Senior Director, Partnership Management

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:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

R&D Project Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson -- 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

Position Description:

This role is critical in driving the successful delivery of a dynamic R&D portfolio by leading and managing the Partnership Management team, ensuring productive and effective partnerships with Global Development’s external suppliers. These partnerships will cover a range of services, including but not limited to clinical trial execution, lab services, home health, digital health and flexible staffing services (biometrics and trial management). The Senior Director, Partnership Management will be a key member of the Global Development Business Operations and Partnerships leadership team and serve as a key connector between internal stakeholders and their relevant external counterparts at the supplier/partner for 1 or more categories. The incumbent will champion their external partners and be a representative and spokesperson for Johnson & Johnson. This Senior Director will report to the VP, GD Business Operations and Partnerships and will work closely with members of Partnership Infrastructure and Partnership Accountability, as well as key functional and business leaders to enable an effective and impactful partnership management organization.

 

This position is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the overall partnership management team, influencing broader GD and R&D leaders, driving innovation, and ensuring adherence to all regulatory and company standards. This position is also accountable for executing fit-for-purpose governance and oversight to the relationship and performance of the suppliers/partners in scope. Their leadership will also ensure their Partnership Management organization follows clear principles and strategy, goals and objectives, works with an enterprise mindset, optimizes existing relationships and constructs, develops and proactively pursues new relationship(s) to meet the portfolio needs in close partnership with the involved functions.  Stakeholders include, but are not limited to GD, Finance, R&D Procurement, R&D Quality, and other J&J Innovative Medicine leadership to meet the short-and long-term deliverables defined by the business, maximizing value of our supplier alliances and ensuring delivery of the development portfolio. 

Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

·         Leading Partnership Management: Be an effective people leader for a diverse and globally distributed team, providing oversight, coaching, mentorship, steer and consistent ways of working.  Develop and drive an organizational structure that enables optimization of category allocation, remits and accountabilities across the collective Partnership Management team.  Proactively manage and grow partnerships impact to e