About This Role
This senior leadership role is within the Global Corporate Affairs organization, providing dedicated communications leadership for the company's global commercial platforms including joints, trauma, spine, sports medicine, and enabling technologies. The Senior Director partners closely with global platform leaders to align communications strategy with commercial priorities, advance new product introductions, and lead customer engagement objectives. With an emphasis on approved product communications, launch excellence, and customer engagement, the role ensures product innovation, clinical evidence, and platform strategy are translated into clear, compelling, and compliant communications that support adoption and growth.
Responsibilities
- Accelerate growth across core platforms by strengthening how products and innovation are communicated to surgeons and customers
- Elevate new product introduction (NPI) execution through disciplined, differentiated product launch communications
- Enhance customer engagement at major congresses and medical meetings through cohesive, high-quality communications experiences
- Help build and mature standalone commercial communications capabilities during a period of business transformation
- Lead global commercial and marketing communications strategy in support of priority platforms, including joints, trauma, spine, sports medicine, and enabling technologies
- Oversee integrated commercial communications across owned, earned, and shared channels, including digital, social, events, and marketing enablement tools
- Partner closely with Marketing and global platform leaders to shape product positioning, messaging, and launch strategy
- Own communications strategy and execution for new product introductions (NPI) including approved messaging and integrated activation plans
- Lead communications planning for major congresses, medical meetings, and customer engagement moments, ensuring strong alignment across product, platform, and brand storytelling
- Ensure communications are accurate, compliant, and aligned with regulatory, legal, and medical requirements
- Collaborate with brand, corporate, media, and internal communications partners to ensure cohesion across the broader communications ecosystem
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing commercial communications team with strong product and customer engagement expertise
- Establish clear performance metrics to assess effectiveness of launches, congress engagement, and commercial communications impact
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred
- 12+ years of experience in communications, marketing, or related disciplines, with significant experience supporting commercial organizations
- Deep experience in media and public relations, public affairs, digital communications, internal communications, and issues management
- Demonstrated success partnering with senior business leaders in P&L-driven environments
- Deep expertise in product, platform, or pipeline communications, including NPI and lifecycle product support
- Strong understanding of congress strategy, medical meetings, and healthcare customer engagement models
- Experience operating in regulated industries such as medical technology or life sciences
- Proven ability to lead teams and influence at the executive level in matrixed organizations
- Strategic, adaptable leader with strong executional rigor
Benefits
- Vacation: 120 hours
- Sick time: 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado: 48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington: 56 hours per calendar year
- Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays: 13 days per calendar year
- Work, Personal and Family Time: up to 40 hours per calendar year
- Parental Leave: 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
- Bereavement Leave: 240 hours for an immediate family member; 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
- Caregiver Leave: 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
- Volunteer Leave: 32 hours per calendar year
- Military Spouse Time-Off: 80 hours per calendar year
Important Details
- Locations: New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America; Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States of America; Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America; West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
About the Company
Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate its Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. DePuy Synthes is a global leader in orthopaedics, advancing patient care through innovative solutions across joint reconstruction, trauma, spine, sports medicine, and enabling surgical technologies. As DePuy Synthes separates from Johnson & Johnson, it is focused on accelerating growth across its commercial platforms and further strengthening engagement with surgeons, healthcare professionals, and customers worldwide.
