Senior Director, MT CPA Strategy & Operations

Communications & Corporate/External Affairs

Multi-Family Communications & Corporate/External Affairs

Professional

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Irvine, California, United States of America, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

We are searching for the best talent to join our team as the Senior Director, MT CPA Strategy & Operations. The preferred location is New Brunswick, NJ but consideration will be given to other Medtech office locations.

Reports to: Global Leader, Med Tech Communications & Public Affairs

Geographic Scope: Global

Remote work options may be considered on a case-by-case basis and if approved by the Company.

The Senior Director, MT CPA Strategy & Operations serves as the strategy and operations leader for Med Tech Communications & Public Affairs, partnering closely with the Global Vice President and MT CPA Leadership Team to strengthen organizational performance, enable transformation, and advance the function’s impact on business outcomes.

This leader is responsible for driving the strategic planning, operating model evolution, measurement and insights agenda, communications technology ecosystem, budget governance, vendor management, process excellence, and capability-building efforts that enable MT CPA to operate with greater agility, efficiency, creativity, and measurable business impact. As part of our new operating model, this role will also need to create scalable operations platforms and processes to support our BU CPA teams.

The role serves as a catalyst for modernization—bringing external perspectives, emerging technologies, industry standards, and innovative tools and operating models into the organization to continuously strengthen how MT CPA delivers value. This includes actively assessing the effectiveness of core MT CPA processes that enable business growth, protect and build reputation, and strengthen J&J employee culture.

Finally, this leader plays an active role in advancing MT CPA’s Credo-based culture by developing and leading programs that increase team connection, engagement, learning, and impact, while representing Med Tech in key Global Corporate Affairs forums and bringing enterprise priorities and best practices back into the function.

• Partner with the MT CPA Leadership Team to define and operationalize the function’s strategic priorities, transformation roadmap, and annual planning process.
• Lead ongoing assessment of the effectiveness and impact of core MT CPA processes that drive business growth, reputation, employee culture, and organizational performance.
• Bring external insights, benchmarks, emerging trends, and best practices to help modernize the function and ensure MT CPA remains future-ready.

• Lead MT CPA operating mechanisms, leadership team routines, business reviews, budget governance, vendor management, and priority project management processes.
• Drive operational rigor across planning, prioritization, resource management, decision-making, and execution to ensure the function delivers against enterprise and Med Tech priorities.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on organizational performance, investment decisions, operational effectiveness, process improvement, and transformation progress.

• Build and lead MT CPA’s insights, analytics, and measurement framework to demonstrate communications impact and inform strategic decision-making.
• Oversee stakeholder research, reputation…