EMEA MAF Strategic Programs Lead

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:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

Project/Program Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Diegem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

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

We are recruiting for a EMEA Medical Affairs Strategic Programs Lead, to be based in EMEA.

The Lead MAF Strategic Programs EMEA works directly with the Head of Medical Affairs EMEA. This role is responsible for shaping strategy, identifying priorities, and leading complex programs and large-scale projects across all Therapeutic Areas and functions of EMEA Medical Affairs with a special focus on ESO.

Key responsibilities include:

• Shape and lead development of strategic planning for EMEA and ESO MAF.
• Assess business and identify-prioritize strategic improvement efforts.
• Lead and manage high impact, high visibility projects.
• Identify synergies and leverage opportunities across Medical Affairs teams, partnering with other functions and regions to drive results.
• Highlight key business issues and collaborate with Medical Affairs leaders to identify and implement strategies and solutions.
• Act as a PMO of the EMEA Medical Affairs Leadership Team (EMALT).
• Work together with the Head of Medical Affairs in preparing strategic presentations, reports and recommendations to be presented/shared in leadership audience.
• Collaborate with Global and Local teams to ensure coordinated efficiencies and seamless bridge on critical new capability for Johnson & Johnson.

Required Minimum Education:                                            

Advanced business degree preferred

Required Years of Related Experience:      

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare or related industry is required.
• Project management skills are required.
• Ability to plan and tightly manage the scope of multiple important projects while balancing multiple stakeholders with differing needs is required.
• Ability to drive projects forward to completion.
• Experience in strategic planning, business planning and cross-functional collaboration and alignment.
• Global approach with proven track record to partner cross culturally and regionally.
• Proven experience in getting results in a highly complex and rapidly changing environment is required.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong knowledge of healthcare compliance principles and local/regional regulations and laws is helpful.
• Business experience with solid business acumen (previous experience leading P&L is desired).
• Experience in Medical Affairs is helpful
• Strong experience in building strategic recommendations

Other EMEA locations are considered, as long as you can ensure closeness to one of our commercial offices in the EMEA region.