Senior Project Manager – Professional Relations Liaison , Orthopedics

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Job Function:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

Project/Program Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States of America, Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America

Job Description:

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 Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value 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

DePuy Synthes is recruiting for a Senior Project Manager – Professional Relations Liaison located in Warsaw, IN, Palm Beach Gardens, FL. This position will require 20-40% travel.

On October 14, 2025, Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. 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.

It is anticipated following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes, and your employment would be governed by Orthopaedics employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. Details of any planned changes would be provided to you by Orthopaedics at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

The DePuy Synthes Senior Project Manager, Professional Relations Liaison will be responsible for providing strategic insights gained from key customers, identifying thought leaders in the therapeutic space, leading thought leader engagements, while coordinating all company contact with thought leaders including development, marketing, professional education, Health Economic & Market Access, Clinical, and other functions.   

Responsibilities:

• Coordinates commercial advisory board meetings, calendar of engagements and content for the DePuy Synthes organization as well as other engagement opportunities.

• Lead the development and execution of thought leader engagement strategy; this includes developing and coordinating an integrated plan that includes contacts and activities across multiple functions and industry conferences

• Collaborates closely with several functional areas within the organization including marketing, clinical affairs, medical affairs, regulatory, R&D and other corporate functions in support of DePuy Synthes. strategic plans and business objectives.

• Partners with GSM, US Marketing, Professional and Commercial Education and New Technology Managers to facilitate the external evaluation and launch of new technologies, product development, clinical and education strategy and marketing messaging.

• Identifies, cultivates, and maintains professional relationships with physicians, and medical associations and defines appropriate engagement activities

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