Overview
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 jnj.com.
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Job Function
Project/Program Management Group
Job Sub Function
Project/Program Management
Job Category
Professional
All Job Posting Locations
Wokingham, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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
We have an exciting and challenging role as a Commercial Strategy and Enablement Lead for the Johnson and Johnson MedTech Surgery team.
High-impact, cross-functional role supporting the UKI General Manager of Surgery and Surgery Leadership Team while leading early launch activities for OTTAVA, our soft-tissue surgical robot. Combines strategy, program delivery, and stakeholder engagement to drive performance, profitability, and commercial strategies.
Responsibilities
* Support to the General Manager and Leadership Team: Manage governance structures, priorities, prepare briefings and presentations, coordinate follow-up actions, and ensure leadership decisions are executed.
* Strategic Support: Translate regional/global strategy into measurable plans, facilitate and run financial planning cycles and performance reviews (e.g. Commercial Operations), and deliver business cases and scenario analysis.
* OTTAVA early launch lead: Plan and coordinate pre-launch activities, site selection, KOL engagement, clinical evaluation, training strategy, and feedback loops to inform product and commercial materials.
* Cross-functional program management: Create project plans, manage timelines, owners and risks, maintain governance and clear reporting.
* Stakeholder engagement: Build relationships with NHS and private hospitals, clinicians, KOLs, partners, and internal teams to secure alignment and adoption.
Qualifications & Experience
* Typically 7–10+ years of progressive experience in roles such as frontline sales, commercial excellence, strategic roles, PMO or business operations.
* Strong project management and execution capability in complex, matrixed environments.
* Demonstrated ability to synthesise complex, imperfect data into clear insights and implications.
* Experience working closely with senior leaders and leadership teams.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to produce clear, concise executive-level outputs.
* Demonstrate inspirational leadership to energise and engage hearts and minds.
* Ability to handle ambiguity and have ‘start up’ mentality.
* Experience of navigating complexity specifically across political, environmental, social, technological, economic and legal factors.
* High learning agility, intellectual curiosity and comfort operating in ambiguity.
* Willingness and ability to travel internationally across 30% of time.
Required Skills
* Agile Decision Making
* Agility Jumps
* Analytics Insights
* Business Alignment
* Continuous Improvement
* Cross-Functional Collaboration
* Leadership
* Organizational Project Management
* Organizing
* Program Management
* Project Management Methodology (PMM)
* Project Management Office (PMO)
* Project Management Tools
* Project Reporting
* Statement of Work (SOW)
* Technical Credibility
Preferred Skills
* Agile Decision Making
* Agility Jumps
* Analytics Insights
* Business Alignment
* Continuous Improvement
* Cross-Functional Collaboration
* Leadership
* Organizational Project Management
* Organizing
* Program Management
* Project Management Tools
* Project Reporting
* PMO Tools
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