Senior Director, Head of Medical Communications & Scientific Exchange, Neuroscience

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We are searching for the best talent for Senior Director, Head of Medical Communications & Scientific Exchange, Neuroscience located in Titusville, NJ.

About Neuroscience

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 Neuroscience team tackles the world’s toughest brain health challenges including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, myasthenia gravis, epilepsy, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and autism. This patient-focused team helps address some of the most complex diseases of our time.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

The Senior Director, Head of Medical Communications & Scientific Exchange (MCSE), Neuroscience provides strategic leadership, direction and oversight for integrated medical communications and scientific exchange across the U.S. Neuroscience portfolio. The role translates Medical Affairs strategy into accurate, balanced, current and compliant scientific content and dissemination plans spanning marketed medicines, pipeline assets and launch readiness.

This leader is accountable for the strategy, operating model, talent and resource stewardship of the Neuroscience MCSE organization. The role connects scientific communications, medical communications, MSL communications, publications, congress content, external scientific engagement, medical education, data amplification and medical information interfaces to improve the quality, consistency, reach and usefulness of scientific exchange.

Key Responsibilities

Scientific strategy and portfolio leadership

· Lead the development and execution of an integrated scientific communications and content strategy aligned with Neuroscience Medical Affairs priorities, customer needs, evidence-generation plans and the product lifecycle.

· Provide portfolio-level leadership across mood disorders, schizophrenia and pipeline programs, ensuring scientific depth, appropriate therapeutic-area expertise and readiness for launches and key data events.

· Oversee high-quality scientific content that clearly communicates approved medicines, disease-state evidence, pipeline data and relevant technologies.

· Identify scientific communication opportunities, risks and capability gaps by integrating evidence, insights, healthcare-environment changes and business priorities.

Medical communications, scientific exchange and dissemination

· Drive medical communications, scientific communications, publication, medical information and data-dissemination activities across the Neuroscience portfolio.

· Oversee portfolio scientific-response content planning and development in partnership with Medical Information Scientific Engagement and other relevant partners.

· Partner with Field Medical leadership to develop and maintain high-quality MSL resources, including CORE assets, infographics and reactive slide decks.

· Provide strategic oversight for publications and scientific dissemination, including publication planning, U.S. scientific communications plan ownership and pull-through of new evidence.

· Guide medical congress content and execution, including medical booth assets, encores, sponsored scientific events and other non-promotional medical content.

· Advance medical education and data amplification through digital HCP platforms, social channels, publication extenders, headquarters communications and other approved channels.

Medical and promotional review, quality and compliance

· Ensure scientifically rigorous and timely medical review of externally facing medical and promotional materials in accordance with applicable legal, regulatory, healthcare compliance and company requirements.

· Oversee the quality, balance, traceability, currency and appropriate use of evidence across MCSE deliverables.

· Maintain awareness of evolving U.S. and global healthcare, regulatory, publication and medical-information standards, and translate relevant changes into team practices.

· Champion compliant innovation, including responsible evaluation and use of approved artificial intelligence and digital technologies with documented medical review and appropriate licensed evidence.

Capability building, digital innovation and impact measurement

· Build scalable content operations that support reuse of approved assets, structured content, metadata, version control and effective retrieval across approved systems.

Establish meaningful baselines and performance indicators for development time, review cycles, approved-content reuse, cost, scientific quality, content currency, field usefulness, engaged reach and learning value.

Develop team capability in AI evaluation, copyright, content structuring, omnichannel scientific communication, analytics and emerging scientific-exchange methods.

Use insights and analytics to continuously improve content strategy, channel selection, operating processes and resource allocation.

External scientific engagement and partnerships

· Develop and execute an external scientific engagement strategy aligned with U.S. Neuroscience Medical Affairs priorities, portfolio strategy and identified scientific exchange needs.

· Coordinate collaborations and partnerships with external academic institutions, professional societies, medical education partners and advocacy organizations in accordance with applicable company requirements.

· Oversee high-quality, non-promotional scientific exchange with external experts and healthcare professionals, including key opinion leaders and other relevant scientific stakeholders.

· Serve as a key Medical Affairs point of contact for Thought Leader Liaison and Speakers Bureau-related activities, with clear role boundaries and coordination across relevant governance processes.

· Partner cross-functionally with Field Medical, Medical Science Liaisons, Medical Communications, Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Medical Excellence and Global Medical Affairs to plan and execute scientific collaborations and partnerships.

· Establish approaches to evaluate the quality, relevance, execution and continuous improvement of external scientific engagement activities.

People, organization and resource leadership

· Lead, coach and develop a multidisciplinary organization spanning Medical Communications, Scientific Communications and MSL Communications, while fostering continuous learning, open exchange, accountability and inclusion.

· Attract, select, onboard and retain talent; create development and stretch opportunities; support succession planning and build future-ready capabilities.

· Clarify accountabilities and ways of working across MCSE, Medical Affairs, Field Medical, Medical Information, Global Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Commercial, Regulatory, Legal, Healthcare Compliance and external partners.

· Manage budgets, agencies, vendors and internal capacity to deliver high-impact work with appropriate quality, speed and stewardship.

· Represent Neuroscience MCSE on relevant Medical Affairs and enterprise forums and contribute to cross-therapeutic-area standards, talent development and best-practice sharing.

Requirements:

· Doctoral degree in a relevant scientific or healthcare discipline (MD, DO, PharmD or PhD). A master’s degree with substantial directly relevant experience may be considered

· 10 or more years of healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotechnology or medical communications experience, including significant experience in Medical Affairs, scientific communications, medical information, publications or an equivalent agency leadership environment

· At least 5 years of people leadership experience, including leadership of professional and/or managerial talent.

· Demonstrated success leading integrated scientific communications strategy and execution across multiple products, indications or lifecycle stages.

· Deep knowledge of medical communications, medical information, publication practices, scientific content development, medical review and digital technologies.

· Working knowledge of relevant publication and medical-education standards, including Good Publication Practice and applicable ACCME requirements.

· Proven ability to lead in a matrix, influence senior stakeholders, manage ambiguity, solve complex problems and translate strategy into execution.

· Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, with demonstrated scientific judgment and commitment to accurate, balanced and compliant communication.

· Demonstrated budget, vendor, agency and resource-management experience.

· Ability to travel domestically and, when required, internationally for scientific congresses, internal meetings and external engagements (25%)

Preferred Qualifications

· Neuroscience or psychiatry experience, including mood disorders and/or schizophrenia.

· Experience supporting pipeline programs, launch readiness and major scientific congresses.

· Experience with field medical enablement, MSL content strategy and insight-driven content planning.

· Experience advancing omnichannel medical education, content operations, structured content, analytics and responsible AI-enabled workflows.

· Demonstrated excellence in external scientific relationships and collaboration with healthcare professionals, investigators, authors and professional organizations.

This position is located in Titusville, NJ and follows a hybrid schedule of three days in the office and up to two days remote per week.

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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About Us

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/.

Our Credo calls on us to respect the dignity of every individual and create an environment for all people to thrive. Throughout the recruitment process - from application through hiring - we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations/adjustments for qualified candidates with disabilities. If you need support at any stage of the recruitment process, please complete our candidate accommodation request form so we can assist you.