Associate Director, Medical Comms

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:

Medical Affairs Group

Job Sub Function:

Medical Writing

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

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/. 

Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, a division of Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies, is recruiting for an Associate Director, Medical Communications within the Medical Affairs (MAF) Neuroscience (NS) US Team located in Titusville, NJ/Bedminster, NJ.

The Associate Director, Medical Communications provides scientific knowledge expertise to author & review customer materials for use in response to unsolicited medical information requests, as well as review external customer materials for medical accuracy.

Key Responsibilities:

Will be the key contact for provision of Medical Communications – Develops and reviews scientific response documents in support of medical inquiries. Imagine new ways of engaging customers by identifying unique mediums for sharing data!

Will review content & develop strategic concepts – Provides medical guidance for development and review of promotional, medical, or sales training materials. Participates in multidisciplinary therapeutic area teams to contribute to the functional strategic plan in support of the therapeutic area. Leverages clinical knowledge and expertise to direct the review and identification of emerging trends and scientific intelligence, meaningful for each audience.

Will conduct in-depth data analysis – Monitors the medical literature for operating company products and competitor data; analyzes the information for accuracy/relevance and notifies key partners.

Will manage Medical Communications projects – Leads new product launch support. Develops tools and innovative approaches for creative delivery of information.

Will develop teams’ therapeutic knowledge – Provides initial and ongoing training of new hires and students/fellows. Supports sales training initiatives and actively partners with the Medical Information Scientific Engagement (MISE) team to help provide therapeutic area and product training and assist with analysis of voice of customer data to identify unmet needs/data gaps.

Imaginative problem solver - Willingness to learn new data and become an authoritative resource for groundbreaking clinical data and develop a deep understanding of Neuroscience products and diseases (severe mental illness, mood disorders, neurodegeneration).

Qualifications:

A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy or equivalent is required and a PharmD or PhD degree is highly preferred.

A Drug Information or clinical residency/fellowship is preferred.

At least 2 years of drug information/medical information or comparable experience within the health care/clinical/hospital environment is required.

Demonstrated ability to conduct literature analysis is required.

Experience developing responses to scientific inquiries from healthcare professionals and/or consumers is required.

Project management experience is required.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.

Critical thinking, a willingness to learn and grow, and cross-functional collaboration are required.

Experience using Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) is required.

Consistent creative problem solving and understanding of customer needs is highly preferred.

Other:

• This position is located in Titus