Director, R&D Data Science, MDM Products
About The Position
At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine (J&J IM), a pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Director, R&D Data Science, MDM Products. This position has a primary location of Titusville, NJ but is also open to Spring House, PA or Cambridge, MA. This position requires up to 25% travel. The Director, Product Mastering is responsible for establishing and governing an end-to-end mastering capability for product-related data, beginning with compounds in Therapeutic Discovery (TD), continuing through Preclinical Sciences & Translational Safety (PSTS), extending into Pharmaceutical Therapeutics Development & Supply (PTDS), and connecting seamlessly with clinical trial and regulatory data. This lifecycle mastering ensures continuity into commercial brand naming and labeling. This role ensures that product master data—including compounds, formulations, investigational products, clinical identifiers, regulatory submissions, and commercial brand hierarchies—is trusted, harmonized, and semantically consistent across the entire R&D to Commercial continuum. The Director will leverage ontologies and knowledge graphs to connect and contextualize product information across silos, enabling advanced analytics, AI/ML, regulatory compliance, and global interoperability.
Requirements
- Bachelor degree required, Master’s or PhD preferred in life sciences, regulatory sciences, informatics, data science, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in pharma/biotech R&D or commercial functions, with significant exposure to product lifecycle and regulatory data.
- Demonstrated expertise in master data management is required.
- Strong understanding of product data standards.
- Hands-on experience with metadata management, ontologies, and graph-based integration technologies.
- Ability to connect scientific, regulatory, and commercial perspectives into a unified product mastering framework.
- Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to influence and drive adoption of product mastering practices across global organizations is required.
Nice To Haves
- ontology development, and knowledge graph applications is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute a mastering strategy covering the full product lifecycle: from discovery compounds → preclinical entities → development products (PTDS) → clinical trial identifiers → regulatory designations → commercial brand names.
- Ensure a single, authoritative source of truth for all product-related master data, harmonized across functions and systems.
- Identify gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for automation, external data partnerships, and standards alignment.
- Lead the development and governance of a Product Ontology that links compounds, formulations, regulatory identifiers, and brand entities.
- Apply knowledge graph technologies to connect product data across TD, PSTS, PTDS, clinical, regulatory, and commercial domains.
- Align ontology and graph models with enterprise metadata standards and external frameworks.
- Establish stewardship, ownership, and governance models for product master data across R&D and Commercial.
- Define and enforce standards for product hierarchies, nomenclature, and lifecycle transitions.
- Partner with Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Operations, Supply Chain, and Commercial to ensure product mastering supports submission, labeling, and compliance needs.
- Collaborate with Knowledge Management, Data Products, and Metadata/Cataloging teams to ensure product master data is discoverable, connected, and reusable across the enterprise.
- Work with IT (JJT) to evaluate and implement enabling technologies for ontology, graph-based integration, and master data platforms.
- Align with parallel MDM domains (e.g., patient, site, account) to ensure cross-domain consistency.
- Define and track KPIs for product master data quality, timeliness, and traceability across the lifecycle.
- Provide governance dashboards and reports to R&D and Commercial leadership.
- Communicate the vision, progress, and value realization of product mastering to senior executives and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Ensures that product-related data is connected across the full R&D-to-Commercial lifecycle.
- Transforms product data into a trusted, AI-ready asset that accelerates discovery, supports regulatory submissions, ensures compliance, and strengthens commercial readiness.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
- consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
- long-term incentive program.
- Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
- Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
- 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/foster care of a child
- Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member
- Caregiver Leave – 10 days
- Volunteer Leave – 4 days
- Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
