Senior Director VET Quality (Orthopaedics)

Location: Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America; additional posting location: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States of America

Base pay range: $196,000–$342,700 per year

Company

Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s Orthopaedics business, DePuy Synthes, develops solutions for joint reconstruction, trauma, spine, sports medicine, and related surgical technologies.

What you will do

• Lead the Quality organization for the VET Platform, with accountability for design and Supply Chain Quality.
• Own end-to-end quality for new products and processes developed with R&D, including transfers to internal and external supply chain partners.
• Lead global, cross-functional, multidisciplinary project teams and define product development and production improvement strategies.
• Provide direction, structure, and decision-making in high-risk, ambiguous situations.
• Build partnerships across Supply Chain, R&D, Regulatory, Business Development, commercial organizations, and service teams.
• Lead resolution of cross-functional issues and communicate compliance matters and opportunities to senior management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of Quality Engineering experience in new product development, Supply Chain, or both.
• Experience in the medical device and/or pharmaceutical industry; 12+ years is preferred.
• Experience enabling technology and integrating it into multiple platforms.
• Proven complex decision-making experience and a record of bringing compliant products successfully to market.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, communication, organizational, leadership, and people-development skills.

Nice to have

• Quality Management Systems, Quality Control, CAPA, SOPs, compliance management, and continuous improvement.
• Experience developing and coaching people, inclusive leadership, performance measurement, and succession planning.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive work environment guided by the company’s Credo.
• Participation in pension, savings, and 401(k) plans.
• Eligibility for the long-term incentive program.
• Vacation, sick time, holidays, personal and family time, parental leave, caregiver leave, bereavement leave, volunteer leave, and military spouse time-off benefits.
• International and cross-functional collaboration across the Orthopaedics organization.