Director - Global Commercialization & Launch Excellence
About The Position
Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Director - Global Commercialization & Launch Excellence to join our Robotics & Digital Solutions organization. This is a field-based role available in all cities within the United States. We invite candidates from any location to apply. About Surgery: Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Our Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and JOB SUMMARY: The Director - Global Commercialization & Launch Excellence will lead end-to-end commercialization readiness and launch execution across Robotics and Digital platforms, including Bronchoscopy, Urology, and Digital Solutions initiatives. This role is accountable for designing and executing scalable global launch frameworks that accelerate adoption, strengthen technical-commercial execution, and improve early performance consistency across regions. The Director serves as the enterprise authority for early-phase commercialization strategy, partnering with regional commercial leaders to ensure launches translate into durable adoption, procedural reliability, and sustained utilization. Due to the clinical and workflow-intensive nature of platform adoption, this role is field-based and requires meaningful in-market engagement during priority launch phases.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Business, or related technical discipline required, MBA preferred.
- 10 - 12 years progressive experience in MedTech or healthcare technology.
- People / team leadership experience required.
- Demonstrated success in capital equipment commercialization and global product launches.
- Proven success translating technical innovation into scalable commercial execution frameworks.
- Experience leading high-stakes field execution and resolving complex clinical and technical escalations.
- Strong background influencing cross-functional stakeholders (Commercial, R&D, Marketing, Clinical, Operations).
- Experience developing launch playbooks, technical sales narratives, and competitive differentiation strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to operate globally across regions and cultures.
- Deep understanding of robotics-assisted workflows, adoption curve management, and utilization ramp dynamics.
- Ability to travel extensively both domestically and internationally (up to 80%).
Nice To Haves
- Multi-platform commercialization experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Own and continuously evolve the global commercialization readiness framework.
- Define launch criteria, risk identification standards, and execution governance models.
- Lead pre-launch workshops focused on positioning, workflow integration, and technical differentiation.
- Translate product roadmap features into field-relevant technical-commercial execution models.
- Align deployment strategies with regional commercial leadership.
- Lead coordinated early-launch commercial readiness and execution in partnership with regional and global core teams (i.e. Education and Service).
- Provide in-field presence during priority launch waves to ensure execution consistency across countries / regions.
- Identify execution risks and drive corrective actions during early commercialization phases.
- Define early adoption performance indicators aligned to utilization trajectory, workflow reliability, and competitive differentiation.
- Standardize post-launch escalation pathways and mitigation strategies across markets.
- Partner with regional leadership to ensure launch execution supports sustained commercial performance.
- Establish post-launch evaluation cadence to ensure accountability and continuous improvement.
- Provide structured leadership updates on launch readiness, execution quality, and commercialization performance.
- Build model, capabilities, and team to support global strategic expansion initiatives, early launch experiences and on-going success.
- Institutionalize repeatable launch templates applicable across Bronchoscopy, Urology, and Digital Solution initiatives.
- Capture field insights and integrate learnings into global playbooks and training standards.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life insurance
- short- and long-term disability
- business accident insurance
- group legal insurance
- consolidated retirement plan (pension)
- savings plan (401(k))
- long-term incentive program
- Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year
- Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
- Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year
- Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
