Senior Director, Hips R&D

Sr Director Hips R&D

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we're developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Orthopedics? Our Orthopedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery. Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness.

We are searching for the best talent to join our Orthopedic team as a Sr Director Hips R&D located preferably in Warsaw, IN or in Raynham, MA, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, or Leeds, UK.

Purpose:

Reporting directly to the VP Hips n Knees RnD, the Sr Director, Hips R&D is accountable for setting and executing the R&D vision and strategy for DePuy Synthes' hips procedural solutions, including their integration with digital, robotics, and biologics portfolios. This role drives differentiated innovation by translating deep customer insights into high-impact solutions that deliver meaningful clinical value and maximize enterprise value for DePuy Synthes.

As a member of the DePuy Synthes joints R&D Leadership Team (RDLT), the role requires active stewardship of enterprise capabilities, resources, standards, and ways of working to accelerate speed, quality, and value creation across DePuy Synthes R&D.

The Sr Director owns the upfront and New Product Development lifecycle—from concept through launch and plays a critical role in evolving processes, operating models, and talent to strengthen execution excellence. The position leads globally distributed R&D teams, serves on the cross functional hips platform leadership team, and reports to the VP of R&D Joints.

Responsibilities:

• Define and communicate the hips R&D vision and strategy, ensuring clear alignment with DePuy Synthes business priorities and R&D objectives.
• Partner with DPS stakeholders to help shape hip technology and procedural integration direction, scenario planning, and long term innovation strategies.
• Balance and actively manage hip past, present, and future R&D horizons, allocating resources with urgency and discipline across the enterprise to optimize total R&D impact.
• Provide strong oversight and influence to ensure effective execution of the hips R&D strategy, with accountability for speed, quality, customer satisfaction and profitable growth.
• Drive cross portfolio integration and collaboration to maximize reuse of platforms, technologies, and capabilities across DPS hips R&D.
• Partner with customers and business leaders to develop and refine an innovation roadmap that delivers compelling, differentiated value propositions across the hip care continuum.
• Own hips R&D performance against DPS value creation metrics.
• Share best practices, insights, and lessons learned across the joints R&D team.
• Represent hips R&D on enterprise management forums, operating boards, business planning committees, innovation councils, and the DPS R&D Leadership Team.
• Maintain strong relationships with key external stakeholders, including surgeon KOLs and emerging customer segments, to inform innovation priorities and adoption strategies.
• Lead the talent and organizational strategy to ensure culture, capabilities, and structure are aligned with both near term execution needs and long term hip R&D goals.
• Develop leaders who consistently demonstrate enterprise thinking, accountability, trust, curiosity to relentlessly improve.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• 10 years in R&D. At least 3 years' experience specific to Hips systems R&D
• At least a Bachelor's Degree
• Must have demonstrated track record in a R&D/ Platform leadership position within a large scale, global organization.
• Strong talent management credentials with at least 5-10 years' experience in organizational and talent development.
• Expert at achieving strong results in an orthopedic division or company by leading through influence and deep collaboration across the franchise and enterprise.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills and ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels in the organization and with external customers and regulatory agencies.
• Meaningful experience in strong execution of product launches with emphasis on Design to Excellence and Design to Value principles. Measurable track record of creating value through new innovations
• Ability to shape/ lead product portfolio with a strong record of leadership in enriching the innovation pipeline.
• Travel included domestic and international of around 30%

• MBA, MS engineering or advanced degree preferred
• Preferred Area of Study:
  Mechanical / Systems / Biomedical Engineering
• PMA / Class III Medical Devices experience

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