Jobs at Smith & Nephew

Leads a strategic portfolio of technology programs and projects, overseeing planning, budgets, schedules, risks, dependencies, governance, compliance, and business outcomes. Manages and coaches Project Managers and coordinates cross-functional IT, business, and external teams. Drives stakeholder communication, change management, resource planning, financial control, quality adherence, and continuous process improvement across a global, regulated environment.

Supports the global Business Continuity and Resiliency Program by facilitating business impact analyses, risk assessments, continuity plan development, reviews, training, exercises, governance reporting, and emergency notification system administration. The role collaborates across disaster recovery, enterprise risk, HSE, supply chain, facilities, and communications teams, and provides support during significant incidents and crises. Global travel is required at less than 10–15%.

Leads large-scale operational excellence and manufacturing transformation across Hull and Melton sites. Defines multi-year transformation strategy, embeds lean management systems, improves performance against business metrics, develops leadership capability, and drives sustainable cultural change. The role advises senior leaders, coaches teams, establishes operational excellence frameworks, and delivers measurable improvements in efficiency, quality, customer satisfaction, and growth across legacy and newly built manufacturing facilities.

Support manufacturing projects including root-cause analysis of defects, data collection and trending, measurement and verification testing, material disposition, equipment setup/validation, process improvements, and applying basic lean principles. Collaborate cross-functionally, present results to leadership, and assist in implementing corrective actions to improve manufacturing efficiency.

Manage customer dispute resolution within the order-to-cash function, ensuring documentation, communication, tracking, compliance, and timely escalation. Analyze root causes, coordinate permanent fixes, maintain customer data and operational documentation, perform quality checks, deliver training, report statistics and risks, and implement process improvements. Collaborate with Sales, Customer Service, and other departments while supporting customer satisfaction and query resolution.

Provide clinical and training support for orthopaedic and endoscopy products in hospital settings, support surgical procedures, manage clinical training schedules, maintain surgeon preferences and customer profiles, and collaborate with the state sales team to meet business objectives.

Lead planning and delivery of a world-class manufacturing facility readiness and transfer program. Manage cross-functional teams, project governance, budgets, schedules, risks, validation, staffing, and operational readiness to ensure delivery within scope, schedule, and budget while maintaining quality and compliance.

Account Manager role with limited responsibilities provided. The posting primarily directs candidates to the company’s talent community, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and website for information about the organization, culture, and opportunities.

Provides clinical and product support for CORI robotic orthopedic technology across the Sydney territory. Covers surgical cases, trains surgeons and hospital staff, manages customer preferences and case compliance, supports logistics and operating efficiency, monitors market trends, reports clinical and marketing activities, and promotes adoption of knee and hip arthroplasty products.

Supports sports medicine product development from concept through launch, including mechanical design, prototyping, verification and validation testing, design controls, risk assessments, usability documentation, and design transfer. Collaborates with manufacturing engineers, suppliers, surgeons, marketing, and sales. Also develops biomechanical and mechanical testing methods, supports intellectual property activities, and evaluates competitive products and performance.

Leads Smith+Nephew’s regional robotics business by managing robotics clinical and sales teams, driving CORI adoption, executing commercial strategies, developing talent, and achieving revenue and utilization targets. Partners with sales, marketing, medical education, finance, operations, surgeons, and health systems to support customer retention, technology conversion, and business growth. The role also oversees recruiting, succession planning, compliance, and extensive field engagement across the assigned geography.

Leads Smith+Nephew’s global software procurement strategy across enterprise applications, SaaS, digital platforms, and AI-enabled technologies. Manages value creation, supplier negotiations, governance, risk, software optimization, and strategic stakeholder partnerships. Serves as Procurement’s AI Champion and leads, coaches, and develops category management talent while advancing AI-enabled procurement capabilities and responsible technology sourcing practices.

Leads the global OT cybersecurity program across a manufacturing network. Defines governance, manages cyber risk, provides technical oversight, aligns environments with IEC 62443 and NIST frameworks, and embeds security by design into OT projects. Coordinates incident response for OT security events and partners with cybersecurity, IT, engineering, and manufacturing stakeholders to support secure modernization while maintaining operational continuity. Develops team capability and drives consistent cybersecurity practices across global sites.

The job description provides no specific responsibilities or qualifications. It refers applicants to the company’s Talent Community, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and website for information about its culture, mission, opportunities, and benefits.

Lead commercial growth for ENT across Central & Eastern Europe via distributor management, market expansion, clinical engagement, forecasting, KPI governance, and cross-functional collaboration. Drive sales targets, train distributor teams, build KOL and hospital relationships, identify new markets and translate clinical insights into commercial opportunities.

Leads global ERP security, access governance, segregation-of-duties controls, and SOX ITGC compliance across SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, and Microsoft AX. Oversees security architecture, roles and authorizations, GRC tools, audits, risk remediation, control frameworks, and license optimization. Partners with architecture, audit, compliance, and cross-functional teams while supporting SAP transformation initiatives and continuous process improvement.

Manages sales and business development for an assigned territory, builds relationships with surgeons and nurses, attends surgeries, promotes wound care products, meets sales targets, manages distributors, books retailer orders, collects payments, maintains customer data, and submits reports. The role requires extensive outstation travel and surgical-sector experience.

Design, develop, test, and deploy AI-powered features and tooling for the CORI robotic surgery platform using ML, generative AI, computer vision, and AI-assisted developer tools. Build integrations, services, APIs, automation, and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring cybersecurity, privacy, quality, and regulatory compliance. Collaborate on architecture, prototyping, evaluation, deployment, and continuous improvement across robotic software and cloud systems.

Develop software for robotic and computer-assisted surgical systems. Design, document, and execute tests focused on performance, reliability, and safety; prototype solutions improving accuracy and usability; collaborate with engineering, clinical, and research teams; and solve complex technical problems across projects.

The Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist leads regulatory submissions, develops strategies for HCT/P and device-biologics projects, ensures compliance with FDA regulations, and collaborates with cross-functional teams.