Strategic Account Director, OTTAVA

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 smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.

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Job Function:

MedTech Sales

Job Sub Function:

Key Account Management – MedTech (No Commission)

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Remote (US), Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

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 the possibilities of surgery? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. Your contributions will help effectively treat some of the world’s most prevalent conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Patients are waiting.

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 a Strategic Account Director, Ottava.This is a field-based role available anywhere in the United States.

A pre-identified candidate for consideration has been identified. However, all applications will be considered.

Purpose:

The Strategic Account Director, OTTAVA is the strategic account leader responsible for system-level executive relationships and growth across a focused portfolio of the largest U.S. health systems. The role drives multi-site and multi-robot opportunities, helps OTTAVA teams navigate each IDN’s capital budgeting and strategic planning processes, and coordinates account execution across OTTAVA and relevant Johnson & Johnson MedTech partners.

This role has both a selling and an enabling mandate. The Strategic Account Director directly advances complex, system-wide opportunities and enables capital and clinical sales teams by providing enterprise account intelligence, activating senior stakeholders, removing barriers, and aligning local opportunities with the health system’s robotics strategy. The role serves as the senior OTTAVA account lead while creating a seamless, coordinated customer experience with U.S. Surgery Key Account Management and other J&J MedTech teams.

You will be responsible for:

Strategic account leadership

· Own the account strategy, stakeholder map, governance model, opportunity roadmap, and commercial outcomes for an assigned portfolio of strategically important health systems.

· Act as the senior OTTAVA spokesperson for assigned accounts, engaging from the system level to the local level and maintaining a complete view of the customer’s strategy, priorities, decision process, and capital roadmap.

· Build relationships with IDN C-suite leaders, strategy, finance, procurement, supply chain, capital and robotics committees, service line leaders, IT, robotics coordinator and other senior stakeholders required to advance robotic surgery programs.

· Develop account-specific knowledge of capital budgeting, strategic funding, approval pathways, committee requirements, and stakeholder influence patterns across for-profit, nonprofit, and academic health systems.

· Create multi-year account plans that connect customer priorities, local demand, robotic program strategy, capital timing, and expansion potential.

Strategic selling and deal leadership

· Drive multi-site and multi-robot sales and negotiations, with local capital representatives leading site-level activity and supporting customer-specific business cases.

· Quarterback strategic opportunities from lead qualification through purchase order, aligning awareness, advocacy, evaluation, negotiation, onboarding, utilization, and expansion activities across the account team.

· Help capital and clinical teams translate local demand into a system-wide clinical, operational, strategic, and financial case for investment.

· Enable capital and clinical sales by providing account intelligence, activating the right senior stakeholders, unblocking capital constraints, and aligning the selling approach to the IDN’s decision process.

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