Specialist, Hospital Operations - Spine ( Remote)

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About Orthopaedics

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 Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems.

Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

The Hospital Operations Specialist – Spine plays a critical role in advancing commercial execution, operational discipline, and field readiness across the Spine business. This position is responsible for partnering with Field Sales leadership, Supply Chain, Finance, and Hospital Operations stakeholders to optimize inventory deployment, improve asset utilization, and ensure the right instrumentation and implants are positioned to support procedural demand, customer commitments, and growth objectives. The role requires a strong balance of analytical capability, operational execution, and cross-functional influence, with responsibilities spanning inventory optimization, asset redeployment, trunk stock and PAR alignment, field issue resolution, data analysis, reporting, and support for new product introductions or field conversions. By translating operational data into actionable insights and driving disciplined execution across assigned geographies, the Hospital Operations Specialist helps reduce excess inventory, improve working capital efficiency, strengthen case coverage reliability, and enable scalable growth. This role serves as a key connection point between commercial strategy and field execution, ensuring business priorities are supported with clear processes, timely communication, and measurable operational outcomes.

•   Partner with Field Sales leadership to optimize inventory levels and support growth initiatives.
• Lead inventory optimization efforts including set balancing, trunk stock reduction, and PAR alignment.
• Drive asset redeployment initiatives including pullbacks, reallocation, and redistribution of inventory.
• Analyze inventory and financial data to provide actionable insights.   
• Support new product introductions and field conversions with proper asset allocation.
• Execute system transactions in SAP or equivalent systems to support asset movement.
• Manage field support requests and resolve inventory-related issues impacting case coverage.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Finance, and Operations.
• Support development of dashboards and reporting tools such as Power BI.
• Drive change management and adoption of inventory strategies.

   Education:

• Bachelor’s degree required (Business, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field)

   Required Experience & Skills:

• 4+ years in Hospital Operations, Supply Chain, or related field
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Cross-functional collaboration experience
• Ability to manage multiple priorities
• Strong communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Office tools

    Preferred:

• Medical device or healthcare experience with Spine business
• Inventory optimization or asset management experience

Key Competencies

·        Cross-functional partnership

·        Data-driven decision making

·        Continuous improvement mindset

·        Ownership and accountability

·        Ability to influence without authority

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