Senior Manager, Innovation Excellence, Product-Pump Systems

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:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

Multi-Family R&D Product Development

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Danvers, Massachusetts, 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 Cardiovascular? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Cardiovascular team develops leading solutions for heart recovery, electrophysiology, and stroke. You will join a proud heritage of continually elevating standards of care for stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients.

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

The Senior Manager, Product- Pump Systems, Innovation Excellence is responsible for overseeing existing products, with a focus on Pump Systems throughout their lifecycle.  This position will spearhead multiple priorities and projects, cultivating alignment with research and development, operational and quality initiatives. 

This leader will be responsible for supporting innovation to scale our core business innovations with the highest standards of quality, design for manufacturability and positive impact to patients . This role requires strong product development experience, product design expertise, with ability to drive initiatives, and a passion for fostering collaboration across the business to deliver results.

 

Leadership and Strategy:

• Support and implement innovation strategies that align with organizational goals and drive business growth.

• Lead and manage product lifecycle initiatives  across existing  products (with focus on CP, 5.5 and RP pump systems)  providing direction and mentorship to drive high performance.

• Foster a culture of driving innovation while building confidence in the scale of high quality products.

• Cultivate prioritization and focus across Lifecyle initiatives through strong cross-functional, platform and business need awareness

​​Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• This role requires successful collaboration in a matrix environment, with ability to communicate with internal and external stakeholders to execute the product vision.

• This role bridges  design, development operational and supply chain to drive execution and ensure scale of high quality products that meet patients needs.

• Contributes to planning and administration of programs and initiatives that delivery product enhancements, quality and/or operational scale needs

• Partner with supply chain teams to optimize sourcing, procurement, inventory management, and logistics for accessories and packaging components

Product Design, Deployment & Sustainability

• Lead initiatives that provide enhancements of existing products,  or drive operational efficiency.

• Lead initiatives supporting product life cycle and WW commercialization.

•  Shape and implement strategies for product design for manufacturing (DFM).

• Provide Design expertise and support for Sourcing and External initiatives for existing products

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize product features and specifications.