Director, R&D Team Effectiveness Center of Excellence

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:

Human Resources

Job Sub Function:

Learning & Instructional Design

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, 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 Director – R&D Team Effectiveness Center of Excellence position, to be located in Raritan, NJ; Titusville, NJ; Spring House, PA; Cambridge, MA; or La Jolla, CA.

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 Director for the Team Effectiveness Center of Excellence inside Innovative Medicine R&D is part of the Strategy, Portfolio, & Operations organization (SP&O). This role is an active leader in achieving the outcomes for SP&O’s Learning, Development, and Change Readiness strategic pillar: adaptable and empowered R&D teams and team systems, building individual capabilities to enable performance and development, and successful implementation and adoption of R&D transformation.

This role will be responsible for building team-level capabilities and leading the design, development, and implementation of comprehensive team development strategies that enhance team capabilities, team effectiveness, and team performance across Innovative Medicine R&D.

This role provides strategic leadership and oversight for the Team Effectiveness Center of Expertise inside Innovative Medicine R&D, ensuring alignment with R&D Goals & Objectives and driving excellence in operating model design, governance, and capability building. This role aligns team effectiveness approaches across several team and teaming constructs across J&J, Innovative Medicine, and R&D, and applies external research and evidence-based practices on team effectiveness and development.

This role drives adaptive teaming best practices across the organization, and leads the continuous evolution of team practices to support changes in drug development​ This role publicizes best practices, use cases & learnings across the various organizations & communities, and disseminates teaming practices owned by the CoE. This position will have accountability for the measurement of progress, outcomes & business impacts from teaming solutions and initiatives, as well as govern teaming standards & practices.

You will be responsible for:

• Strategy Development: Design and implement innovative teaming strategies that align with R&D and organizational objectives. Partners with leaders in R&D and governance committees to gain sponsorship and momentum for these strategies.
• Team Capability Program Management: Oversee the development, delivery, and evaluation of teaming programs to capabilities across R&D and IM Teaming ecosystems.
• Needs Assessment: Conduct regular assessments to identify needs and gaps in critical teams or teaming systems, ensuring solutions are adaptable and scalable to address these needs
• Partnerships: Establish partnerships with internal organizations supporting Learning & Development work across R&D, GCSO, HR, and Global Talent Management.
• Metrics and Analysis: Develop and implement metrics and dashboards to measure the effectiveness of teaming programs and overall impact on R&D performance
• Collaboration: Partner with senior leaders and HR teams to integrate teaming initiatives within major teaming systems and R&D talent and organiza