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Job Function:
Technology Product & Platform Management
Job Sub Function:
Multi-Family Technology Product & Platform Management
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Job Description:
DePuy Synthes is recruiting for a Director, Technology Business Leader for the Asia-Pacific Region located in Japan.
This role serves as the senior technology leader and strategic partner to the DePuy Synthes ASPAC region leadership team. The Director owns the strategy, prioritization and execution of technology and data across the full Asia-Pacific Region value chain—Commercial, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, R&D and enabling functions—translating business growth agenda into differentiated, in‑market outcomes.
This is an end-to-end technology business interfacing role. The Director is the single point of technology accountability for Asia-Pacific, shaping and prioritizing demand, governing portfolio health, and driving decision-making, while partnering with the global Technology organization and enterprise IT teams to ensure secure, reliable operations and to keep delivery commitments, risks and dependencies visible and actively managed.
The role balances local market requirements, Asia-Pacific Region and specific market regulatory and language localization needs, enterprise standards, cybersecurity, compliance and global scalability—operating at the intersection of in‑market business strategy, end‑to‑end technology execution and separation readiness.
Key Responsibilities
End-to-End Technology Strategy & Execution
- Act as the end‑to‑end technology leader, owning the strategy, prioritization and execution of technology and data across Commercial, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, R&D and enabling functions.
- Ensure sustained, reliable operations of technology ecosystems and data products across the value chain.
- Drive the business to explore, adopt and deploy digital, data and AI capabilities aligned to Asia-Pacific Region growth priorities.
- Coordinate with the global Technology organization, CTO and CISO to ensure secure, resilient and standardized technology execution in market.
Strategic Business Partnership & Stakeholder Engagement
- Serve as trusted technology advisor to the Asia-Pacific Region leadership team and participate in the local leadership cadence.
- Translate Asia-Pacific Region business strategy into technology roadmaps, investment priorities, governance decisions and value realization plans.
- Provide guidance on simplification, standardization, analytics, automation, AI and innovation.
- Represent Asia-Pacific Region needs in enterprise and regional funding, portfolio and roadmap decisions to ensure in‑market priorities are appropriately weighted.
Demand Management, Portfolio Health & Governance
- Own Asia-Pacific Region business technology demand management, intake, prioritization and portfolio health across the full value chain.
- Partner with enterprise IT teams to ensure delivery commitments, risks, dependencies, resourcing and funding are transparent and actively managed.
- Lead business reviews and operating rhythms that drive prioritization decisions, trade‑offs, adoption and value realization.
- Establish metrics and dashboards to monitor service quality, technology performance and business satisfaction.
Commercial & Operational Enablement
- Enable digital sales, marketing, pricing, channel and customer engagement capabilities.
- Lead technology capabilities that improve inventory visibility, demand sensing, forecasting, replenishment, logistics performance and service levels.
- Partner with manufacturing, quality, engineering and R&D teams to modernize operational technology, product lifecycle and new‑product‑introduction capabilities in market.
- Improve visibility into growth opportunities, market performance, execution gaps, supply reliability and customer trends.
Localization, Harmonization & Enterprise Platforms
- Balance Asia-Pacific Region market needs with enterprise standards, scalable platforms and consistent data models.
- Support Asia-Pacific Region and market(s) localization requirements for language, regulatory, commercial, data and process needs.
- Drive adoption of enterprise platforms while simplifying local variation where possible, and partner with the Global Capability Center (GCC) to leverage shared engineering, data and operations capacity for in‑market delivery.
Data, Governance, Risk & Insights
- Deliver dashboards and analytics that improve decision‑making and feed regional and global reporting.
- Strengthen data quality, governance and accessibility in market.
- Ensure compliance with cybersecurity, privacy, data governance, SOX, quality, regulatory and enterprise risk expectations, including market‑specific requirements, and drive business continuity, resilience and secure‑by‑design adoption.
Financial & Value Management
- Manage assigned technology investments, forecasts, budgets and benefits realization commitments.
- Develop business cases and funding recommendations with clear trade‑offs, outcomes and return expectations.
- Provide transparency to cost, scope, timing, value and risk.
Talent, Change & Adoption
- Lead through influence across matrixed technology, business and supplier teams, and manage and develop technology talent.
- Build adoption plans, communications, training and business readiness approaches for major initiatives.
- Coach and develop talent while promoting accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
Separation & Standalone Readiness
- Own the Asia-Pacific Region technology dimension of separation and standalone readiness, ensuring end‑to‑end local demand, dependencies and risks are prioritized for Day 1 and Day 2 across the value chain.
- Partner with enterprise IT, the separation management office and business leaders to sustain continuity of business operations through the transition.
- Provide oversight of TSA execution and exit, ensuring commitments, timelines and risks are tracked.
- Balance standalone build decisions with enterprise standards to avoid fragmentation as the standalone operating model takes shape.
Qualifications
Education
- Required: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related discipline
- Preferred: Master's degree or MBA.
Experience and Skills
Required
- Minimum 12 years of experience in IT, digital transformation, operations, commercial technology, business transformation or related leadership roles.
- Minimum 5 years of leadership experience, including direct or matrixed leadership of cross‑functional teams, programs or portfolios.
- Proven experience acting as an end‑to‑end technology leader across multiple functions or as the primary technology interface for a country or market.
- Experience partnering directly with senior business leaders to shape priorities, investment decisions and market‑level outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing stakeholder demands, financial trade‑offs and delivery risks.
- Strong executive presence and credibility with senior business leaders, with excellent communication and influencing skills.
Preferred
- Experience operating in or leading technology for the Asia-Pacific Region market, including familiarity with local regulatory, data and business practice requirements.
- Strong MedTech, healthcare, commercial, supply chain, R&D, product lifecycle or operations acumen.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into practical digital roadmaps, portfolio decisions and measurable outcomes.
- Experience with CRM, ERP, PLM, analytics, business intelligence, AI, automation, digital product, collaboration and enterprise productivity platforms.
- Experience with global service delivery models including GCCs, shared services and managed‑services partnerships.
- Experience supporting large‑scale transformation, divestiture or operating‑model change, including TSA execution and exit.
- Strong judgment, risk management, financial stewardship and change leadership skills.
Other
- Travel: Up to 30 percent based on business needs.
- Language: Japanese and English business proficiency required.
- Willingness to work from a key DePuy Synthes Asia-Pacific Region location as determined by business requirements.
- Any offer of employment is conditioned upon successful completion of applicable pre‑employment requirements.
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Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.
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Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Business Architecture, Business Process Design, Business Savvy, Computer Programming, Emerging Technologies, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Leadership, Organizational Change Management, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Product Knowledge, Program Management, Software Development Management, Strategic Change, Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility
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