Senior Director, Scientific Communications and Publications

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 Affairs

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Director, Scientific Communications and Publications located in Raritan, NJ. 

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

The Senior Director, GMAF Scientific Communications and Publications, will provide impeccable leadership to their assigned team for the strategic planning and execution of Scientific Communications, Medical Content, and scientific publication/ dissemination strategies. The role requires oversight of quality and compliance in alignment with SOPs, best publication practices, and industry standard.  The Senior Director must maintain awareness of changes in healthcare and regulatory environments, benchmark against industry standards, and develop scientific plans and standard operating procedures (SOPs) aligned with business needs. Resource allocation and strategic alignment with business goals are critical, as is fostering strong relationships and maximizing financial and human resources within departmental budgets.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

In order of importance, briefly describe, in sentence form, the essential functions/major responsibilities of this position (principal duties and responsibilities of the position) as it exists today.  Describe the job, not the person in the job.  Each item listed below should be an essential function/major responsibility of the position, not a day-to-day activity.

Typically, job descriptions should contain no more than seven or eight major responsibilities ranked in order of highest percentage of time to least.

Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities

• Scientific Communications: Drive the build of scientific/medical communications strategies across Cardiopulmonary TA that provide the foundation for medical communications with relevant external audiences. Lead a team of direct reports to operationalize and execute on the plan to ensure a unified narrative to external stakeholders.
• Publications: Drive the generation and maintenance of the publications strategy. Ensure execution against the strategic plan including evidence dissemination activities. Be the face of Johnson & Johnson for publication committees, pub-related KOL engagements, academic institutions, and medical societies.
• Medical Content: Serve as the scientific lead for the Cardiopulmonary TA by providing scientific, strategic, and operational expertise for the development of clear scientific and medical content for approved medicines and pipeline products. Collaborate with Medical Science Liaisons to develop quality field content. Oversee Continuing Medical Education (CME) and conference planning/execution activities.
• People Leadership (Direct and Indirect): Provide people leadership to assigned direct reports including workload assignment and capacity management, professional development, and HR administrative responsibilities. Promote a team environment based in continuous learning and open exchange. Sponsor third-party vendors/consultants as necessary. Manage workload of assigned contractors/contingent labor according to contracted terms.
• Influence and Thought Leadership: Represent J&J in internal and external forums on Scientific/Medical communications, publications, and content. Collaborate with global, regional, and local Medical Affairs teams, Commercial, R&D, Legal, Compliance, and IT teams to support the development of applicable capabilities and pl