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Suzhou, CN

R&D Director-Ethicon-000008M2

Description
- Organizational and People Development:

² Conflict management

² Leadership

² Identify, acquire, and retain required talent and create a talent strategy that aligns with the product pipeline strategy

² Build an organization capable of supporting Ethicon EP NPD for product development and Supply chain expectations for Suzhou production

² Provide constructive feedback & coaching to team members & support personnel to assist in skills development

² Provide career development guidance to direct reports

² Provide individual performance appraisals & compensation adjustment recommendations to management

² Employee performance feedback

² Participate in interview process for open department positions

Interaction

² Negotiating (e.g., internal & external customers)

² Networking, relationship building & maintenance

² Influencing senior management, partners

² Customer relations

² High ethics that reflect Credo values and are based in GLP competencies

² Oral, written, & presentation communications

² Able to take initiative & be self managing

² Work with partner groups to gain alignment & support to achieve project objectives by recognizing key individuals and build strong working relationships both internally and externally

² Participate as a senior manager to improve environment & business systems of Ethicon

² Provide direct communication to management on progress, opportunities & issues

Interdependent Partnering:

² Transfer product & manufacturing processes from development team to operations & marketing organizations at completion of project

² Obtain resources from functional organizations, support groups & outside sources to ensure project success

Team Building:

² Effective interpersonal team skills

² Able to work effectively within & lead a diverse group

² Lead cross-functional development team in executing project objectives according to a written, approved performance agreement

² Lead cross-functional team in executing product development performance agreement

² Foster teamwork within team & between team & other groups

Goal Setting:

² Able to establish viable metrics for assigned projects

² Develop comprehensive project plans

² Continuously re-evaluate project to determine validity of concept assumptions

Organization and Planning:

² Project management principles

² Judgment, decision making

² Financial control, budgeting, risk analysis

² Able to adapt rapidly shifting priorities

² Able to handle rapid pace environment

² Lead efforts to transition projects from investigations (product concepts & technology) through assessment & recommendations for business opportunities

² Determine and assign the most effective use of internal and external resources and build required relationships to maximize NPD output

² Perform work as assigned by team in best interest of project success, including overcoming adversity in order to drive positive outcome

² Ensure projects are executed in compliance with regulatory requirements & ETHICON policy & procedure requirements

² Capture & disseminate knowledge acquired during projects to improve ETHICON product development processes & systems

² Ensure that domestic & global market strategy, assumptions, business opportunities are measured & periodically reviewed throughout duration of project execution & initial product launch

² Develop comprehensive project plans

² Establish & assign roles & responsibilities for team members and suppliers

Travel Requirements:
- Local travel, sometimes on short notice, within China and to other regional locations including Taiwan, India, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The position will also require international travel outside of Asia.

Policies:
- Know & follow ETHICON policies & procedures & assure that direct reports know & follow ETHICON policies & procedures related to work activities performed in area of responsibility
- SAFETY: Set standards for safe behavior. Recognize & reward safe behavior in others. Ensure that direct reports employ safe practices. Enforce safety policies & procedures. Evaluate staff member's safety performance & insure that safety is a part of each direct report's GPMS
- All employees are responsible for minimizing both the environmental and health and safety effects of the work that they perform.

Qualifications

- PHD in science
- 10+ years working experiences in medical industry
- 5+ year managerial experience
- Effective team interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively within diverse cultural environments.
- Fluent in both Chinese and English
- Analytical and creative thinking.
- Excellent teamwork, detail oriented, flexible & high quality driven.
- Entrepreneurial spirit and self starter
- Broad knowledge in local regulatory and governmental policies and regulations
- Experience in both pre-clinical and clinical studies
- Proven record of accomplishment: direct association with or leading efforts to develop technically complex products from concept to market.
- Able to speak and write English fluently.
- Other skills/Knowledge requirements:

² Working knowledge of general design engineering principles.

² Marketing technical products.

² Knowledge of manufacturing processes & systems

² Intellectual property process, terminology

² Quality, statistical process controls, design of experiments, statistics, standards

² Understanding of risk analysis process

² Knowledge & understanding of medical regulations & their impact on the business, ISO, & GMP

² Technical writing

² Knowledge of medical & surgical terminology & anatomy

² Information analysis

² Complex problem analysis & resolution

Primary Location:Asia Pacific-China-Jiangsu-Suzhou
Organization: Johnson & Johnson Medical Suzhou Ltd. (7054)
Job Function: Informatics