Upstream Senior Marketing Manager, Spine Robotics

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Raynham (MA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is seeking an Upstream Senior Marketing Manager, Spine Robotics for the Orthopaedics team in Raynham, MA. You will shape the innovation strategy, technology roadmap, and portfolio for Spine, translating market insights into NPD opportunities across implants, enabling technologies, and digital solutions.

You will lead cross‑functional programs, influence senior leaders in a global matrix, and partner with R&D, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, and Commercial teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; postgraduate qualification preferred.
• 8+ years in Marketing, Product Management, Strategy, Innovation, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Experience in Medical Devices, Orthopaedics (Spine), Surgical Technologies, Navigation, Robotics, Digital Surgery, or related healthcare technologies.
• Proven track record developing product strategies, roadmaps, technology portfolios, and business cases.
• Ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives in a matrix organisation.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and commercial acumen; ability to prioritise multiple initiatives autonomously.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work within cadaver lab and operating room environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic commercial leader in Spine Surgery, guiding long-term innovation strategy and portfolio vision.
• Lead upstream marketing activities supporting the NPD process with integrated customer, clinical, and market insights.
• Drive surgeon engagement activities including advisory boards and Voice of Customer programmes.
• Translate needs and market trends into product requirements, business cases, and growth opportunities.
• Support development and maintenance of multigenerational product/technology roadmaps.

Skills

Marketing

Upstream Marketing

Product Launch Planning

Robotics

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Job Function:

Marketing

Job Sub Function:

Strategic Marketing

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for an Upstream Senior Marketing Manager, Spine Robotics to join our Orthopaedics team located in_ Raynham, MA. _

Purpose:

The Upstream Senior Marketing Manager, Spine Robotics is a strategic upstream marketing leader responsible for helping shape the innovation strategy, technology roadmap, and future portfolio for the Spine business. As a subject matter expert in Spine Surgery, this individual will translate customer, clinical, and market insights into future New Product Development (NPD) opportunities across implants, enabling technologies, procedural innovation, and digital solutions. The role will support the NPD process from concept through commercialisation and act as a key commercial partner to R&D, Clinical, Medical Affairs, and Strategic Innovation teams to define and deliver the next generation of spine solutions.

• Support the definition of the innovation strategy, technology roadmap, and portfolio for the Spine business.
• Identify customer needs, emerging technologies, and market opportunities through Voice of Customer activities, technology scouting, and market analysis.
• Develop business cases, target product profiles, and investment recommendations to guide portfolio and product development decisions.
• Lead cross-functional innovation programmes from concept through development, launch, and global commercialisation.
• Influence senior leaders and drive alignment across a global matrix organisation while fostering innovation and collaboration.

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he Upstream Senior Marketing Manager, Spine Robotics will report to the Global Head of Robotics.

Responsibilities Include

• Serve as a strategic commercial leader and subject matter expert in Spine Surgery, supporting the long-term innovation strategy, portfolio vision, and technology roadmap.
• Lead upstream marketing activities supporting the NPD process, ensuring customer, clinical, and market insights are integrated throughout development.
• Drive surgeon engagement activities, including advisory boards, Voice of Customer programmes, concept testing, and evaluation of future innovations.
• Translate customer needs, market trends, and unmet clinical demands into product requirements, business cases, and strategic growth opportunities.
• Support the development and maintenance of a multigenerational product and technology roadmap aligned with customer, market, and business needs.
• Partner with R&D, Strategic Innovation, Clinical Affairs, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, and Commercial teams to define and execute portfolio strategy.
• Monitor competitive activity, emerging technologies, and innovation trends to inform strategic decision-making and portfolio prioritisation.
• Influence and align cross-functional stakeholders, key opinion leaders, and commercial teams to support strategic planning and successful execution of innovation initiatives.
• Provide commercial leadership throughout the innovation lifecycle, including concept generation, product development, launch planning, and global commercialisation.
• Support portfolio governance, investment prioritisation, and business planning.

Qualifications / Requirements:

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required; postgraduate qualification in a related field preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in Marketing, Product Management, Strategy, Innovation, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience in Medical Devices, Orthopaedics (Spine), Surgical Technologies, Navigation, Robotics, Digital Surgery, or related healthcare technologies.
• Proven track record developing product strategies, innovation roadmaps, technology portfolios, and business cases that inform investment decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept through commercialisation while influencing stakeholders in a matrix organisation.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and commercial acumen with the ability to prioritise and deliver multiple high-impact initiatives with a high degree of autonomy.
• Experience defining long-term strategic vision, translating insights into execution plans, and delivering measurable business results.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work within cadaver lab and operating room environments is required.

• Preferred: Experience leading surgeon advisory boards, customer engagement programmes, market development initiatives, and innovation governance processes.
• Preferred: Experience in Digital Health, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Navigation, Robotics, or enabling surgical technologies.

About Orthopaedics

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 Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.

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

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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Required Skills:

Marketing, Product Launch Planning, Product Management, Robotics, Upstream Marketing

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$122,000.00 - $212,750.00

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.

Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

Vacation –120 hours per calendar year

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 period10 days

Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year

Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits