Senior Director, R&D Strategy Portfolio Management, Portfolio And Operations

Janssen Research and Development, L.L.C., a member of Johnson and Johnson's Family of Companies, is recruiting for a Senior Director, R&D Portfolio Management, Strategy, Portfolio & Operations to be located in New Brunswick, NJ.

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Position Summary

The Senior Director, R&D Portfolio Management will lead a high performing Portfolio Management group within the Janssen R&D Strategy, Portfolio & Operations (SP&O) department to provide transparency and drive decision making around Janssen R&D Portfolio. Janssen R&D is an organization of 11,000 people with an operating budget of $8B, which includes JRD Therapeutic Areas (Cardiovascular/Metabolism/Retinal, Pulmonary Hypertension, Immunology, Infectious Diseases/ Vaccines, Neuroscience, Oncology) and JRD Global Functions.

Reporting to the Global Head, Janssen R&D Strategy, Portfolio & Operations (SP&O) Group, the role will be responsible for developing and providing portfolio analyses and strategic insights to proactively address senior management business questions and guide investment decisions in R&D. In partnership with the broader SP&O organization, this position supports the Global Head, Janssen R&D SP&O and other senior leaders in developing strategic frames and business cases to support senior leader decision making, including R&D Senior Leadership Team (SLT), R&D Portfolio Scientific Sub Committee, Group Operating Committee (GOC), Executive Committee (EC), Investment Committee (IC) and J&J Board of Directors (BoD).

This position will also partner closely with Finance, Therapeutic Areas & Functional Strategy and Operations Support Leaders (SOSLs) in R&D and with the Global Commercial Strategy Organization (GCSO) to facilitate discussions and provide insights for critical R&D business processes, such as Development portfolio prioritization, Portfolio Tiering, Disease Area Stronghold (DAS) strategy reviews, and Business Plan/Long Range Financial Plan (BP/LRFP) processes. Finally, this position will collaborate seamlessly across the various departments in R&D, including Global Development, Discovery & Product Development, Global Regulatory Affairs, Data Science & Digital Health to ensure that information used for decision making is accurate while minimizing organizational efforts.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Global Head, Janssen R&D Strategy, Portfolio & Operations and broader Janssen R&D SP&O team to provide transparency and insights on R&D Portfolio matters and drive proactive decision making.
• Ensure clear and consistent communication of the Janssen R&D Portfolio accomplishments to multiple stakeholders including R&D Leadership, J&J Stakeholders & Governance Committees. Consolidate input from across the therapeutic areas and functional areas to ensure that all views are represented. Integrate input from functions in R&D and J&J outside of R&D: Innovation Centers, GCSO, Finance and others and provide a comprehensive view of R&D Portfolio accomplishments.
• Act as a strategic partner to Janssen R&D senior management, portfolio leaders, governance committee and project teams by providing portfolio insights, judgment and an enterprise view of the portfolio to enable effective investment decision making.

• Serve as the decision support leader for the R&D Portfolio Scientific Sub Committee. Develop & communicate views of the end to end portfolio that will enable senior leaders to have a one R&D voice on Portfolio matters.

• Partner closely with Finance, Therapeutic Areas & Functional Strategy and Operations Support Leaders (SOSLs) in R&D and with the Global Commercial Strategy Organization (GCSO) to facilitate discussions and provide insights for critical R&D business processes, such as Development portfolio prioritization, Disease area strategy reviews, etc.

• Lead R&D benchmarking analytics including collection, analysis and translate insights into recommended business actions to senior leaders in digestible simple messages.

• Bring critical insights to senior leaders and investor relations Investors Relations and other Sr. Leaders for communication to the external world on portfolio, R&D productivity, and operational excellence.

• Lead the design & implementation of a scalable approaches to support R&D portfolio reporting & analysis activities.

• Implement mechanisms to enable broader organizational knowledge sharing and breaking down of siloes.

• Gain and incorporate deep external insights on the long-term view of healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry. Expertly manage and interact with external entities such as management consulting firms and subject matter experts.
• Develop, coach and engage direct reports, and build a diverse bench strength for the future. Proactively manage team workload and ensure all team members are optimally utilized.
• Anticipate and lead the organization into next level of future portfolio analytics and act as a change agent in enabling the organization to improve on data capabilities including quality

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech R&D environment
• Highly skilled strategist with proven analytical skills and affinity with complex data sets, with pharmaceutical sector experience or experience of close working with the pharmaceutical sector
• An advanced degree in science or business discipline is required
• Proven expertise at working within complex (preferably global) matrix environments
• Demonstrable success as a thought-partner to senior stakeholders and a trusted advisor/challenger to business leaders is required
• Proven track record in project & Portfolio Management and strong analytical background/data handling with business consultancy is required
• Track record of effective and trusted partnership with internal and external stakeholders
• Recognized as having in-depth knowledge of the R&D process and credibility within the Pharma R&D industry
• Strong knowledge of the drug discovery and development process
• Demonstrated ability to lead others through direct reporting and/or matrix to deliver outstanding results
• Ability to translate data into information and strategies into executable action plans
• Travel requirement of 10% domestic and global

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $163,000 to $282,900 .

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.

Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs such as health insurance, savings plan, pension plan, disability plan, long term incentives, vacation pay, sick time, holiday pay, and work, personal and family time off in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans. Additional information can be found through the link below. For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

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