Senior Marketing Manager, Instruments and Accessories, OTTAVA

Johnson & Johnson•Cincinnati, OH

About The Position

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit. 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 We are searching for the best talent 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. Purpose: The OTTAVA Senior Marketing Manager, I&A reports to the OTTAVA Marketing Sr. Director, I&A and Vision. This role will serve as the Marketing lead on multiple I&A project teams and will be responsible for 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 execute product launches worldwide in support of the OTTAVA System global launch.

Requirements

A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree is required, MBA preferred
Minimum of 8+ years of progressive business experience
Outstanding analytics skills and ability to understand technically complex concepts
Ability to develop and manage and nurture 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.
Strategic thinking ability to drive business results with demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority
Intellectual curiosity and learning agility are key for this role.
Strong communications skills, verbal and written are required.

Nice To Haves

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.
Experience in both NPD and downstream / brand / customer-facing roles in region
Launch excellence marketing experience strongly preferred
Strong 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 is required.
This position is based in Cincinnati and requires up to 30% Domestic and International travel.

Responsibilities

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 capital, digital, and visualization.
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 holistic learning plan and execution on I&A projects to include ensuring features and functionality exceed customer expectations and support the value proposition, further refining segmentation, targeting and positioning for the instrument and surgical job category, and establishing pricing. Working with regional leads to share learnings and insights.
Drive strong collaboration as needed with cross functional project teams including R&D, Supply Chain, Regulatory, Human Factors, Pre-clinical, Clinical, and Medical (PCM), Labeling / Packaging, Business Development, and Regional Marketing Leads.
Deliver launch excellence deliverables for projects and partner with regional marketing leads 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

Benefits

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits