Sr. Manager, Business Development and Transactions Communications

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:

Communications & Corporate/External Affairs

Job Sub Function:

Product Communications

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

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

We are searching for the best talent to join our team as the Sr. Manager, Business Development and Transactions Communications. This role can sit out of our New Brunswick, NJ or Titusville, NJ office location on a hybrid basis (3 days in office).

Purpose

This role is responsible for crafting andimplementingg strategic, communication plans for IM BD, advancing the overall reputation of Johnson & Johnson as a leader and partner of choice for healthcare innovators, fueling and strengthening our Innovative Medicine pipeline. This role will be both internally and externally focused, leading day-to-day operational communications for IM BD. This individual will partner with the J&J IM R&D and External Scientific Innovation Communication and Therapeutic Area Communication teams to ensure all activities align and contribute to the J&J IM narrative, advancing the overall reputation of Johnson & Johnson.

External Communications Planning & Execution

• Responsible for developing, maintaining and driving communications plan and assets for IM BD, including, but not limited to:

  • M&A and divestiture deal press releases review and approval

  • Deal/project breakthrough communications

  • Overarching messaging on IM BD

  • Proof-points and impact/value story-telling

  • Executive messaging/briefings

  • Inernal messaging

  • Executive thought leadership

• Provide communications representation on External Innovation Playbook, CREDO in Action and other IM BD/communications working groups

• Implement and operate an agile communications model that adapts focus and resources based on business priorities across Business Development & Transactions communications and External Scientific Innovation communications

• Ensure alignment with J&J IM R&D and Therapeutic Area Communications teams

• Support consistent and compliant J&J IM BD communications by collaborating closely with external partners and aligning with internal enterprise functions (Global Media Relations, Investor Relations, Government Affairs & Policy and Office of the Corporate Secretary)

• Write and deploy communications supporting J&J IM BD to key internal partners

• Ensure completion of 360-degree amplification strategies

Internal Communications Planning & Execution

• Support IM BD quarterly town halls, All Hands Meetings, and other strategic internal meetings

• Provide content support to the IM BD internal newsletter and organizational announcements

• Amplify IM BD news via the IM R&D newsletter, HOME and other internal J&J channels

• Support IM BD employee engagement via the deployment of employee surveys and impact reports, measuring employee engagement and key message pull-through

Compliance, Management & Reporting

• Ensure all external communications content (e.g. press releases, key messages) is aligned with JJ IM and J&J corporate policies

• Submit and lead reviews of external speaking engagements, and ensure compliant content by routing key messages for review with relevant and required subj