Director, R&D Data Science, MDM Products

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:

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:

Data Science

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine (J&J IM), a pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Director, R&D Data Science, MDM Products

This position has a primary location of Titusville, NJ but is also open to Spring House, PA or Cambridge, MA.  This position requires up to 25% travel. 

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 

Position Summary 

The Director, Product Mastering is responsible for establishing and governing an end-to-end mastering capability for product-related data, beginning with compounds in Therapeutic Discovery (TD), continuing through Preclinical Sciences & Translational Safety (PSTS), extending into Pharmaceutical Therapeutics Development & Supply (PTDS), and connecting seamlessly with clinical trial and regulatory data. This lifecycle mastering ensures continuity into commercial brand naming and labeling. 

This role ensures that product master data—including compounds, formulations, investigational products, clinical identifiers, regulatory submissions, and commercial brand hierarchies—is trusted, harmonized, and semantically consistent across the entire R&D to Commercial continuum. The Director will leverage ontologies and knowledge graphs to connect and contextualize product information across silos, enabling advanced analytics, AI/ML, regulatory compliance, and global interoperability. 

Key Responsibilities 

End-to-End Product Mastering Strategy 

• Define and execute a mastering strategy covering the full product lifecycle: from discovery compounds → preclinical entities → development products (PTDS) → clinical trial identifiers → regulatory designations → commercial brand names. 

• Ensure a single, authoritative source of truth for all product-related master data, harmonized across functions and systems. 

• Identify gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for automation, external data partnerships, and standards alignment. 

Ontology & Knowledge Graph Development 

• Lead the development and governance of a Product Ontology that links compounds, formulations, regulatory identifiers, and brand entities. 

• Apply knowledge graph technologies to connect product data across TD, PSTS, PTDS, clinical, regulatory, and commercial domains. 

• Align ontology and graph models with enterprise metadata standards and external frameworks  

Governance & Standards 

• Establish stewardship, ownership, and governance models for product master data across R&D and Commercial.