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Job Function:
Marketing
Job Sub Function:
Product Management
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Irvine, California, United States of America, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
Job Description:
About Vision
Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.
Are you passionate about improving and expanding on the possibilities of vision treatments? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how vision is improved? Our Vision team solves the toughest health challenges. Help combine cutting-edge insights, science, technology, and people to encourage eye care professionals and patients to proactively protect, correct and enhance healthy sight for life. Our products and services address these needs – from the pediatric to aging eye – in a patient’s lifetime.
Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech
We are searching for the best talent for an Associate Director, Refractive & Ocular Surface Marketing to join our J&J Vision team. This position is based in Irvine, CA (preferred) or Jacksonville, FL.
Purpose:
The Associate Director, Refractive & Ocular Surface Marketing will lead the strategic direction, development, and execution of U.S. marketing initiatives across the Refractive and Ocular Surface Disease portfolios. This role is responsible for driving growth through integrated professional and consumer marketing strategies, shaping product messaging and evidence dissemination, and strengthening customer engagement across key eye care segments. The leader will serve as a critical interface between Global Strategic Marketing, R&D, Commercial Operations, and cross‑functional partners to ensure positive customer experience, optimize portfolio performance, and influence future innovation. This position plays a pivotal role in advancing J&J Vision’s mission to protect, correct, and enhance healthy sight for life by delivering impactful programs, tools, and insights that elevate customer experience and increase market adoption.
You will be responsible for:
- Develop and Lead US Marketing Plans
- Lead strategy and execution for all professional and consumer marketing initiatives.
- Lead all Sales support tools & asset creation
- In-office tools, assets, and programs
- Consumer campaigns and social media efforts
- Internal cross-functional collaboration & alignment for all initiatives, programs, and assets.
- Develop product messaging and claims, and work with Medical Affairs on supporting evidence dissemination.
- Partner with broader US Marketing team and Business Development on conference execution, booth initiatives, and associated PR/comms.
- Lead strategy and execution for professional and consumer for marketing initiatives.
- Lead Business Planning, Forecasting and Demand Planning Process.
- Determine integration and execution of portfolio messaging in conjunction with our cataract portfolio.
- Represent US market and help shape the OSD and Refractive portfolio for product development with key partners in GSM and R&D.
- Global Innovation Marketing lead for TearScience Portfolio, driving commercial launch excellence including positioning/messaging, customer targets, campaign development, and launch planning.
- Drive connectivity between JJSV and JJVC, for TearScience and Refractive portfolios.
- Commercial Operations - Lead life cycle actions and demand planning process by partnering with Value Stream and Supply Chain teams.
- Responsible for overall marketing budget, including resource allocation that is aligned to strategy.
Qualifications
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required, MBA preferred.
- 8+ years progressive business experience is required.
- 5+ years previous marketing experience is required.
- Experience working with Ophthalmology and/or Optometry is preferred.
- Experience as a people leader is preferred.
- Previous experience launching products is preferred.
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership, written and oral communication skills is required.
- Ability to reside local and work out of the Irvine, CA office (or reside local and work out of the Jacksonville, FL office) at least 3 days/week.
- Travel as needed for internal and external meetings/conventions is required (25%).
The anticipated base pay range for this position is $122,000 to $212,750.
The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis.
Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
• Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year.
• Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year.
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year.
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year.
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits.
This job posting is anticipated to close on 2/27/26. The Company may, however, extend this time-period, in which case the posting will remain available on https://www.careers.jnj.com to accept additional applications.
For more information on how we support the whole health of our employees throughout their wellness, career and life journey, please visit www.careers.jnj.com.
Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
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Required Skills:
Collaborative Leadership, Communication, Healthcare Leadership, Marketing, Operational Leadership
Preferred Skills:
Ophthalmology, Optometry, People Leadership, Product Launch Marketing
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$122,000.00 - $212,750.00
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