Director, Partial & Primary Knees

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We are searching for the best talent to join our Orthopaedics team as a Director, Partial and Primary Knees to be located in Palm Beach Gardens, FL or Warsaw, IN.

Purpose and Key Responsibilities:

• Lead downstream marketing activities for the Partial & Primary Knee portfolio, including NPI execution, lifecycle management of Focus and Legacy products, and alignment to overall business performance objectives.
• Drive commercialization strategy and execution, inclusive of forecasting alignment, pricing frameworks, and integration with our Solutions in Motion omnichannel campaigns.
• Serve as the primary liaison to the United States market, enabling successful product launches and commercialization across priority strategic focuses.  Shaping the strategy and translating that to measurable execution.
• Support achievement of United States revenue and performance targets, ensuring alignment to inventory, demand planning, and financial objectives.
• Directing a team to focus on specific strategies and enabling them to execute programs that support sales and field initiatives to successfully achieve financial metrics.
• Contribute to organizational effectiveness by supporting talent development and capability building within Global Growth Marketing (GGM).

Leadership, Strategy & Organizational Responsibilities:

• Directs managers and/or senior individual contributors in a matrixed environment, with accountability for talent development through ongoing coaching, feedback, and career planning.
• Develops, analyzes, and advances key objectives aligned to the vision and strategy of the Vice President of Knees partnering cross-functionally (e.g., finance, medical, R&D, sales, and global/regional teams) to effectively shape and execute brand plans.
• Builds and sustains mutually beneficial relationships with key customers to understand business needs and translate insights into actionable growth opportunities.
• Communicates GGM strategies and initiatives across teams and drives execution into the field for success.
• Partners across functions to help establish and implement processes and ways of working that enable effective execution of marketing strategies and campaigns.
• Leads selection and management of external vendors and strategic partners to support GGM priorities, including contributions to pipeline direction, business planning, and business development opportunities.
• Advances customer acquisition and growth by leveraging innovation and identifying new opportunities to strengthen marketing impact.
• Ensures alignment to GGM operating principles and delivers results against key performance indicators.
• Guides the creative and strategic direction of marketing initiatives to ensure efficient use of resources and strong integration of customer insights into product and commercialization strategies.
• Oversees operational aspects of the team, including budget management, performance, and compliance, and supports workforce and succession planning to meet evolving business needs.
• Fosters strategic relationships to help drive focus and execution in the field across key customers and internal/external stakeholders.

 Qualifications / Requirements:

• A minimum of a BA/BS degree or equivalent is required; Business/Marketing/Finance degree preferred.
• A minimum of 8+ years experience in healthcare / medical device marketing, sales, finance, or other commercial experience is required.
• Orthopaedic / large joints experience preferred.
• Strong financial acumen — ability to build and explain ROI models, budgets, and financing impacts.
• Proven program and change management skills — able to design and run onboarding/adoption programs and govern handoffs across teams.
• Demonstrated leadership including the ability to lead and manage through change is required.
• Track record of success working within a matrixed organizational environment; enterprise mindset decision-making is required
• Excellent understanding of customer, business intelligence and industry trends is required
• Excellent listening, written, and oral communications skills; excellent organizational skills along with the ability to make sales presentations with positive results is required.
• Ability to manage stakeholders; which includes communicating, influencing, and providing comprehensive solutions is required.
• Strong problem-solving, organizational, and project management skills, including the ability to design, structure, and lead projects is required.
• Up to 40% travel will be required for this role.

About Orthopaedics

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. 

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Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

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