Senior R&D Manager, Platform Integration

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Job Function:
R&D Product Development
Job Sub Function:
R&D Digital
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America
Job Description:

We are seeking top talent for the Senior R&D Manager, Platform Integration role on our DePuy Synthes Orthopaedics team, based in Raynham, MA.

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? Ready to join a team that's reimagining how we heal? 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

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Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone Orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals.

Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes, and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

Summary: The Senior Manager Platform Integration leads delivery and integration of the Sports capital equipment and arthroscopy portfolio across both new product development (NPD) and lifecycle management (LCM), ensuring products are successfully delivered and function as a cohesive system. This role drives alignment across technologies, teams, and partners so that independently developed subsystems integrate reliably across current and future platforms, while identifying and scaling capabilities that can be leveraged across the organization.

This role works cross-functionally, both internally and externally with engineering, software and infrastructure, marketing, clinical, supply chain, quality, and regulatory teams to ensure robust, reliable, and manufacturable solutions. They will also work closely with legal and business development to draft and review contracts and agreements.

The Senior Manager Platform Integration is accountable for execution from design through commercialization, ensuring designs meet performance, safety, reliability, cost, and regulatory requirements. This role combines technical leadership, people management, and cross-functional collaboration, enabling the successful execution of complex programs in a regulated environment.

You will:

• Lead a team of multi-disciplinary engineers responsible for the development and delivery of high performance, reliable, arthroscopic equipment solutions, including visualization, fluid management (FMS), resection, and instrumentation.
• Own and drive system requirements, ensuring alignment with system-level requirements, user needs, performance targets, and regulatory constraints
• Identify critical paths during product development, address bottlenecks and risks and facilitate problem solving across R&D teams.
• Ensure robust design margin and implementation of lessons learned from field data, validation testing, and post-market feedback.
• Partner with system architects and technical leads to align design and system behavior
• Define and review design concepts, trade studies, and architecture decisions to balance performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, and serviceability.
• Ensure appropriate use of analytical and simulation tools (FEA, thermal, kinematic modeling) to support design decisions and risk…