Velys Spine Clinical Specialist - Orthopedics

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Job Function:

MedTech Sales

Job Sub Function:

Clinical Sales – Surgeons (Commission)

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom

Job Description:

DePuy Synthes is the largest, most innovative and comprehensive orthopaedic and neurological business in the world. DePuy Synthes offer an unparalleled breadth and depth of products, services and programs in the areas of joint reconstruction, trauma, spine, sports medicine, neurological, craniomaxillofacial, power tools and biomaterials.

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. 

VELYS Spine Clinical Specialist |Johnson & Johnson MedTech | Orthopedics| United Kingdom

Role Purpose

The VELYS Spine Clinical Specialist is responsible for leading the clinical introduction, adoption, and optimization of VELYS Spine robotics and navigation across spinal units in the UK. 

Acting as the clinical expert and trusted partner to surgeons and hospital teams, this role ensures safe, effective, and consistent use of enabling technologies to drive improved patient outcomes and scalable commercial growth.

Key Responsibilities:

Clinical Introduction & Case Support

• Lead on-site Clinical launch and implementation of VELYS Spine systems into new centers
• Provide in-theatre case support, ensuring safe and effective use during procedures
• Guide surgical teams on workflow integration and best practice techniques
• Troubleshoot clinical and technical issues in real time

Training & Education

• Deliver structured education programmes for surgeons and theatre teams
• Provide hands-on training, in-service education, and product demonstrations
• Build clinical capability and confidence across all user groups
• Develop clinical champions and centres of excellence

Adoption & Utilisation

• Drive early adoption and sustained utilisation of VELYS Spine technology
• Support case planning, procedural optimisation, and pathway standardisation
• Monitor and report clinical usage, performance, and outcomes

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and maintain strong relationships with:
• Spine surgeons and clinical leaders
• Theatre and nursing teams
• Hospital management and digital stakeholders
• Act as the primary clinical liaison between customers and the internal team

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Medical Education teams to deliver account plans
• Support evaluations, bids, and new site activations
• Provide clinical insight and feedback to R&D and product teams

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Capture field insights to drive product and workflow improvements
• Stay current with robotics, navigation, and digital spine surgery innovations
• Contribute to the development of best practice pathways and clinical standards

Key Focus Areas

• Scalable robotics adoption across priority UK sites
• Consistent, high-quality clinical delivery and training
• Surgeon engagement and advocacy development
• Growth in robotic case volume and utilisation
• Establishment of centres of excellence

Skills & Experience

• Clinical background (e.g. ODP, scrub nurse, allied health professional or equivalent)
• Experience in spine, orthopaedics and enabling technology essential
• Strong understanding of surgical environment and workflows
• Excellent communication, presentation, and training skills
• Ability to work independently in a field-based, high-travel role

Success Measures

• Successful launch of new robotic sites
• Growth in robot utilisation and case volumes
• Positive customer feedback and advocacy
• Delivery of high-quality clinical training programmes
• Contribution to UK Spine business performance

What type of mark will YOU make? 

By joining Johnson & Johnson you will find boundless opportunities to craft your path & amplify your impact inside & outside our walls. And with our commitment to be the world’s healthiest workforce you can strengthen your body as well and your mind.  When you work at Johnson & Johnson you can touch over a Billion lives worldwide every day.  And when you apply your talent to our collective purpose there’s no end to the lasting impact we can make together. And that changes everything.

What’s in it for YOU ?  

It’s important to us that you feel you can bring your whole self to work; at Johnson & Johnson we provide an environment for you to fulfil your career aspirations as well as promoting your physical and mental wellbeing. As part of our offering, you will receive a competitive compensation and benefits package as well as benefits that can be tailored to what is valuable to you throughout different stages of your life. Examples of this include: online Digital GP, private healthcare, Retail Vouchers, Discounted & Subsidised Gym memberships and you can get to support community projects as part of our global Corporate Social Responsibility programme.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Business Development, Communication, Customer Centricity, Customer Retentions, Execution Focus, Healthcare Trends, Market Knowledge, Market Research, Presentation Design, Problem Solving, Sales, Solutions Selling, Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Sales Planning, Sustainable Procurement, Team Management, Vendor Selection