Associate Director, Neuroscience R&D Precision Measures Strategy Integration Leader

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Job Function:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

R&D Project Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines is recruiting for an Associate Director of R&D Neuroscience Precision Measures Strategy Integration Leader to be located in located in Titusville, NJ, Raritan, NJ, Spring House, PA, Cambridge, MA, or La Jolla, CA.

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 Neuroscience team tackles the world’s toughest brain health challenges including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, myasthenia gravis, epilepsy, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and autism. This patient-focused team helps address some of the most complex diseases of our time.

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

To deliver Precision Medicines for Neuroscience requires building a data-driven strategy that integrates the deep expertise held collectively across multiple teams: regulatory, clinical development, discovery, biomarkers, statistics, data science, modeling and simulation. We believe that it is how we combine our collective strengths together that sets Johnson & Johnson apart. This outstanding leader will be a member of Neuroscience Precision Measures team, implementing large-scale programs that integrate diverse colleagues and capabilities scale strategic frameworks and drive programs delivering our precision neuroscience strategy. This role requires meaningful experience in pharmaceutical drug development and knowledge of how data science integrates along the pharmaceutical pipeline to drive value.

Key Responsibilities:

The candidate will support the execution and integration of strategy within the extended, cross‑functional Neuroscience team, helping translate strategic priorities into scalable frameworks, processes, and delivery plans. This role will partner closely with the Strategy Implementation Lead to enable consistent prioritization, coordination, and communication of impact across programs. The role will contribute to the integration and execution of strategy for key cross‑functional initiatives spanning the Neuroscience Therapeutic Area and functional partners, with a focus on Neuropsychiatry.

• Develop and execute Measurement Development Plans (MDPs) for future Neuropsychiatry programs.

• Ensure alignment between program‑level and disease‑level MDPs across Neuropsychiatry.

• Partner with Neuropsychiatry discovery teams to integrate measurement strategy and decision support into early programs.

• Lead focused sprints and modeling efforts to support key decision points, ensuring streamlining and acceleration of analysis efforts.

• Drive cross‑functional coordination across Precision Measures, Data Science, and functional partners to support execution and integration.

• Enable scale and adoption of frameworks, processes, and ways of working across ongoing programs