SENIOR MANAGER DESIGN SYSTEMS AND EXECUTION

Ethicon, a member of Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies, is recruiting for a Senior Manager for Design Systems and Execution located in Cincinnati, OH.

Ethicon, part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, has made significant contributions to surgery for more than 60 years from creating the first sutures, to revolutionizing surgery with minimally invasive procedures. Our continuing dedication to Shape the Future of Surgery is built on our commitment to help address the world's most pressing health care issues and improve and save more lives. Through Ethicon's surgical technologies and solutions including sutures, staplers, energy devices, trocars and hemostats and our commitment to treat serious medical conditions like obesity and cancer worldwide, we deliver innovation to make a life-changing impact. For more information, visit www.ethicon.com .

Our Senior Manager will have ownership over our risk management, system requirements (requirements work-book), Test Method Validations, and Verification and Validation strategies for the Hand-held devices.  This role will support the delivery of future innovations needed to change the standard of care in general surgery. The leader should have a change agent mindset to usher the organization towards cutting edge, lean, ‘quality appropriate to the task’ methodologies while appreciating the legacy procedures that drove our previous success.

The role will serve the full Endo-mechanical and Energy portfolios and work closely with the NPD and PPMG Sponsors to balance resources in accordance to priority and need.  Further, the leader will partner with the Quality and Regulatory groups to ensure we are maintaining the highest level of compliance that has been a staple within Ethicon.  This team member will have career development, resource management, budget, and oversight responsibilities for executing against all of our risk mitigation and design control deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish departmental standards for software, techniques, and tools for product and system requirements-traceability and FMEA’s

• Develop and lead a best-in-class Test Method Validation and Measure System Analysis group

• Establish the groups’ guidelines, standards and adherence to our verification and validation strategies

• Ability to use analytical skills to assess and modify design proposals to mitigate any potential failures or flaw

• Proactively assess and review risk mitigation and escalation processes and drive timely project execution

• Communicate effectively with various levels in the organization

• Collaborate, cooperate, and coordinate with cross-functional partners

• Partner with R&D platform leadership to support success of platform goals and objectives

• Ensure projects are delivered according to scope, schedule, budget, and quality baselines

• Develop talent, across multiple levels, through effective coaching, 1:1’s, mentoring and candid feedback