Director, Product Management - Knees

Overview

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Job Details

• Job Function: Supply Chain Manufacturing

• Job Sub Function: Manufacturing Deployment

• Job Category: People Leader

• All Job Posting Locations: Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America; Ringaskiddy, Cork, Ireland; West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, regulatory approvals, and other customary conditions. If you accept this position, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes following the transaction, governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. Details of any planned changes would be provided at an appropriate time and subject to consultation processes.

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Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. You may apply to any or all postings, focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s).

Job Summary

The purpose of this leadership position is to orchestrate New Product Introduction for Knees across the end-to-end supply chain to achieve committed launch dates and a sustainable lifecycle for the product in alignment with Product Value Streams.

The E2E Product Management Lead will be responsible for the following key areas:

• New Product Delivery: Introducing new products that align with supply chain goals-on-time, within budget, with quality and service targets.

• Influence manufacturability, sustainability, controls/process capability, and capacity planning to achieve quality, reliability, cost, and growth goals.

• Coach and lead professionals across the supply chain, developing teams under tight schedules and complex product development.

• Collaborate with R&D on the One R&D Product Development Process and time-to-market initiatives.

• Provide development opportunities and mentorship using J&J performance management processes to grow a high-performing, diverse organization.

• Manage a team of SMEs to identify product, process, and resource needs; identify risks and ensure mitigations during development and launch.

• Coordinate with Supply Chain Engineering to meet gross profit objectives and establish an optimal supply chain process.

• Influence processes, strategies, and programs from a Supply Chain perspective.

• Develop manufacturing & business strategies and accelerate new product launches, including funding/approval requests.

• Prioritize NPD and lifecycle management projects and allocate resources accordingly.

• Maintain Portfolio Supply Chain health and optimize portfolio by introducing new products and completing portfolio optimization strategies.

• Ensure portfolio compliance with product stewardship regulatory requirements.

• Drive portfolio complexity management and seek simplification opportunities with commercial partners.

• Support DePuy Synthes and J&J Supply Chain capability development and improvement, and perform related duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

Role Responsibilities (Summary)

• Lead end-to-end New Product Introduction (NPI) for Knees to meet launch commitments and ensure long-term supply chain sustainability.

• Influence product development decisions to ensure products make supply-chain sense and deliver on business targets.

• Coach and develop cross-functional supply chain professionals into high-performing teams.

• Collaborate with R&D to shape product development processes and time-to-market practices.

• Oversee subject-matter experts to identify needs, manage risks, and drive mitigation during development and launch.

• Partner with Supply Chain Engineering to set manufacturing strategies and ensure launches meet profit and operational goals.

• Drive Supply Chain influence across strategies and programs with credibility and insight.

• Prioritize NPD and lifecycle projects, managing resources to maximize value.

• Maintain portfolio compliance, optimize complexity, and identify simplification opportunities.

• Support strategic capability development and continuous improvement across DePuy Synthes and J&J Supply Chain.

Qualifications Education

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree (Science, Engineering or Chemistry preferred). Advanced/Graduate degree preferred.

Experience and Skills

Required:

• A minimum of ten (10) years of experience in the regulated manufacturing industry.

• Three (3) years of management experience supervising professional exempt level individuals.

• Proficiency in industry standards, investigations/technical assessments, compliance, and validation.

• Direct experience overseeing medical device teams is strongly preferred.

• Experience working with regulatory agencies is preferred.

• Experience in new product development and partnering with R&D in a highly regulated environment.

• Demonstrated success leading product and/or process integrations.

• Strong data analysis and statistical skills are strongly preferred.

• All validation requirements for process, cleaning and packaging validation preferred.

• Six Sigma certification/training strongly preferred.

• Knowledgeable in GMP, process improvement, statistics, NPI, quality and validation requirements.

• Computer literacy required (MS Office).

Other

• May require up to 20% domestic and/or international travel to other locations and sites.

EEO and Accessibility

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. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via ; internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.