Director, R&D Data Science & Digital Health, Immunology and Rare Disease

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:

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:

Data Science

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine Research & Development LLC, a Johnson & Johnson company, is recruiting for a Director, R&D Data Science and Digital Health (DSDH) Immunology and Rare Disease. Is this person you? If it is, you will report to the Senior Director, R&D Data Science and Digital Health, Immunology and Rare Disease. The primary locations for this position are Cambridge, MA, Spring House, PA or Titusville, NJ.

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine develops treatments that improve the health of people worldwide. Research and development areas encompass oncology, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders, immunology, pulmonary hypertension, retinal disorders, and neuroscience. Our goal is to help people live longer, healthier lives. We have produced and marketed many first-in-class prescription medications and are poised to serve the broad needs of the healthcare market – from patients to practitioners and from clinics to hospitals. To learn more about Janssen, one of the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, visit https://www.janssen.com/johnson-johnson-innovative-medicine.

Who We Are

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.

Position Summary:

• Contribute to the design and execution of a Data Science & Digital Health (DSDH) strategy in alignment to the Immunology Therapeutic Area (IMM TA) goals and objectives
• Partner with DSDH colleagues and the IMM TA to define and prioritize a portfolio of innovative medicines in development in alignment with the IMM TA strategy

To successfully meet these objectives, this individual will work closely with individual clinical project teams as well as functional area partners in Discovery, Late Development, Regulatory Affairs, Epidemiology, Market Access, Medical Affairs and other relevant functions.

Responsibilities:

DSDH related activities:

• Provide strategic input into the Immunology R&D DSDH priorities ranging from individual projects to large collaborations with internal functional areas and external institutions
• Identify viable data science and digital health opportunities and then conceive, develop and implement end to end study design and data analytical solutions. A specific example may include working with the Disease Area Stronghold (DAS) Leaders and Compound Development Teams (CDT) to develop the RWE DSDH strategy to improve early and late phase clinical study designs by supporting novel patient identification/ selection of end points (e.g., identification of at-risk patient populations through development of novel predictive algorithms)
• Serve as a key liaison to functional area partners and provide support for collaborations with DSDH, Epidemiology, and other internal functional areas to assure alignment on key DSDH programmatic goals aligned with the Immunology therapeutic area

• Execute the DSDH  strategy across a matrixed cross-functional CDT and the Clinical Team,
• Provide strategic leadership on managing/addressing specific project/program-related issues and presenting to and negotiating with leadership teams on development plans or program-related issues.
• Participate in and may lead cross-functional teams for evaluation of new scientific opportunities, disease areas, product ideas, implement franchise business strategies, etc.
• Provide key input into diligence activities
• Participate or lead cross-departmental or cross-functional projects with broad Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine impact
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