Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Director, Patient Advocacy, R&D, located Titusville, NJ, Raritan, NJ, Spring House, PA.
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The Director, Patient Advocacy, R&D will create the strategy and implement the plan to refine J&J's approach to patient advocacy within research and development. In a rapidly changing external environment, this role will be key in building strong relationships with patient advocacy organizations and patient communities to better understand their challenges, needs, and experiences.
Experience is required in one of the below areas; in several, is a plus.
- Development of a patient advocacy framework to engage with the patient advocacy organizations in R&D activities to create an integrated, differentiated, and superior experience for patients. This framework will be then applied across the J&J development portfolio.
- Development of disease area/trial level advocacy plans for R&D, to integrate the patient perspective in a strategic way and further refine our protocol design, operational execution, and speed to market in specific therapeutic areas. This leader will work to translate the overall advocacy strategy into realistic plans to improve patient and site voice in our clinical development programs.
- Identification and implementation of above/trial advocacy/policy initiatives that matters to patients and J&J's R&D program efforts.
- Transformation of the J&J R&D culture, processes, SOPs and KPIs to embed patient advocacy in J&J R&D day-to-day workflow.
This role will partner internally with the Innovation Health team, Global Development, Policy and Patient Advocacy, therapeutic area teams, commercial, bioethics, legal, policy, and compliance.
Externally, with patient organizations, regulatory bodies and other external stakeholders.
The Patient Advocacy Director must have vision and dedication needed to bring a new role to life, including building new Innovation strategies and best practices, bringing new industry differentiating capabilities to the Global Development Delivery Unit, and creating new sources of value within drug development to patients and sites.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop a patient advocacy strategic framework in R&D with our business partners, engaging with the patient communities to create an integrated, differentiated, and superior experience for patients across J&J's portfolio
- Develop and drive the implementation of a disease area/trial patient advocacy strategy to further refine our protocol design, operational execution, and speed to market in specific therapeutic areas.
- Identify and implement the above disease area /policy initiatives that matters to patients and J&J's R&D program/efforts.
- Map and update SOPs and KPIs to embed patient advocacy in J&J' R&D day-to-day workflow. Establish and implement a plan to transform the culture in J&J R&D to become a patient-centric organization.
- Cultivate, grow and lead relationships with targeted stakeholder decision-makers within advocacy organizations.
- Serve as the single point of contact between R&D Innovation, Engagement and Advocacy, and internal functions (Global Development, Therapeutic Area Teams, Health Policy and Advocacy, Communications, Scientific Affairs, R&D, Senior Leadership)
- Monitor the stakeholder environment, make strategic recommendations to strengthen existing relationship and identify new avenues for partnership
- Partner closely with the Policy organization and provide the voice of targeted advocacy organizations to inform overall R&D strategy
- Manage budget and execute sponsorship requests (corporate sponsorships, corporate memberships, charitable requests, non-CME) from key stakeholder groups including physician societies and patient advocacy organizations, in coordination with other advocacy-facing teams
- Lead and participate in Strategic Planning with internal partners in R&D
Qualifications
Education:
- A Bachelors degree a minimum of 8 years' experience in Patient Advocacy/Engagement the Healthcare Industry is required
Experience and Skills:
Required:
- At least 8 years of experience in patient advocacy and/or engagement either as a full-time job or acquired by working on projects with the patient communities is required
- Understanding of drug development is required
- Trusted, driven, inclusive leader with demonstrated effectiveness in fostering team productivity and cohesiveness is required.
- Demonstration of ability to manage complexity and collaboration with numerous cross-functional teams and influence internal and external stakeholders is required.
- Understanding of complexities associated with the changing health care environment is required
- Ability to demonstrate effective communication of technical information is required.
- Demonstration of strong skills in strategic planning/development and execution is required.
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral) are required.
- Ability to demonstrate a strong customer-centric approach and focus is required
The anticipated base pay range for this position is $142,000 USD to $244,950 USD.
The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation's performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company's discretion on an individual basis.
Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company's consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation - up to 120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington - up to 56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays - up to 13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Additional information can be found through the link below.
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https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and 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, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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