Manager, Innovation Lead

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 jnj.com

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Job Function:

Strategy & Corporate Development

Job Sub Function:

Business Innovation & Integration

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for our Manager, Innovation Lead position to be located in Titusville, NJ or Spring House, 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

Purpose:

The Innovative Health (IH) Organization has been created to drive meaningful impact to participant health and wellbeing by reinventing the clinical trial experience. The Innovative Health organization connects teams across development to novel capabilities and solutions, unleashing the potential of innovation to drive broader access to innovative medicines, and enriching the healthcare experience for all.

The IH team is seeking an innovation leader who will be a forward-thinker, able to imagine and shape the future of clinical research and design and execute innovation demonstration projects to prepare J&J for this future. The candidate will understand the clinical research environment and a track record of successfully initiating and driving projects to completion. The candidate must be comfortable exploring new spaces where there is little or no experience or existing guidelines to follow. A global mindset with proven ability to partner cross-culturally and cross-functionally, to develop strong collaborations and to inspire trust across the organization and at all levels is essential.

The IH department reports into Global Development’s (GD) Business Growth, Innovation and Advocacy (BGIA) department and is dedicated to driving innovation into the clinical operating model to make clinical development faster and better for patients, investigators, Janssen, and the industry at large. IH’s approach is to learn through doing: we design and conduct innovation projects that generate knowledge about novel operational models, methods and solutions. Once proven valuable and feasible, we embed new operational approaches and technologies into Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines R&D with the goals of improving patient and site experiences, expediting drug development, and reducing overall costs. Our success comes by way of our entrepreneurial culture and teamwork.

You will be responsible for:

• Designing and executing agile innovation demonstration projects to evaluate effectiveness, viability and return on investment. These projects will identify and test novel approaches, processes, technologies and best practices that will create value for patients, have the potential to optimize trial recruitment, reduce trial set up and execution cycle times, and/or reduce cost.
• Collaborating with internal and external cross-functional teams to validate hypotheses.
• Be a thought and execution leader in technology projects, specifically in (Gen)AI driven enhancements and automations
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to execute the projects, develop project plans, set milestones, and monitor progress to ensure timely evaluation and decision making for launch.
• Generating conclusive results to support the business ca