NORTH AMERICA COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC AFFAIRS LEADER, ETHICON MEDICAL DEVICES

Job description

Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies is currently recruiting for a North America Communications & Public Affairs Leader, Ethicon Medical Devices to be located in either Somerville, NJ or Cincinnati, OH.

Johnson & Johnson Medical Device Companies produce a broad range of innovative products and solutions used primarily by health care professionals in the fields of Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices contains key surgical platforms such as Wound Closure, Orthopedics, Open and Minimally Invasive Stapling, Energy, Biosurgery, Aesthetics, ENT, and Cardiovascular surgical products. As the most comprehensive devices business in the world, Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices is best suited to serve evolving customer needs, train more surgeons to improve standards of care, and treat more patients globally as access expands. Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices is currently $20 billion in World Wide sales. The business is expected to experience solid growth over the next 5 to 7 years.

Thriving on a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our employees and committed to inclusion. Proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

The North America Communications & Public Affairs Leader, Ethicon Medical Devices sets and leads team responsible for creating and executing the Medical Device communication strategy across the North America region to enable growth.

Responsibilities:

• Creates comprehensive communication strategy for North America Communication and Public Affairs aligned with business priorities.

• Cultivates meaningful external relationships and partnerships outside of J&J, adding value and insights for the enterprise; insight-driven to proactively uncover critical unmet needs and turn them into new opportunities.

• Demonstrates and inspires the behaviors that reinforce Our Credo.

• Translates insights into innovative and viable products or solutions, creating value; challenges the status quo and leads change management activities, creating positive change; takes and properly manages risks, while maintaining the highest standards of quality and compliance, contributing to value creation.

• Takes ownership for talent acquisition, performance and development in a way that enhances the performance and development of self and others; maximizes and leverages diverse perspectives, backgrounds and talent to generate innovative ideas or solutions to address organizational challenges; engages in and encourages others to have transparent and constructive conversations and encourages others, contributing to a high-performing organization.

• Empowers people to act with speed, agility, and accountability, enabling them to achieve organizational goals and strategies; makes decisions and takes actions based on a global and enterprise-wide mindset that adds value across the enterprise; balances short- and long-term strategic choices, positions the organization to achieve both short-term and expected future results

• Collaborates closely with MD Franchise and Stakeholder leads and GCPA centers of excellence to advance thought leadership programs, media opportunities and organizational/change communications, and manage product and platform issues in the region.

• Partners with Franchise communication to deliver narrative for multiple audiences.

• Aligns with and executes Enterprise employee engagement plan to fully inform and align employees of regional goals.

• Lead strategic communication of strategy and corporate messaging to region's sales teams.

• Manages team responsible for creating and executing proactive communication programs that drive health care professional awareness/loyalty and patient pull-through, while enhancing the reputation of our franchises, in collaboration with Medical Devices Stakeholder team.

• Serves on the US Leadership Team and provide senior business leader counsel.

• Effectively manages and leverages agencies, consultants and budgets.

• Manages team, develops talent and reinforces leading-edge communication practices.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree is required

• Minimum of seven (7) years of experience in stakeholder communication or related field is required.

• Minimum of two (2) years of people leadership & development experience is required.

• Current or previous experience working in a global function with demonstrated understanding of issues and influences in healthcare is required.

• Demonstrated ability to counsel senior leaders is required.

• Current or previous experience managing multiple priorities in a matrixed environment with a demonstrated ability to drive results through influence management and sometimes amid ambiguity is required.

• High tolerance for change and pressure is required.

• High flexibility and a steady temperament is required.

• Ability to demonstrate expert judgment in critical decision making on issues impacting corporate reputation is required.

• Current or previous experience managing and leveraging agencies and consultants is preferred.

• Current or previous experience managing budgets of $500,000 or more is preferred.

• Demonstrated current or previous experience utilizing key problem-solving skill in developing communication strategies and actions is required.

• A high degree of personal initiative, as well as outstanding interpersonal, teamwork, listening, verbal, written communications and process facilitation skills are required.

• Current or previous experience influencing global teams is required.

• Exceptional verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills and the ability to deliver messages through an authentic voice is required.

• High degree of independent judgment and experience making decisions efficiently to support execution of plans is required.

• This position will be located in either Somerville, NJ or Cincinnati, OH and will require up to 30% of domestic and international travel