Director- Professional Relations Group

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Job Function:

Marketing

Job Sub Function:

Strategic Marketing

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America, West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Job Description:

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

DePuy Synthes is recruiting for a Director – Professional Relations Group, located in Warsaw, IN, or Palm Beach Gardens, FL. This position will require 20-40% travel.

The DePuy Synthes Director – Professional Relations Group will lead a team to develop and manage a strategic framework for how we engage with customers across marketing, R&D, clinical, and other cross-functional partners to support business strategic imperatives. The role facilitates insight generation from key customers, leads thought leader engagements, and coordinates company contact with thought leaders across development, marketing, professional education, health economic & market access, clinical, and other functions.

The Director, Professional Relations will report to the President, Global Joint Reconstruction.     

Responsibilities include:

• Lead the development and execution of the thought leader engagement strategy, including an integrated cross-functional plan for contacts and activities.
• Create a strategic framework and establish engagement governance (communication rhythm, stakeholder touchpoints, etc.) between the business and thought leaders.
• Lead the team responsible for coordinating commercial advisory boards, engagement calendars, and related content for DePuy Synthes and other engagement opportunities.
• Lead and help shape the strategy developed with functional platform leaders across marketing, clinical affairs, medical affairs, regulatory, R&D and other corporate functions in support of DePuy Synthes strategic plans and business objectives.
• Partner with development, marketing, professional and commercial education and new technology managers to facilitate the external evaluation and launch of new technologies, product development, clinical and education strategy and marketing messaging.
• Identify, cultivate, and maintain professional relationships with health care professionals (HCPs) and define appropriate engagement activities.
• Develop and execute the commercial engagement plan and maintain relevant customer relationship management (CRM) tool.
• Support key opinion leaders (KOLs) by triaging and coordinating requests from across the organization.
• Partner cross-functionally to develop and execute aligned external engagement strategies across stakeholder groups.
• Provide leadership and insights to DePuy Synthes senior leaders to inform priorities, activities and thought leader engagements.
• This role may require 20-40% travel.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree is required
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant business experience is required
• Experience and success working with and interacting with health care professionals (HCPs) and key opinion leaders (KOLs) is required
• Ability to influence without authority and work with cross-functional teams in the development and delivery of brand strategic imperatives is required
• Demonstrated success of collaboration with critical internal and external stakeholders and substantial customer interface is required
• Track record of driving necessary strategic change to meet changing business needs is required
• Understands business processes, high negotiation skills and has passion to achieve sustained, superior results are required
• Strong background of regional execution, developing marketing capabilities including market insights, understanding KOL development and regulatory environment is highly preferred
• Experience successfully managing in a matrix environment is required

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.

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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Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Brand Marketing, Brand Marketing, Brand Positioning Strategy, Business Alignment, Business Storytelling, Business Valuations, Consulting, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer Intelligence, Data Analysis, Data-Driven Decision Making, Developing Others, Digital Strategy, Execution Focus, Financial Analysis, Go-to-Market Strategies, Inclusive Leadership, Industry Analysis, Leadership, Market Research, Negotiation, Problem Solving, Product Development Lifecycle, Product Portfolio Management {+ 4 more}