Director Of Packaging

Robotics & Digital Solutions, part of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, is recruiting for a Director of Packaging, Robotics, located in Santa Clara, CA.

Robotics & Digital Solutions is part of Ethicon, Inc., a global leader in surgery with products and solutions found in almost every operating room around the world. Ethicon has made significant contributions to surgery for more than 100 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 robotics, digital solutions, 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

This role will manage a matrixed and direct team to deliver on package and label design for current and new business initiatives for product innovations, life cycle product upgrades, and well as quality and customer relevant innovation particularly around sustainability. They will be required to develop talent and capability in organization. The role with have high visibility with leadership and will be required to communicate frequently and influence VP’s and Sr. Directors across the Research & Development, Marketing, Sales, Field Service, Quality, and Manufacturing organizations.

The person in this position is accountable for the following:

• Package design and process for large capital systems (including service parts/subsystems) sterile and non-sterile disposable/responsible instruments, laparoscopes, and accessories
• Optimization of solutions for the hospital customer, field service, global logistics, manufacturing, material supply, sustainability, and cost of all packaging/labeling elements of the business

Qualifications

Education:

· BS in Packaging or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

· MBA preferred

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• Minimum 10 years professional experience, including 3 years leading an organization of packaging design & process engineers
• Experience interacting with hospital customers of medical devices to optimize design solutions
• Project/Program management in a large matrixed organization
• Financial accountability for a department budget as well as optimization of product cost of goods sold and cost to serve
• Large capital equipment medical device industry experience required

Other:

· The expected travel for this position is 10%

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and 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, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.