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 https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Strategy & Corporate Development

Job Sub Function:

Business Development

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for a Director, Launch Strategy & Execution Hematology to be in Titusville, NJ or Horsham, PA.

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow. Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

About Oncology

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Our Oncology team is focused on the elimination of cancer by discovering new pathways and modalities to finding treatments and cures. We lead where medicine is going and need innovators with an unwavering commitment to results. Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Our Team

The New Products and Business Development (NPBD) team is responsible for supporting the future growth of Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine (JJIM). We advance our promising pipeline by providing US commercialization strategy and execution, associated with new product launches, business development and alliance management across the JJIM portfolio.

Purpose: The Director, Launch Strategy & Execution Hematology is responsible for driving complex and high-profile product launches through robust strategic input and project management for US Integrated Strategy and Launch Readiness Teams. This position reports to a Therapeutic Area Lead (TAL) Sr Director, on the NPBD team.

You will be responsible for:

• Ensure connectivity, standardization, and best practices within JJIM therapeutic area launch strategies and pull through from strategy to execution.

• Serve as strategic launch advisors to Integrated Strategy Teams (ISTs) & Launch Readiness Teams (LRTs)

• Drives launch planning and ensures project plans are current and relevant; identifies gaps, risks, and potential impact to timelines.

• Regularly reviews status reports and tracks activities with Launch Readiness Team Leaders

• Owns governance (Launch Challenge Sessions & Launch Readiness Reviews) for Launch Readiness Teams leveraging the Launch Excellence guidance document, tools & resources.

• Advises launch readiness team members on Launch Excellence Framework resources and providing feedback to the Launch Excellence (LEX) Team.

• Creates and maintains all relevant project documentation, such as project plans, presentations, dashboards, spreadsheets, etc.

• Monitoring performance and driving continuous process improvement.

• Fostering a culture of collaboration and active participation by team members

• Ensure that common Launch Excellence activities are standardized leveraging best practices across therapeutic areas.

• Institutionalizes Launch Learnings: Harness and incorporate internal and external launch learnings for a continuous feedback loop

• Identify best practices and analogs for a knowledge management repository

• Identify any knowledge gaps in launches and close them for the organization

Qualifications / Requirements:

Education:

This position requires a minimum of a Bachelor's degree; a post-graduate degree is preferred. Professional project management (e.g. PMP), change management (e.g. ProSci), or Six Sigma (e.g. Green Belt) certification is preferred.

Experience and Skills:

• 10 years of experience in a commercial or R&D pharmaceutical field and a detailed knowledge of the drug development and launch process is required.

• Detailed knowledge of project planning, tracking, resource management, project planning, scheduling tools, and cross-project analytics is strongly preferred required. Examples are MS Project, Smartsheet, Planisware, and others.

• Launch experience is strongly preferred.

• Strong decision-making skills are required. Applicant must understand how and when to make informed choices, when to escalate issues, and understand how analyzed risks may affect the decision-making process.

• Applicant must be a self-starter, taking timely independent action in response to priorities in flux.

• Applicants must have strength and a track record of influencing and impacting others cross-functionally through strong leadership, collaboration, constructive challenge, and stakeholder change management techniques.

• Applicants must be comfortable and capable with conveying any message, quickly and easily, utilizing clear, positive, and persuasive communication (verbal and non-verbal). Written communications must be targeted to the audience, have logical flow, and utilize appropriate grammar and syntax.

• Strong presentation generation (e.g. PowerPoint, Prezi, Sway, etc.) skills as well as effortless delivery of presentations to various stakeholders, including senior leaders is required.

• Strength and track record in building coalitions and aligning strategies among diverse organizations is required.

• Applicants must have the ability to manage multiple large-scale initiatives simultaneously, triaging key priorities appropriately.

• Experience with visualization tools (e.g. Tableau) and business intelligence tools is preferred.

Other:

This position can be located in Titusville, NJ or Horsham, PA and may involve up to 10% travel as required to support project teams at multiple sites/locations.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson and Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$146,000 to $251,850

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs such as health insurance, savings plan, pension plan, disability plan, vacation pay, sick time, holiday pay, and work, personal and family time off in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans. Additional information can be found through the link below. Information on benefits can be viewed by following this link: https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits (https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits)