Associate Director, Pricing Strategy Neuroscience 1 of 2 Openings (Titusville, NJ)
About The Position
Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. is recruiting an Associate Director, Pricing Strategy for its Strategic Customer Group, based in Titusville, New Jersey. The Strategic Customer Group develops and executes strategies to support optimal access and reimbursement for the J&J portfolio. The position focuses on assigned Innovative Medicine Neuroscience products. The role leads the development and execution of pricing and contracting strategies, serving as the brand pricing lead. It translates customer, competitive, policy, and financial insights into strategies that support patient access, sustainable growth, and gross-to-net performance across payer and provider segments. The role also evaluates innovative and value-based contracting opportunities and works with Brand, Finance, Legal, Contracting, HCC, and senior leadership to inform decisions. The position follows J&J's Flex model: three days on-site and two days remote each week. It requires up to 10% domestic travel.
Requirements
- A minimum of five years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or broader healthcare industry.
- Ability to collaborate across Brand, Account Management, Strategic Planning, Legal, Finance, HCC, and other key functions.
- Strong strategic thinking, analytical problem-solving, financial acumen, and communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Ability to influence decisions, manage complex workstreams, and translate analysis into clear business recommendations.
- Understanding of reimbursement and payment models, payer and provider customer structures, and pharmaceutical contracting.
- Experience in pricing, contracting, market access, account management, finance, marketing, analytics, or product management.
- Commitment to learning emerging technologies, such as AI, through exploration, iteration, and applying new tools over time.
- Experience building team AI literacy and confidence, reinforcing trusted and responsible AI use and sound judgment.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute pricing strategies for in-line Neuroscience brands in partnership with Brand, Finance, Legal, Contracting, HCC, and other stakeholders.
- Serve as the brand pricing lead, synthesizing customer, competitive, industry, and marketplace insights to shape product-specific and franchise-level pricing and contracting strategies.
- Lead the development of channel pricing and contracting approaches across key payer and provider segments.
- Build senior leadership alignment on pricing policies, strategic recommendations, and the gross and net financial implications of key decisions.
- Lead CPC discussions in partnership with Legal, Finance, Contract Administration, HCS, HCC, and other stakeholders.
- Develop dashboards and analytical tools to evaluate contract performance, pricing strategy effectiveness, and overall business impact.
- Monitor competitive, policy, reimbursement, and healthcare-system developments and translate emerging changes into actionable pricing and contracting recommendations.
- Evaluate and implement innovative and value-based contracting approaches, including assessments of financial, operational, legal, and customer implications.
- Provide pricing strategy support for customer negotiations and contract discussions, as needed.
Benefits
- Eligible to participate in the Company's long-term incentive program.
- Vacation: 120 hours per calendar year.
- Sick time: 40 hours per calendar year, with different amounts for employees residing in Colorado or Washington.
- Holiday pay, including floating holidays: 13 days per calendar year.
- Work, Personal and Family Time: up to 40 hours per calendar year.
- Parental Leave: 480 hours within one year of the birth, adoption, or foster care of a child.
- Bereavement Leave: 240 hours for an immediate family member and 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year.
- Caregiver Leave: 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period.
- Volunteer Leave: 32 hours per calendar year.
- Military Spouse Time-Off: 80 hours per calendar year.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
