Director, Medical Affairs, Orthopedics (Trauma)

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 https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Medical Affairs Group

Job Sub Function:

Medical Affairs

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

US248 PA West Chester - 1302 Wrights Ln E

Job Description:

Johnson and Johnson Family is recruiting a Director, Medical Affairs, Orthopedics (Trauma) located in West Chester, PA

About Orthopedics

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 Orthopedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering State of the Art technology to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

The Director, Medical Affairs, Orthopedics role provides medical affairs support within an assigned platform / sub-platform (Trauma) within the Orthopedics Business Unit of Johnson & Johnson MedTech.  Leading with both outside-to-inside vision to assimilate opportunities of unmet patient and provider needs, and inside-to-outside vision to communicate the medical, surgical, and scientific content. This role provides medical input throughout product development, working closely with R&D Teams and life-cycle management, including management of regulatory documents, critical evaluation of clinical risk and input regarding potential patient safety issues.  This position involves cross-functional collaboration with Clinical Affairs and HEMA teams generating and disseminating evidence, supporting market registration, access, and adoption. A key activity is to support medical education to internal and external stakeholders, and commercialization to drive market adoption.

Tasks / Duties / Responsibilities

• Engage with omni-channel external sources of information (key opinion leaders, medical societies, literature, social media, etc.) to capture, assess, and translate opportunities of unmet patient and provider needs and trends in the medical/healthcare ecosystems.
• Support business leaders by providing medical and scientific expertise and omni-channel insights to help shape optimal business development strategy and targets, including product launches, key scientific meetings, relationship management with leading research physicians, critical evaluation of current literature and competitive activity, and in other domains where medical and scientific expertise is required.
• Validate Target Product Profiles across the assigned innovation pipeline, including gathering and assimilating input from Medical Affairs leaders across key markets.
• Provide strategic technical support for operating companies with no dedicated medical affairs personnel (and as requested for those companies with medical teams) including to help drive global innovation agenda through leadership and partnership with the Innovation leaders: Global Strategic Marketing, New Business Development, R&D, Regulatory, Clinical, Quality, & Supply Chain leveraging deep medical expertise.

Internal Process Support

• Work with cross-functional partners, including but not limited to R&D, Clinical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Health Economics & Market Access (HEMA) and Marketing to provide leadership with product development and commercial plans to support product launch, training content and delivery.
• Provide technical/surgical/scientific insights into design requirements, concept and prototype testing.
• Provide input into risk management processes for hazard/harm identification & risk mitigation.
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