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Job Function:

Marketing

Job Sub Function:

Strategic Marketing

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Job Description:

The Sr Director Platform Marketing, Wound Closure & Healing, China and Japan partners with platform and priority market leaders to ensure clarity, consistency, and impact of brand strategy in key growth geographies. The team serves as a connective layer between global brand strategy and priority market needs, enabling strong brand presence, coherence, and enabling aligned market execution across MedTech Surgery platform portfolios.

This role focuses on serving priority market needs and brand stewardship — supporting markets to deliver strategic priorities while respecting and communicating local context and requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Brand Stewardship & Alignment

• Act as stewards of global brand strategy, ensuring clarity, consistency, and adherence across markets
• Support translation of global brand direction into regionally relevant approaches across China and Japan
• Serves up critical market insights to brand leaders for new product development and brand strategy initiatives in line with market needs

Regional & Market Partnership

• Serve as a primary interface between global brand teams and priority market leaders
• Support priority markets in adapting global strategies to local needs, regulations, and market dynamics

Marketing Enablement & Capabilities

• Enable markets with approved modular content, guidance, and tools to support brand presence and engagement
• Support consistency in digital presence, congress participation, and brand expression across markets
• Partner with priority market teams to strengthen marketing capabilities and ways of working

Planning, Coordination & Governance

• Support and refine market and global planning processes (e.g., LRFP, LRPP, business planning) through coordination and alignment
• Enable visibility and alignment across market priorities, tradeoffs, and dependencies
• Support governance and standards related to brand use, messaging, and market adaptation

Insights, Learning & Best Practices

• Facilitate sharing of insights and learnings across key markets and platforms
• Support identification and dissemination of best practices to strengthen brand impact globally

Key Stakeholders

• Global Strategic Marketing (brand teams) & Platform Leadership
• Market Presidents & Market Business Directors & China/Japan Leadership teams

Success Measures

• Clarity and consistency of brand strategy across markets
• Strength of partnership and satisfaction with global support
• Improved alignment between global brand intent and market needs
• Adoption of common standards, tools, and ways of working across markets

Capabilities & Profile

• Strong customer engagement capabilities and demonstrated experience of convening target groups of customers through an established network of industry leaders
• Strong understanding of global and marketing dynamics
• Ability to operate across complexity and multiple geographies
• Trusted partner mindset with strong stakeholder management skills
• Strategic orientation with a focus on enablement, alignment, and impact
• Comfort working across portfolios, platforms, and levels of the organization

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, Business Administration, Life Sciences, or related discipline; MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in marketing or related field.
• Proven success in country-level commercial or marketing roles.
• Demonstrated ability to execute within cross-functional, matrixed environments.
• Strong analytical, communication, and influencing skills.
• Experience working with hospital systems, clinical stakeholders, or medical technology.
• Deep understanding of market analytics, brand execution, pricing, and customer insights.
• Preferred Experience
• 7+ years of progressive experience in strategic or regional marketing within medical devices or healthcare.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience developing high-performing teams.
• Experience launching and growing surgical products within local markets.
• Strong experience adapting global strategies to regional execution.
• Experience with the Wound Closure and Healing portfolio is a strong plus

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Brand Marketing, Brand Marketing, Brand Positioning Strategy, Business Alignment, Business Storytelling, Business Valuations, Consulting, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer Intelligence, Data Analysis, Data-Driven Decision Making, Developing Others, Execution Focus, Financial Analysis, Go-to-Market Strategies, Inclusive Leadership, Industry Analysis, Leadership, Market Research, Negotiation, Problem Solving, Product Development Lifecycle, Product Portfolio Management, Product Strategies {+ 3 more}