Group Product Director, KOL Strategic Engagement and Development, CAPLYTA

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Job Function:

Marketing

Job Sub Function:

Advertising & Promotions

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Group Product Director, KOL Strategic Engagement and Development, CAPLYTA®.  This position will be located in Titusville, NJ.

About Neuroscience

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.

Our Neuroscience team tackles the world’s toughest brain health challenges including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, myasthenia gravis, epilepsy, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and autism. This patient-focused team helps address some of the most complex diseases of our time.

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 Group Product Director, KOL Strategic Engagement and Development will serve as the centralized leader accountable for setting and executing the overarching KOL strategy across all CAPLYTA® indications (MDD, Bipolar, and Schizophrenia), developing new advocates, managing the a large speaker bureau, and creating content activated across all channels, Thought Leader Liaisons (TLLs), congresses, and peer-to-peer programs. This role will lead a team of three direct reports and serve as the single point of accountability for KOL strategy, content, and P2P across the brand. This position reports to the Director of Marketing, CAPLYTA®.

Key Responsibilities:

• Set the overarching KOL engagement strategy for existing advocates and develop a pipeline of new and emerging KOLs across all CAPLYTA® indications (MDD, Bipolar, Schizophrenia)

• Own end-to-end peer-to-peer (P2P) strategy, large speaker bureau management, and program optimization across all indications

• Create and curate content deployed through TLL field interactions, congress activations, speaker programs, and digital channels

• Lead congress strategy inclusive of booth presence, product theaters, roadshows, and executive KOL encounters

• Lead advisory board strategy focused on insight generation to inform content development, unmet needs, and clinical perceptions

• Drive TLL marketing content strategy, development, training, and field insight synthesis in partnership with the TLL National Director

• Synthesize KOL and field insights to inform brand strategy, competitive positioning, and co-positioning across the Neuroscience portfolio

• Ensure coordinated, customer-centric KOL engagement across the Neuroscience portfolio to maximize impact of peer-to-peer content

• Manage and develop a team of three direct reports: two Product Directors and one Product Manager

• Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders including Medical Affairs, Sales Leadership, Market Access, and Global Commercial teams to ensure strategic alignment

Key Competencies:

• Future-Oriented: Identify and understand future unmet needs in KOL engagement and medical education; demonstrate capacity for strategic thinking across multiple indications

• Intellectual Curiosity: Demonstrate learning agility; stay updated with evolving healt