Marketing Manager, Global Growth Marketing - Trauma

Description

The role is a Marketing Manager, Global Growth Marketing, Trauma, based in West Chester, PA, within the DePuy Synthes business of Johnson & Johnson's Orthopaedics teams.

The Orthopaedics teams serve more than 6 million people a year and build solutions for joint reconstruction, trauma and craniomaxillofacial, sports, extremities and elective foot and ankle, spine, and robotics and digital surgery.

You would lead global promotion of the VOLT Plating Platform, shaping its story, turning platform strategy into differentiated messages, and building a global promotional plan that grows awareness, engagement and business.

You would work closely with agency partners, regional marketing teams and cross-functional stakeholders to create scalable campaigns and assets that can be launched across markets.

Job function: Marketing. Sub-function: Product Management. Category: Professional.

Responsibilities

• Track trauma market conditions, customer needs, competitor moves, media and channel trends, and regional differences, and use what you learn to sharpen the platform story and find ways to raise visibility.
• Grow the global VOLT narrative, messaging structure and value proposition into a clear, consistent story for priority audiences, turning complex platform, portfolio, clinical and technical detail into promotional content, and working with Medical, Regulatory, Legal and other reviewers to keep it compliant.
• Lead advertising, creative, digital, production, public relations and other agencies from brief to delivery, setting direction, managing scope, timelines and budgets, giving feedback, and holding partners to high-quality, on-brand work.
• Build and lead a global promotional plan covering campaign priorities, audiences, channels, investment needs, activation roadmaps and success measures, aligned with the wider VOLT strategy and adaptable to regional and local needs.
• Own the strategy and development of high-end product marketing assets, planning content, production, review and release into one cohesive body of work.
• Work with regional marketing teams to co-create campaigns, bring in market insight, and enable localization and activation, building ways of working that balance global consistency with regional relevance.
• Lead the global campaign rollout, give regions activation guidance and implementation support, set indicators for reach, engagement, asset use and business impact, and use performance data and market feedback to improve future campaigns.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree is required.
• An MBA is preferred.
• At least 5 years of business experience in marketing, agency, public relations or a related field is required.
• At least 2 years in a medical device or other healthcare-regulated environment is preferred.
• Proven experience developing and running brand campaigns and launching products, services or programs to the healthcare community is required.
• Orthopedics experience is preferred.
• Experience working with surgeon customers and a sales force is preferred. Sales experience is a plus.
• You must be comfortable making sound decisions with incomplete information in an ambiguous setting.
• You must show you can work across functions in a matrixed organization and influence without formal authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills are required.
• Hands-on, fast-moving, customer-focused work is needed. International or worldwide experience is preferred.
• The role requires about 20% travel, including weekends, both domestic and international.
• On October 14, 2025, Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate its Orthopaedics business into a standalone company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The separation is expected to finish within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements including works council and employee representative consultation where required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions.
• If the transaction closes, you would expect to become a DePuy Synthes employee, governed by Orthopaedics employment processes, programs, policies and benefit plans. Orthopaedics will share details of any planned changes at an appropriate time, subject to any required consultation.
• Required skills: Brand Marketing, Brand Positioning Strategy, Business Storytelling, Customer Centricity, Customer Intelligence, Data Analysis, Data-Driven Decision Making, Digital Strategy, Execution Focus, Financial Analysis, Industry Analysis, Operational Excellence, Process Improvements, Product Development Lifecycle, Product Management, Product Portfolio Management, Product Strategies, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Thinking, Technical Credibility.

Conditions

Based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Travel is about 20% and includes weekends, both domestic and international.

The company offers equal opportunity to all applicants. Candidates needing an interview accommodation due to a disability can request one through the careers contact page for external applicants, or through AskGS for internal employees.