Senior Director External Innovation DPDS

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:

Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:

Multi-Family Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development – Pharm

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

San Diego, California, United States of America, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Research & Development is recruiting a Senior Director External Innovation, DPDS (Biologics Modality Focused), located in either San Francisco or San Diego

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 the role
As the molecular invention and product development engine of Research & Development for J&J Innovative Medicine, Discovery, Product Development and Supply (DPDS) aims to unlock the potential of the most promising disease targets and drug candidates, regardless of source, stage, or modality, to discover, develop and deliver transformational medicines for patients.

Within DPDS, the External Innovation team is now looking for an extraordinary Senior Director who is passionate about taking a leadership role to identify, shape, onboard, and nurture external partnerships that support the DPDS innovation strategy.

You will be a senior member of the Global External Innovation Team DPDS with overall strategic and operational responsibility for scouting and evaluation of external opportunities in the West North America (WNA) region with a particular emphasis and deep expertise in biologic modalities (antibodies, recombinant proteins, cell and gene therapy, oncolytic viruses, coding nucleic acids). You will need to have strong business acumen  and the ability to understand the DPDS overall innovation strategy and how it connects to the TA’s strategic priorities. You must also have the necessary experience and scientific imagination to recognize early stage innovation that has the potential to significantly improve patient outcomes in the future

The expectation is that this leader will - as proactive discussion partner for the TA representatives in the broad WNA region- take the lead to optimize the DPDS / TA interface in order to deliver against our current and future portfolio of therapeutics. You will also support global External Innovation Team DPDS with local scouting and transactional support in collaboration with sourcing and activation functions.

Your Responsibilities would include, but are not limited to the following:

• In partnership with your local synthetic modalities counterpart lead the WNA component of the advancement of external technological innovation within DPDS in alignment with strategy and in support of the vision of Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicines
• Work closely with the rest of the Global DPDS EI team to bring innovation opportunities from the WNA region into a  global view and help to assess the science to choose the best opportunities to move forward independent of geography
• Present to senior stakeholders on science and technology explaining strategic alignment and acting as a champion whilst keeping a strong eye on the data to