Senior Director, Site Enablement Leader, Oncology

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:

R&D Operations

Job Sub Function:

Clinical Trial Project Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

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.

Position Summary

The Senior Director, Site Enablement Leader, Oncology is accountable for driving optimal site performance and operational excellence across Oncology USA clinical trial delivery. This role blends strategic execution with country-level operational leadership to ensure high-performing sites that conform to J&J IM Oncology Research & Development (R&D) and Medical Affairs (MAF) priorities and regulatory requirements. The Site Enablement Leader fosters long-term, trust-based relationships with investigational sites, shapes the external clinical trial environment, and leads initiatives that significantly improve oncology site selection, contracting, activation, performance, and experience.

This leader will champion operational excellence, and organizational transformation, building high-performing, outcome focused teams; fostering strategic partnerships to advance the company’s mission and deliver impactful results for patients and stakeholders.

Reporting to the Vice President, Strategy & Clinical Delivery Operations, and serving on the Oncology Delivery Unit (DU) extended leadership team, this leader drives cross-functional collaboration to optimize USA oncology site experience and trial performance.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Site Engagement

• Develop and execute long-term strategies for site engagement aligned with J&J IM Oncology goals.
• Identify, segment, and manage Strategic Sites to optimize their experience, and trial delivery.
• Lead the development of site experience plans, including objectives, tactics, and performance metrics.

Operational Excellence

• Oversee site operational performance across all trial phases (feasibility to close-out), ensuring compliance with ICH-GCP, SOPs, and local regulations.
• Define and manage the key performance indicators that enable visibility to and improvement of site activation times across the USA Oncology portfolio.
• Lead operational issue escalation and resolution processes.
• Collaborate with internal teams to adapt processes that enhance site experience.

Leadership & People Development

• Provide strategic direction and mentorship to internal teams supporting site operations.
• Contribute to talent development, succession planning, and organizational design to meet evolving business needs.
• Foster an outcome focused culture of continuous impro