Johnson & Johnson · 1 day ago
Director, R&D Data Science & Digital Health, Immunology RWE
San Diego, California, United States of America
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$164K/yr - $283K/yr
8+ years expJohnson & Johnson is a leader in healthcare innovation, dedicated to improving health outcomes for patients. They are seeking a Director for R&D Data Science and Digital Health to contribute to the Real World Evidence strategy in Immunology, collaborating with cross-functional teams to align innovative medicines with therapeutic area goals.
Hospital & Health Care
Responsibilities
Provide strategic input into the Immunology R&D DSDH RWE priorities ranging from individual projects to large collaborations with internal functional areas and external institutions
Identify viable data science and digital health opportunities and then conceive, develop and implement end to end study design and data analytical solutions. A specific example may include working with the Disease Area Stronghold (DAS) Leaders and Compound Development Teams (CDT) to develop the RWE DSDH strategy to improve early and late phase clinical study designs by supporting novel patient identification/ selection of end points (e.g., identification of at-risk patient populations through development of novel predictive algorithms)
Serve as a key liaison to functional area partners and provide support for collaborations with DSDH, Epidemiology, Discovery and other internal functional areas to assure alignment on key DSDH programmatic goals aligned with the Immunology therapeutic area
Execute the DSDH RWE strategy across a matrixed cross-functional CDT and the Clinical Team
Provide strategic leadership on managing/addressing specific project/program-related issues and presenting to and negotiating with leadership teams on development plans or program-related issues
Participate in and may lead cross-functional teams for evaluation of new scientific opportunities, disease areas, product ideas, implement franchise business strategies, etc
Provide key input into diligence activities
Participate or lead cross-departmental or cross-functional projects with broad Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine impact
Author abstracts and scientific manuscripts for publication based on clinical trial data, real-world data, observational studies etc
Build credible relationships with opinion leaders and may act as company spokesperson regarding publication of research findings and presentations to relevant health authorities and consultant/advisory meetings
Qualification
Required
PhD, PharmD, or MD (or equivalent) in statistics, bioinformatics, computational biology, epidemiology, applied mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering or related fields, is required. (Consideration may be given for candidates with a Masters degree and at least 10 years of experience.)
8+ years of progressive business experience in the pharmaceutical R&D, data science, digital health, including life sciences companies, consulting firms with established healthcare Data Science and life sciences practices, and other companies in the data science ecosystem
Consistent track record of collaboration in a matrix organization, entrepreneurial skill, and ability to influence and engage strategic and technical partners
Familiarity with data science and digital health
Experience with healthcare datasets, such as EHR, or insurance claims
Preferred
A strong background in RWE/Data Science & Digital Health
Knowledge of Immunology is strongly preferred
Experience delivering data science projects using predictive technologies, data mining and/or text mining
Experience analyzing or handling healthcare data sets, including EHR, claims and registry data
Experience with data science tools and statistical programming languages, including SQL, Python, R, and others
Experience with defining use cases for deep learning, foundational models, and machine learning
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life insurance
Short- and long-term disability
Business accident insurance
Group legal insurance
Consolidated retirement plan (pension)
Savings plan (401(k))
Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - up to 40 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
Company
Johnson & Johnson
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Late StageLeadership Team
Alex Gorsky
Former Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson
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Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
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