Director Product Management - Hips in Leeds

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.

DePuy Synthes is currently recruiting for a Director, Product Management - Hips to join our team. 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.

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

• New Product Delivery: Introducing new products that make ‘supply chain sense’, on-time, cost, quality and service level.
• Influence key product development attributes (manufacturability, sustainability, controls/process capability, network/capacity planning) to achieve targeted quality, reliability, cost and growth goals.
• Act as a Coach to professionals across the SC with an ability to orchestrate, lead, inspire and develop teams operating under tight schedules and highly complex product development.
• Collaborate with and influence the R&D team in the development and evolution of the One R&D Product Development Process and supporting stage gate process and time to market initiatives.
• Provide development opportunities and mentorship and use J&J performance management processes to grow a high-performing, diverse organization where individuals reach their personal aspirations.
• Manage a team of SMEs to ensure product/process/resource needs for assigned NPD projects are identified and communicated to the NPD team.
• Identify risks and work with the team to assure mitigations are completed during the development and launch phases of a new product.
• Orchestrate activities with in partnership with Supply Chain Engineering teams to assure gross profit objectives are met and an optimal supply chain process is established.
• Influence processes, strategies and key programs with strength and credibility from a Supply Chain point-of-view.
• Develop manufacturing & business strategies and accelerate launch of new products including development of compelling cases and successful championing of funding/appropriation requests.
• Prioritize NPD and LCM projects and resource allocation in consultation with partners.
• Maintain Portfolio Supply Chain “Health” and optimize portfolio Maintenance by introducing NPI’s that meet or exceed gross profit targets and continually completing portfolio optimization strategies.
• Assure portfolio compliance with respect to product stewardship-related regulatory requirements.
• Drive portfolio complexity management practices.
• Find opportunities for complexity reduction and build compelling cases for action with commercial partners.
• Leading the development of key talent within the team and the right level of capabilities to meet the current and emerging requirements of the portfolio are in place.
• Establish & maintain strong collaborative working relationships with partners (e.g. Value Stream, Commercial, R&D).
• Management of team performance in the delivery of overall targets & results.
• Driving best practice & the application of consistent standards across all project delivery activities.
• Driving a culture of continuous improvement with a steadfast focus on process & delivery excellence.

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree and/or University degree is required, preferably in the field of Science, Engineering or Chemistry. Advanced/Graduate degree is preferred.
• A minimum of ten (10) years of overall experience in the regulated manufacturing industry required.
• Three (3) years of management experience supervising professional exempt level individuals.
• Experience partnering with R&D organizations in a highly regulated environment.
• Demonstrated success leading product and/or process integrations.
• Knowledgeable in: GMP and pharmaceutical industry applicable regulations, process improvement and capacity enabling methodologies, statistics, new product presentations and new product introduction, quality, and all validation requirements for process, cleaning and packaging validation.
• Computer literacy required (MS Office related programs).

• Proficiency in industry standards, investigations/technical assessments, compliance, and validation is strongly preferred.
• Direct experience overseeing medical device teams is strongly preferred.
• Experience working with regulatory agencies is preferred.
• Experience in new product development processes and practices.
• Superior data analysis and statistical skills are strongly preferred.
• All validation requirements for process, cleaning and packaging validation preferred.
• Six Sigma certification/training strongly preferred.

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

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.