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:

Enterprise Management

Job Sub Function:

Commercial Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

J&J Innovative Medicine is currently recruiting for a Sr Director Commercialization Excellence based in Raritan, NJ.

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/. 

Overview of the role:

The Sr Director, Commercialization Excellence will be responsible for supporting strategy development throughout the development continuum including early development, registration, launch and in-market. The leader will also focus on building and strengthening organizational capabilities to maximize portfolio value, including defining product innovation opportunities for assets throughout the development timeline (from discovery to launch to end-of-life) to optimize the lifetime value of the asset and serve more patients.  

Additionally, this leader will lean into early development and pre-registration deliverables. They will champion a team of individuals to deliver commercial support under a single point of contact for a given TA. This leader will improve the experience for our colleagues by elevating cross-functional and regional collaboration.

This leader and their team members will collaborate with GCSO therapy teams, and R&D leaders and partner closely with Legal/IP teams/experts to identify and share novel approaches and best practices related to lifecycle optimization as part of the Asset Innovation Planning process and naming as part of generic name and trademark development

The lead will also be responsible for driving governance process and asset development in partnership with TA teams and R&D CDTLs. Lastly, this lead will continuously drive an insights-driven approach to the overall strategy.

Key remit of the Commercial Excellence team

Global Brand Strategy: Proactively partner with DAS teams to create an integrated Global Core Asset Strategy that incorporated products, from pre-launch through post-launch. Ensure commercial strategies are grounded in insights that address market needs in future competitive environments. Apply MarketingX best practices to help teams optimize and communicate asset potential in preparation for milestone investment decisions, long-range planning and business planning. Immersive work includes:

• Asset Innovation Plan creation to protect the value of asset innovation, including: indication evolution, posology, technology enhancements, formulations that address patient unmet needs.  This work is conducted in partnership with GCSO Marketing, Medical, Market Access, CMC, DPDS, IP Legal, Regulatory, etc.
• Marketing Shaping Plan creation, including validating asset bold ambition, issue identification and prioritization, leverage point identification and compliant metrics tracking.  This work is conducted in partnership with GCSO Marketing, Medical, Market Access, Advocacy, Communications and Key Regions etc.
• Asset Naming: Deliver naming best practice across assets in development​ through the support of generic naming and leadership of trademark creation and approval. 

Global launch planning: Collaborate with GCSO teams to build effective and innovative go-to market approaches for compliantly competitive and flawless launches. Ensure global launch readiness in all aspects of product development, from labeling and launch sequencing, to packaging and naming. Partner to champion well-coordinated global launch plans. Help prepare teams for governance reviews aligned to the Asset Development Plan.

Accelerate organizational capabilities: Modernize Marketing Excellence and Launch Excellence approaches and deployment for consistent utilization across GCSO teams to elevate in asset strategy creation to propel winning product launches.  Continue to identify build meaningful capability expansion within GCSO and in connection to the regions.

Critical capabilities:

• Strong commercial and business acumen with a preference for both global and regional experience to enable strong collaboration and credibility with key stakeholders.
• Highly proactive and collaborative with the ability to influence large matrix organization.
• Deep understanding of core TAs
• Inspirational leadership for cross-functional partners and direct team.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree is required
• MBA, JD or relevant advanced degree preferred.
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceuticals business is required.
• Understanding of drug development processes and commercialization is required.
• Understanding of pricing and access environment strongly desired
• Demonstrated track record of leading highly matrixed, cross-functional teams comprised of high-level managers and executives required.
• Demonstrated high learning agility and problem-solving capabilities required.
• Demonstrated track record of strong collaboration across geographies and functions, and strong communication skills required.
• Global mindset and proven ability to partner cross culturally/regionally required.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence required.
• Deep knowledge of J&J culture and portfolio preferred specifically in Oncology, Immunology and Neuroscience
• Travel of up to 10% Domestic and International

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.  The anticipated pay range is $173,000- $299,000.

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)).  This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.  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 of Work; Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year. Additional information can be found via the following link: https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Johnson & Johnson is an 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, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

 

 

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