Sr Director Platform Marketing, Wound Closure & Healing, China and Japan

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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

• Bachelors 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