Director, Media and Public Relations

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Director, Media and Public Relations.

The primary location is the J&J MedTech office in New Brunswick, NJ.

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything! Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are more inquisitive and less invasive, and solutions are more personalized.

Johnson & Johnson MedTech (JJMT) is J&J's $30B portfolio of MedTech companies with market-leading businesses across surgery, orthopaedics, cardiovascular, and vision care.

The Director, Media and Public Relations will be a strategic partner to the MT CPA leadership team that is supporting J&J MedTech - Johnson & Johnson's $30B medical technology division - as it breaks barriers to better health for millions of patients around the world.

This highly visible role will be a media savant; a creative, proactive thinker; can work with a team to identify creative media campaigns, pitches and solutions, has deep issues management experience, can build relations to garner trust in a matrixed organization, and keeps a positive attitude.

They will be a key contributor in managing issues and crisis, and enhancing the media impact of the MT CPA organization, which is accountable for:


* Building and protecting brand reputation through paid, earned, and owned media and public affairs


* Driving business growth through strategic marketing and commercial communications


* Mobilizing business strategy, activating employee culture, and managing change through employee engagement


* Positively impacting society through partnerships and programs around the world

Key Responsibilities:

Above Brand comms:


* Leading key proactive public relations campaigns and endeavors, working across MedTech business units to find larger trend stories and opportunities to elevate business priorities to key external audiences.


* Contribute to evolving global communications planning, key messaging and other MedTech positioning/branding/media relations initiatives.


* Build close working relationship with J&J Global Corporate Media Relations and enterprise teams


* Partner successfully to assist in the identification, mitigation and management of issues with the potential to impact MedTech reputation.

Prepare reactive statements/media relations plans in response.


* Act as primary spokesperson in managing issues and advancing MedTech reputation.


* Assist and lead media relations strategizing around business development/M&A opportunities.

Business Unit Enablement


* Provide strategic counsel and partnership to Regional and Franchise Communications Leaders with respect to media relations, issues management and external reputation.


* Act as media thought partner and strategic advisor to business unit communications teams


* Assist in preparing/approving MedTech executives to positively engage with media.

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