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Job Function:

Marketing

Job Sub Function:

Strategic Marketing

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

US052 OH Cincinnati - 4545 Creek Rd

Job Description:

Senior Marketing Manager, Instruments and Accessories, OTTAVA™

About MedTech Surgery

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 surgery? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. Your contributions will help effectively treat some of the world’s most prevalent conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Patients are waiting.

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

Johnson & Johnson MedTech is recruiting for a Senior Marketing Manager, Global Strategic Marketing, OTTAVA Instruments and Accessories (I&A) , within our MedTech Surgery organization. The location for this position is Cincinnati, OH.

The OTTAVA Senior Marketing Manager, I&A reports to the OTTAVA Marketing Director, I&A. This role will serve as the Marketing lead on multiple I&A project teams and will own Marketing deliverables through new product development stage-gates through launch excellence. The role will partner across the OTTAVA Marketing team to help build and deliver Ethicon’s multi-quadrant surgical robotics system to markets, globally. Key activities include learning plans including market research and market / competitive intel, building the business case with value propositions, working with development and cross functional partners to achieve milestones, and partnering with regional leads to implement product launches worldwide in support of the OTTAVA System global launch.

Major Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Serve as Marketing lead on I&A new product development cross functional teams to progress projects through the pipelines and develop the commercial strategy.

• Lead the development of key business deliverables for I&A projects including target product profile, segmentation / targeting / positioning, pricing, evidence generation strategy, messaging, promotion, customer engagement strategy, communication plans.

• Partner across OTTAVA GSM team on I&A deliverables when projects have connections across hardware and digital.

• Ensure thorough understanding of the I&A and robotics market, competitive offerings for related instrument categories and portfolio working closely with the competitive and strategic insights teams.

• Ensure comprehensive learning plan and execution on I&A projects to include ensuring features and functionality exceed customer expectations and support the value proposition. Working with regional leads to share learnings and insights.

• Drive collaboration with cross functional project teams including R&D, Supply Chain, Regulatory, Human Factors & Experience Design, Pre-clinical, Clinical, and Medical (PCM), Labeling / Packaging, Business Development, and Regional Marketing Leads.

• Deliver launch excellence deliverables for projects and partner across the organization to launch I&A projects globally as part of overall OTTAVA system launch.

• Support execution of marketing and commercial launch related activities for the OTTAVA System as needed

Qualifications

Education:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree is required, MBA preferred

Required Skills and Experience:

• Minimum of 8+ years of progressive business experience

• Outstanding analytics skills and ability to understand technically complex concepts

• Ability to develop, lead, and cultivate customer relationships

• Ability to understand and navigate the complexities of operating in a matrix global framework is required including working with cross functional partners and across global markets.

• Critical thinking ability to drive business results with proven ability to influence without direct authority

• Intellectual curiosity and learning agility are key for this role.

• Strong communication and verbal and written skills

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Marketing and / or sales experience in medical devices, or healthcare

• Experience in both NPD and downstream / brand / customer-facing roles in region

• Launch excellence marketing experience

• Preference for experience working in a development environment defining aspects of a market, product solution and / or target user including the ability to understand and define customer needs and feedback and articulate to other stakeholders, including the engineering and marketing organizations.

Other:

• This position is based in Cincinnati, OH. and may require up to 30% travel (international and domestic)

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.

Johnson and Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.