DIRECTOR, LAUNCH EXCELLENCE (INNOVATIVE HEALTH)

Johnson and Johnson is recruiting for a Director, Launch Excellence (Innovative Health) located in Spring House, PA or Titusville, NJ.
Remote work options may be considered on a case-by-case basis and if approved by the Company.
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.
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The Innovative Health Engagement & Advocacy organization connects teams across development to novel capabilities and solutions, unleashing the potential of innovation to drive broader access to innovative medicines, and enrich the healthcare experience for all.
As the Director, within IHE&A, you will be responsible for deploying the value and adoption framework across an invigorating pipeline of innovative capabilities and solutions.
The identified leader will improve value delivery and foster long-term adoption of identified solutions.
This role ensures alignment of launch strategy and execution to drive efficiency; increase value socialization; consistency and best methods across a portfolio of dynamic capabilities within the IH innovation lifecycle.
The leader serves as a key partner to enable Global Development activation, value realization and acceleration, whilst creating the strategy for thought leadership.
In addition, they will act as an internal launch consultant to Global Development (GD), R&D, and beyond, bringing launch expertise to pressure test launch plans, elevate and amplify value stories, and drive maximized organizational adoption of new capabilities.
Key Responsibilities.
Build the foundation required to ensure consistency in approach to project launch excellence when engaging with GD partners and beyond, inclusive of value-driven onboarding plans, continuous improvement/feedback loop processes, and business success plans.
Establish a comprehensive internal engagement and communications framework that drives education and adoption of new innovative initiatives (discovery, strategy, storytelling, engagement, and analysis).
Elevate IHE&A storytelling and community building capabilities to ensure high engagement from GD, R&D, and partnered collaborators across the innovation lifecycle.
Establish content creation capabilities, templates and channel distribution strategy.
Capture and interpret internal and external insights, trends, and predictions.
Clearly articulate and communicate the vision of the IHE&A and how each initiative will transform the organization.
Be responsible for crafting, coordinating, overseeing, and providing guidance to the impacted teams throughout the innovation lifecycle to embed and embrace launch excellence strategy and tactics.
Create compelling initiative, project and portfolio-based narratives, value propositions, and comprehensive launch plans.
Monitor and analyze portfolio level value delivery, including organizational readiness, business satisfaction, adoption and activation.
Advance risk to portfolio level value realization, adoption and activation against plan, with proactive and strategic risk mitigation deployment.
Partner with the IHE&A Early Innovation team to identify industry trends on similar innovation initiatives, and craft the external thought leadership strategy to elevate Johnson & Johnson's reputation as the leader in transforming drug development.
Provide regular reports and updates to partners on project status, risks, and progress towards diversity goals.
Work closely with internal and external partners to cultivate relationships and support diversity initiatives.
Stay up to date with industry best methods, regulations, and guidelines related to diversity in clinical trials to help communicate key messaging across the organization.
Qualifications Education.
A minimum of a Bachelor's degree is required.
An advanced degree in Life Sciences, Communications, Business Management or a related field is preferred.
Experience and Skills.
10+ years of R&D project, process, capability and product launch strategy experience, including internal communication/marketing and organizational adoption is required.
Successful track record of driving successful small- and large-scale launch initiatives resulting in maximized value is required.
Strong understanding of clinical development process, associated partners and the external landscape is required.
Ability to work in partnership with key internal and external collaborators to align on new approaches to launch strategy and value framework is required.
Ability to influence and negotiate across a wide range of senior partners (i.
., functional area heads) is required.
Ability to provide strategic direction and guidance to ensure program launch health is required.
Ability to mentor, develop and educate teams is required.
Proven leadership that promotes motivation and empowerment of others to accomplish individual, team and organizational objectives is required.
Skilled & experienced in change management is required.
Expressed behaviors aligned with a collaborative and innovation mentality, embracing big changes, challenging the norm, embracing an agile and creative approach is required.
Ability to build positive relationships with key internal collaborators (e.
., IHEA, BGIA, GD) is required.
Excellent leadership skills with exceptional decision making, organizational and analytical skills, and the ability to lead through ambiguity is required.
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills as well as a proven ability to build and maintain positive working relationships and promote collaboration is required.
Experience in clinical development, clinical operations, or project management in large complex organizations is highly preferred.
Other.
This role may require up to 25% travel.
The anticipated base pay range for this position is $ to $.
The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs.
Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan.
The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year.
Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis.
Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs.
medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k).
Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits.
Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year.
Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – up to 56 hours per calendar year.
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year.
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year.
Additional information can be found through the link below.
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to.
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This job posting is anticipated to close on .
The Company may however extend this time-period, in which case the posting will remain available on https://www.
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Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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