Associate Director, Publications & Evidence Strategy – Neuroscience

Johnson & Johnson•Titusville, NJ

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Johnson & Johnson is seeking an Associate Director, Publications & Evidence Strategy to lead publication strategy development, planning, and execution across its U.S. Neuroscience portfolio. The role translates medical strategy, integrated evidence-generation plans, evidence gaps, anticipated data readouts, and external scientific needs into publication strategies covering scientific objectives, narratives, audiences, channels, sequencing, timelines, and impact measures. Portfolio responsibilities include CAPLYTA®, SPRAVATO®, INVEGA® long-acting injectables, and Neuroscience pipeline assets. The position serves as a publications and evidence strategy subject-matter expert and a portfolio-level coordination point for U.S. Medical Affairs. It partners with medical and evidence-generation teams, Global Medical Affairs, Real-World Evidence, Biostatistics, Medical Communications, Field Medical, Regulatory, Legal, Health Care Compliance, authors, and agencies. The role is accountable for strategic quality, scientific rigor, operational excellence, transparency, and compliance with company processes and publication standards. The role is based in Titusville, New Jersey, with a hybrid schedule of three days in the office and up to two days remote per week. Travel up to 15%, including occasional overnight travel, may be required based on business needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, healthcare, or related discipline.
5–7 years of relevant experience in Scientific Communications, Medical Affairs, Publications, Clinical Research, Medical Communications, or related pharmaceutical industry functions.
Demonstrated experience developing publication and evidence strategies that integrate medical objectives, evidence plans, scientific narratives, audience needs, and data-disclosure priorities.
Demonstrated experience leading publication planning and execution, including manuscripts, abstracts, posters, congress presentations, and related deliverables.
Ability to critically evaluate, interpret, and communicate clinical and scientific data.
Working knowledge of publication ethics, authorship principles, peer-review processes, and applicable publication standards.
Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and managing multiple complex projects in a highly matrixed organization.
Experience managing external agencies, medical writers, vendors, timelines, and budgets.
Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to travel up to 15%, including occasional overnight travel, based on business needs.

Nice To Haves

Advanced scientific or healthcare degree, such as PhD, PharmD, MD, DO, MPH, or MSN.
Neuroscience, psychiatry, neurology, or central nervous system therapeutic-area experience.
U.S. Medical Affairs experience supporting marketed products, pipeline assets, launch readiness, and lifecycle evidence dissemination.
Experience across clinical trials, post hoc analyses, real-world evidence, health outcomes research, and investigator-initiated research.
Experience with publication management platforms, digital workflow tools, performance analytics, and portfolio-level reporting.
Certified Medical Publication Professional credential or comparable publication-science training.
Demonstrated ability to influence across functions and communicate complex scientific and strategic issues to senior leaders.

Responsibilities

Lead development, annual refresh, and execution of integrated U.S. publications and evidence dissemination strategies and plans across the Neuroscience portfolio.
Translate medical strategy, evidence plans, evidence gaps, anticipated data readouts, and external scientific needs into publication objectives, narratives, audience priorities, channels, sequencing, and timelines.
Develop differentiated strategies by product, indication, evidence type, and lifecycle stage while maintaining an integrated portfolio view.
Identify publication opportunities, evidence dependencies and gaps, duplication, competitive considerations, resource constraints, and risks; recommend prioritization and mitigation actions.
Define publication success measures and use performance, audience engagement, literature trends, and stakeholder insights to optimize strategies and future plans.
Partner with U.S., regional, and global medical leaders to align publication strategies and represent U.S. evidence needs and audience priorities.
Lead publication strategy for launch readiness, lifecycle management, congress planning, major evidence milestones, and evidence dissemination.
Facilitate cross-functional publication strategy workshops and governance forums to drive alignment, decisions, accountability, and execution.
Drive manuscripts, abstracts, posters, oral presentations, plain-language summaries where applicable, and other peer-reviewed scientific communications from concept and disclosure decisions through submission, presentation, publication, and archiving.
Facilitate interpretation and synthesis of clinical, real-world, health outcomes, and other scientific evidence with study teams, statisticians, medical writers, and authors.
Ensure publication content is scientifically rigorous, accurate, balanced, clear, and consistent with the underlying evidence.
Manage timelines and dependencies, identify risks early, and establish recovery plans for congress and journal milestones.
Support dissemination after publication, including internal scientific awareness and Field Medical readiness.
Serve as a U.S. publications subject-matter expert for applicable company policies, procedures, systems, and review pathways.
Ensure work complies with company policies, publication standards, and industry guidelines, including GPP, ICMJE, CONSORT, and applicable journal and congress requirements.
Support transparent authorship, contributor recognition, conflicts-of-interest disclosure, data transparency, and documentation of publication decisions.
Coordinate medical, legal, regulatory, compliance, and functional reviews while preserving scientific integrity and publication quality.
Maintain accurate publication records, approvals, decision history, version control, and audit-ready documentation in designated systems.
Lead cross-functional publication planning and execution forums and build partnerships across medical, evidence-generation, and global teams.
Engage external authors, investigators, academic collaborators, journal editors, congress organizers, medical writers, and publication agencies.
Clarify roles, decision rights, escalation pathways, and handoffs across matrix teams; communicate portfolio status, strategic choices, risks, impact, and resource needs to leadership.
Provide strategic and operational oversight to publication agencies, medical writers, and other external partners.
Develop annual publication budget requirements, track forecasts and spending, and support resource prioritization.
Set expectations and monitor agency quality, responsiveness, timelines, and value.
Use publication management tools and dashboards to track deliverables, cycle times, milestones, risks, and execution.
Drive process improvement and scalable ways of working across the Neuroscience publication portfolio.

Benefits

Annual performance bonus eligibility.
Medical insurance.
Dental insurance.
Vision insurance.
Life insurance.
Short- and long-term disability insurance.
Business accident insurance.
Group legal insurance.
Pension plan eligibility.
401(k) savings plan eligibility.
Long-term incentive program eligibility.
Vacation: up to 120 hours per calendar year.
Sick time: up to 40 hours per calendar year; up to 56 hours for employees residing in Washington State.
Holiday pay, including floating holidays: up to 13 days per calendar year.
Work, Personal and Family Time: up to 40 hours per calendar year.