Physician Program Director, Sierra Pacific

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 Med Tech, 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.

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Job Function
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Med Tech Sales

Job Sub Function
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Clinical Sales – Hospital/Hospital Systems (Commission)

Job Category
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Professional

All Job Posting Locations
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Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America;
Fresno, California, United States of America;
Sacramento, California, United States of America;
San Francisco, California, United States of America

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 Cardiovascular? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Cardiovascular team develops leading solutions for heart recovery, electrophysiology, and stroke. You will join a proud heritage of continually elevating standards of care for stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at

This is a field-based role. While specific cities are listed in the Locations section for reference, please note that they are examples only and do not limit your application. We invite candidates from any location to apply.

The Physician Program Director (PPD) focuses on establishing formal Impella programs through sustainable relationships with account stakeholders and key opinion leaders (KOLs) within the field of hemodynamic support.

The PPD is responsible for developing and managing strategic relationships with key opinion leaders, thought leaders, and subject matter experts to support the organization’s scientific, medical and commercial goals. This role ensures effective engagement, collaboration, and communication between the company and its network of experts to enhance brand credibility, education, and innovation. The PPD represents all aspects of Abiomed and acts as a field liaison to connect hospitals to internal resources such as the medical office, research, marketing, and executive teams.

The PPD will be responsible for collaborating with hospitals and hospital administrators to identify areas for program efficiencies through best practice implementation, protocol development, and workflow improvement, ensuring long-term program sustainability. The PPD will work to identify program gaps and align internal resources as appropriate to support the hospitals' goals. The PPD will collaborate with systems of care and Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) to support the implementation of best practices across the hospitals within the system.

• Develop and implement a comprehensive KOL engagement strategy aligned with brand and therapeutic area objectives.
• Develop sustainable relationships with designated accounts, health systems, key opinion leaders and stakeholders, to impact formalization of Impella programs and optimize outcomes.
• Understand hospital market dynamics, uncover gaps in operational efficiency and patient care, and deploy appropriate tools that will ultimately allow us to reach more patients
• Present complex health economic information to influential and diverse groups in a way that is engaging, credible, and easily understood.
• Advocate on behalf of heart recovery programs to health system administration & engage with hospital administrators to gain alignment on projects.
• Identify and develop new and emerging key opinion leaders through key customer visits, HQ executive programs, regional education courses and local programs
• Serve as a corporate liaison between Key Opinion Leaders, IDNs, Healthcare System leaders, and…