Sr Marketing Manager, OTTAVA US Systems

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Job Function:

Marketing

Job Sub Function:

Strategic Marketing

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Santa Clara, California, 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 surgery? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. Your contributions will help effectively treat some of the world’s most prevalent conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Patients are waiting.

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

Johnson & Johnson MedTech is recruiting for a Senior Marketing Manager, Ottava US Systems for the OTTAVA Surgical System, a soft‑tissue robotic surgery platform. This position is located in Santa Clara, CA or Cincinnati, OH. Remote work may be considered on a case-by-case basis within the US.
 

The Senior Manager, Systems US Marketing is responsible for owning the strategy and executional enablement of US hospital Ottava program rollouts. This role serves as the voice of the US hospital customer with deep focus on administrators, robotic coordinators, and enterprise stakeholders and orchestrates a friction light, insight led journey from capital purchase through program launch, early utilization, and program stabilization.

This leader deeply understands the unmet needs, decision dynamics, and operational realities of US hospitals and translates that expertise into insight led commercial narratives, peer to peer engagement strategies, and decision enablement tools. The role empowers Capital Sales with prescriptive guidance and scalable programs that accelerate Ottava adoption while enabling hospitals to successfully launch and grow robotic programs.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

US Hospital Program Rollout Strategy

• Own the US hospital Ottava program rollout strategy, from capital purchase through launch, activation, and early utilization.

• Define best‑practice launch models that align hospital economics, operational readiness, and Ottava systems differentiated capabilities.

• Identify and address systemic barriers to successful program launch across administrators, robotic coordinators, OR leadership, and enterprise stakeholders.

Hospital Insight & Challenger Teaching

• Serve as the subject‑matter expert on the unmet needs of US hospital executives, administrators and robotic coordinators.

• Identify emerging US trends in capital purchase behavior, robotic program structure, reimbursement considerations, and patient activation.

• Translate insights into Challenger‑based narratives that reframe how hospitals think about launching and scaling robotic surgery programs.

Peer‑to‑Peer Program Enablement

• Define the US peer‑to‑peer customer engagement strategy required to launch successful Ottava programs.

• Identify where administrator to executive to executive, administrator, coordinator to coordinator, and system‑level peer learning accelerates adoption.

• Inform educational forums, customer events, and launch programming with system‑level insight and purpose