Associate Director, Medical Communications

About the role

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

About Innovative Medicine

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 Oncology team is focused on the elimination of cancer by discovering new pathways and modalities to finding treatments and cures. We lead where medicine is going and need innovators with an unwavering commitment to results.

Key Responsibilities

• Will be the key contact for development and review of medical information content
• Leads the development, review and/or approval of medical information scientific response documents, including management of authoring vendor, monitoring customer/stakeholder needs to identify topics for new content, and oversight of innovative responses and omnichannel dissemination
• Conducts medical review activities, including review of promotional and medical materials
• Will review content & develop strategic concepts
• Provides medical guidance for development and review of promotional, medical, or sales training materials
• Participates in multidisciplinary therapeutic area teams to contribute to the functional strategic plan in support of the therapeutic area
• Leverages clinical knowledge and expertise to direct the review and identification of emerging trends and scientific intelligence, meaningful for each audience
• Champions VOC/insights by identifying unmet needs/gaps to drive impactful actions for medical affairs
• Will manage Medical Communications projects
• Leads new product launch/indication support
• Supports the development of tools and innovative approaches for creative delivery of information
• Champion AI capabilities to enhance scientific content planning and development
• Will develop teams’ therapeutic knowledge
• Guides initial and ongoing training of new hires and identifies opportunities for learning and development of the team to advance Medical Communications capabilities
• Collaborates with cross-functional partners to provide therapeutic area and product expertise

Qualifications

• Education: A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy is required. PharmD or PhD degree is highly preferred
• A Drug Information or clinical residency/fellowship is preferred
• Required: A minimum of 5 years of drug information/medical information or comparable experience within the health care/clinical/hospital environment is required
• Demonstrated ability to conduct literature analysis is required
• Experience developing responses to scientific inquiries from healthcare professionals and/or consumers is required
• Project management experience is required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required
• Strategic thinking and cross-functional collaboration are required
• Experience utilizing Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) is required

Preferred Skills

• Deep understanding of hematology/oncology products and diseases is preferred
• Proven creative problem solving and understanding of customer needs is highly preferred
• Demonstrated commitment to learning emerging technologies, such as AI, through exploration, iteration, and applying new tools over time is preferred