Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic commercial leader and subject matter expert in Spine Surgery, supporting the long-term innovation strategy, portfolio vision, and technology roadmap.
• Lead upstream marketing activities supporting the NPD process, ensuring customer, clinical, and market insights are integrated throughout development.
• Drive surgeon engagement activities, including advisory boards, Voice of Customer programmes, concept testing, and evaluation of future innovations.
• Translate customer needs, market trends, and unmet clinical demands into product requirements, business cases, and strategic growth opportunities.
• Support the development and maintenance of a multigenerational product and technology roadmap aligned with customer, market, and business needs.
• Partner with R&D, Strategic Innovation, Clinical Affairs, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, and Commercial teams to define and execute portfolio strategy.
• Monitor competitive activity, emerging technologies, and innovation trends to inform strategic decision-making and portfolio prioritisation.
• Influence and align cross-functional stakeholders, key opinion leaders, and commercial teams to support strategic planning and successful execution of innovation initiatives.
• Provide commercial leadership throughout the innovation lifecycle, including concept generation, product development, launch planning, and global commercialisation.
• Support portfolio governance, investment prioritisation, and business planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; postgraduate qualification in a related field preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in Marketing, Product Management, Strategy, Innovation, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience in Medical Devices, Orthopaedics (Spine), Surgical Technologies, Navigation, Robotics, Digital Surgery, or related healthcare technologies.
• Proven track record developing product strategies, innovation roadmaps, technology portfolios, and business cases that inform investment decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept through commercialisation while influencing stakeholders in a matrix organisation.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and commercial acumen with the ability to prioritise and deliver multiple high-impact initiatives with a high degree of autonomy.
• Experience defining long-term strategic vision, translating insights into execution plans, and delivering measurable business results.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work within cadaver lab and operating room environments is required.

Preferred

• Preferred: Experience leading surgeon advisory boards, customer engagement programmes, market development initiatives, and innovation governance processes.
• Preferred: Experience in Digital Health, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Navigation, Robotics, or enabling surgical technologies.

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 per calendar year
• For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits