Senior Director, Global Head of Medical Communications & Scientific Exchange

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, Global Head of Medical Communications & Scientific Exchange located in Raritan, NJ. 

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The Senior Director, Global Head of Medical Communications & Scientific Exchange (MCSE) is accountable for defining and implementing clear processes and standards for MCSE planning and development, worldwide.  This role will own and maintain the end-to-end Global Medical Content Framework, ensuring Medical Content Plans are implemented. The candidate will also be accountable for the Medical Content archiving strategy and execution. This role will elevate MCSE capabilities by establishing and training the MAF organization on MCSE principles and content style guides, ensuring clear, succinct, and engaging MAF deliverables.

The Senior Director will enable the pull-through of Core Asset Themes and Medical Affairs Strategies into Medical Content and Scientific Exchange deliverables.  The Senior Director will collaborate closely with partners within the Global Medical Adoption team and directly with Global Medical Affairs Leaders and Strategy and Execution Leads across the portfolio. In addition, the candidate will work with content authors in regional medical affairs teams. This role will also work with external vendors to standardize medical content. This role will institutionalize learnings: Harness and incorporate internal and external insights on MCSE capability usage for a continuous feedback loop; Identify best practices and analogs for a content management repository; Identify any knowledge gaps and close them for the organization.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

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Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities

The Senior Director, Global Head Medical Communications & Scientific Exchange is accountable for defining and implementing clear processes and standards for Medical Communication and Scientific Exchange planning and development, worldwide.  A key component of this is the identification of opportunities to standardize and harmonize MCSE activities around the world. This includes (but is not limited to):

• Owning and maintaining the end-to-end Global Medical Content Framework, ensuring Medical Content Plans are implemented, and accountability for the Medical Content archiving strategy and execution.
• Streamlining and clarifying ways of working to deliver MCSE outputs
•  Elevating the quality of Medical Content, Medical Education programs, and Med Info letters.
• Establishing and training the MAF organization on key principles, style guides, and best practices that ensure clear, succinct, and engaging MAF deliverables.
•  Enabling the pull-through of Core Asset Themes and Medical Affairs Strategies into Medical Content deliverables.

 The Senior Directo