Executive Director / Senior Director, Translational Medicine Lead- Respiratory

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:

Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:

Clinical Development & Research – MD

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

US026 PA Spring House - 1400 McKean Rd, US064 CA San Diego - 3210 Merryfield Row

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 Immunology

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 Immunology team leads in the development of transformational medicines for immunological disorders and illnesses. You can influence where medicine is going by restoring health to millions of people living with immune diseases. 

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

We are searching for the best talent for an Executive Director / Senior Director, Translational Medicine Lead- Respiratory to be located at Spring House, PA, La Jolla, CA or Cambridge, MA.

The Executive Director / Senior Director, Translational Medicine (TM) Lead, Respiratory will be a program and experimental medicine leader in the Immunology Translational Science and Medicine (TSM) function. In this position, the Executive Director / Senior Director, TM Lead, will decisively contribute to accelerating the Immunology pipeline from portfolio entry to Proof-of-Concept (PoC). The role requires expertise in Respiratory Early Phase Clinical Development. The TM Leader will become part of the Respiratory DAS (Disease Area Stronghold) leadership team driving early phase strategy for the DAS.

The Executive Director / Senior Director of Immunology Translational Medicine (TM), Respiratory may have responsibility as a manager of Translational Medicine Program Leads (TMPL) within TM. This responsibility includes training and mentoring TMPLs (Associate Director and Director) who are accountable for developing early clinical development plans and executing clinical trials: from initial study design and continued monitoring and problem solving of trial execution to the analysis, interpretation, and communication of study results.  In this position the Executive Director / Senior Director will be accountable for providing an environment which encourages the company's commitment to equal employment opportunity and the value of a diverse work force, in ensuring that each report is supported in career and talent development goals.

This role will partner with TSM translational science and TM clinical science. In this leadership role they will be supported by other the senior leaders within the Translational Science and Medicine function, including the relevant disease area leaders (both in clinical development and translational science). Within TM, the Executive Director / Senior Director will be part of the leadership team with responsibility for creating and implementing organization initiatives. 

The position reports into a VP of Translational Medicine (TM). TSM is a group within the Immunology Therapeutic Area, consisting of Translational Medicine (TM) and Translational Science (TS).  TM has combined expertise in the clinical study of immunologic disease, immunologic pathways, and in early clinical trial design and execution. TS has expertise in biomarker development, disease biology research, and in the application of immunology and data s