Medical Director Orthopaedics, Spine

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Job Function:

Medical Affairs Group

Job Sub Function:

Medical Affairs – MD

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

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

Job Description:

DePuy Synthes, part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies is recruiting for a Medical Director Orthopaedics, Spine to be based in one of the following facility locations in Raynham MA, West Chester PA, Warsaw IN or Palm Beach Gardens FL. The preferred arrangement is for this role is hybrid remote (3 days on location work / 2 days remote work) to be based at one of the locations listed above; however, remote work with periodic travel to one of the locations may be considered on a case-by-case basis in certain circumstances for East Coast candidates.

About Orthopaedics

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? 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; craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery. Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. For more information, visit www.depuysynthes.com.

This role provides medical affairs support within the spine platform. 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 this role provides strategic input to inform the innovative agenda within the Platform Portfolio. This role provides medical input throughout product development and life-cycle management, including management of regulatory documents, critical evaluation of clinical risk and input regarding potential patient safety issues. This role collaborates cross-functionally to support product development, including evidence generation and dissemination to drive market registration, access and adoption. This role supports medical education to internal and external stakeholders, and commercialization activities to drive market adoption.

Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities

INSIGHT MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT (15%)

• 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 medical support for operating companies with no dedicated medical affairs personnel (and as requested for those companies with medical teams) including to help drive global innovat