Associate Director, Hema, Surgical Robotics

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Cincinnati, OH +2

Associate Director, Health Economics & Market Access (HEMA) for Surgical Robotics, focusing on the OTTAVA Platform. This role involves identifying evidence gaps, executing economic studies, demonstrating clinical/operational/economic value, and creating customer-facing materials to support adoption.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the economic evidence strategy for surgical robotics by identifying evidence gaps and prioritizing endpoints and studies that support the value proposition and stakeholder needs.
  2. Co-design pragmatic, feasible study protocols with hospital partners and the Clinical team.
  3. Oversee study execution, including site selection, data collection, and analysis.
  4. Translate evidence into customer-facing materials (e.g., value story brief, cost-of-care analysis, hospital case studies) for hospital C-suite and administrative leaders.
  5. Partner with US Sales and global teams to deliver consistent value messages supported by appropriate education, tools, and evidence.

Skills

Required

  • Advanced degree (MS, MPH, PhD, MHA, MBA) in a healthcare-related field.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in the healthcare industry.
  • Experience in hospital operations, healthcare consulting or the MedTech industry
  • Strategic thinking to translate clinical and operational questions into a rigorous, pragmatic evidence program.
  • Communication and storytelling skills to translate complex evidence into succinct value narratives and customer materials.
  • Influencing and collaboration skills; credibility with clinical, commercial, and hospital audiences.
  • Healthcare acumen and understanding of the external marketplace and market access requirements that drive adoption.

Nice to have

  • Prior experience working in a hospital setting with management responsibility for robotic service lines is highly preferred.
  • Strong understanding of OR operations and robotic surgery programs (e.g., scheduling, staffing models, clinical pathways, key performance indicators).
  • Clinical operations literacy and fluency with OR workflows and the language of surgical teams and hospital administrators.
  • Analytical rigor and attention to detail (sound study designs, transparent assumptions, reproducible analyses).
  • Ability to interpret and communicate health economic deliverables (e.g., cost analyses, budget impact analyses).
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, including contracting and partnering with hospitals, clinicians, and administrators.
  • Project management experience leading health outcomes research from concept through publication, including hospital and vendor coordination.