Director, Media and Public Relations

Company: Disability Solutions
Location: New Brunswick
Posted on: October 13, 2024

Job Description:

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:

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• 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\rKey Responsibilities:Above Brand comms:
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  • 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.\rBusiness Unit Enablement
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    • 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.\rGovernance:
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      • Lead and continuously improve press release approval process and navigation throughout matrix.
      • Manage, brainstorm and review cross platform award submission process and ideation.
      • Oversee media monitoring, trend watching and quarterly earnings media monitoring.
      • Ideate and collaborate on key paid media ideas and integrations.
      • Manage agency/consultants and assigned budget.\r\r

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