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Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine · 1 day ago

Director, R&D Data Science & Digital Health, Immunology RWE

New Brunswick, NJ

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$164K/yr - $283K/yr

8+ years exp

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is a leader in healthcare innovation, dedicated to developing treatments and cures for complex diseases. The Director, R&D Data Science & Digital Health will contribute to the design and execution of a Real World Evidence strategy in alignment with the Immunology Therapeutic Area goals and collaborate with various teams to drive innovative medicine development.

Pharmaceuticals

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

Data ScienceDigital HealthImmunologyPredictive TechnologiesHealthcare DatasetsStatistical ProgrammingEntrepreneurial SkillInfluencing SkillsDigital StrategyCollaborationNegotiation

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