety, and employee health protection.  Creating harmony and mutual benefit between the business objectives and the EHS strategy is a core element of the position. Ability to understand the broader Company operations, outside EHS, is essential. 

The position requires strategic vision and hands-on implementation to build world-class EHS performance based on a strong global culture. They work closely with various functions, facilities and geographies to develop, implement and sustain EHS programs, policies and procedures that deliver the required high performance. Such strategies and programs are developed in harmony with the Companies business objectives and are aligned with its growth trajectory. The Snr. EHS Director is responsible for EHS performance at over 20 manufacturing sites and more that 120 commercial locations with a workforce of circa. 60,000. Working closely with a network of 200 EHS and Occupational Health professionals they deliver a vital two-way connection between senior leadership and site operations.

Your Responsibilities Include:
Strategic Leadership: 

• Partners with key senior leadership within BSC to ensure EHS strategies are aligned with business needs and EHS challenges are communicated upwards.
• Delivers strong leadership within the EHS community across all geographical regions establishing common purpose and focus on key performance.
• Exhibits the leadership qualities of trust, integrity, courage, clear communication and loyalty in all personal actions and ensures they are fostered in the broader EHS community.
• Ensures visible and impactful EHS leadership to the broader business stakeholders.
• Understands the leadership challenges of others to facilitate the necessary partnerships for effective EHS management.  
• Builds and develops an EHS staff that has the skills, competencies and abilities to meet the current and future needs of the Company at both a global and local level.

Strategy and AOP:

• Develops a Global EHS strategy that delivers the required EHS performance while supporting the company business needs.
• Ensure Global strategy is cascaded into all levels of the organization, is embedded in local strategies and monitored to ensure effective delivery.
• Create and maintain a process for local EHS issues and challenges to be communicated to Global EHS, enabling their inclusion in the global strategies where necessary.
• Achieve senior leadership agreement with the EHS strategy to drive successful outcomes.
• Envisions potential challenges 5 to 10 years out and builds protective strategies, processes and structures to protect the business and enable its continued unhindered development.

EHS Operational Excellence:

• Ensures compliance to the Global EHS policy and enhances implementation by providing core operational guidance for all the locations and regions.
• Ensures all manufacturing and Tier I Distribution locations are certified to ISO14001: Environmental Management Standard and the ISO45001: Health and Safety management standard.
• Identifies and ensures the development of Global Standards for key EHS programs, oversees their deployment and ensures verification of effectiveness.
• Delivers and maintains EHS digital platforms that enables global connectivity across all key programs, communicates real-time performance and enables early flagging of emerging challenges.
• Deliver impactful risk control and risk mitigation through structures risk analysis and problem-solving techniques.
• Ensures EHS risk-informed strategies are in place for key operational aspects, spanning Global Supply Chain, Commercial activities and Acquisitions & Integrations. 

Compliance Assurance:

• Ensures the Company is aware of, and compliant to, all EHS regulatory requirements at local, regional and global level by maintaining an effective compliance assurance program.
• Delivers surveillance of pending EHS regulations, globally, regionally and locally, which enables early response. Maintains the company EHS compliant while ensuring the Company business needs are advocated for.
• Represents the Company within relevant trade associations, professional bodies and industry groupings on EHS topics relevant to the Company.

Occupational Health:

• Oversees a Global Occupational Health service that focuses on employee health, medical accommodations, return to work and employee wellness; supporting both the employee and the business.
• Ensures occupational health support services are available for all employees globally and emergency advice contacts are in place.
• Ensure the development and upskilling of the global Occupational Health Nurses is supported to maintain required competencies as new requirements emerge.

Performance:

• Establishes key EHS performance targets for Environment, Health and Safety across the entire organization that drive meaningful continuous improvement while aligned to the needs and abilities of the business, both globally and locally.
• Maintains a live tracking and reporting process for delivery of the agreed EHS performance targets with escalation and reaction mechanisms where needed.
• Ensures positive performances are recognized and celebrated.
• Establishes a positive EHS performance culture where delivery of EHS goals, both within the function and across other functions, is the norm.

Acquisitions and Integrations:

• Ensures availability and provision of EHS supports to Acquisition and Integration teams for Due Diligence, EHS Criticality assessments, gap assessments, integration plans and resourcing planning.
• Ensures acquisition Integrations are supported and actively facilitated as they adapt to the new BSC culture, programs and operational requirements.

What We’re Looking For:
Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree required preferably within Environmental Sciences or in an engineering discipline.
• 10+years of EH&S experience to include standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the EH&S field.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience, ability to guide, coach, direct, and develop direct reports, and drive those practices throughout their organization.
• Experience in controlling the activities and budget of one or more functional areas, divisions, product groups, projects/programs and/or operations.
• Proven ability to work through other functions and personnel to deliver on EHS goals while supporting the business locally and globally.  
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with global business partners, building inclusive partnerships and valuing diversity across cultures and regions.
• Strong communication and presentation skills required, with ability to influence and drive new ideas at the executive level.
• Self-starter with high degree of latitude is required.
• This role requires travel domestic and international to BSC global locations.  

Preferred Qualifications: 

• MS or MBA preferred
• Global, multi-site experience is strongly preferred   
• Medical Devices industry experience

Requisition ID: 615322 

Minimum Salary: $ 172500 

Maximum Salary: $ 327800 

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see www.bscbenefitsconnect.com—will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.

Compensation for non-exempt (hourly), non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Compensation for exempt, non-sales roles may also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

For MA positions: It is unlawful to require or administer a lie detector test for employment. Violators are subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. 

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status.  Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment.  Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements.   As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance test requirements for safety-sensitive positions.  This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a prohibited substance test as a requirement.  The goal of the prohibited substance testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.