Learning Portfolio Lead - Neuroscience

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine • Hopewell Township, NJ

20h • $122,000 - $212,750 • Hybrid

About The Position

J&J Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Learning Portfolio Lead - Neuroscience, based in Titusville, NJ. Our Neuroscience team tackles the world’s toughest brain health challenges including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, myasthenia gravis, epilepsy, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and autism. This patient-focused team helps address some of the most complex diseases of our time. The Learning Portfolio Lead - Neuroscience is a people leader who owns the strategic direction, coherence, health, and performance of the learning portfolio. This role ensures learning investments, curricula, and solutions remain aligned to business priorities, learner needs, portfolio standards, and organizational outcomes. Working closely with business leaders, subject matter experts, learning architects, project managers, vendor partners, and Learning Excellence Organization (LEO) peers, the Portfolio Lead translates category strategy into portfolio priorities, manages portfolio risk and performance, and drives decisions regarding learning investment, enhancement, optimization, retirement, and resource allocation. The role brings strong business and scientific acumen, learning judgment, enterprise perspective, and people leadership capability to ensure the portfolio remains relevant, differentiated, purposeful, and positioned to build field medical capability while supporting appropriate commercial field clinical content priorities.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7–10 years of relevant professional experience in learning, field medical, commercial field teams, or related pharmaceutical/biotech experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Education, Learning & Development, Business, or a related field required
• Portfolio Management & Execution: Owns the direction, coherence, health, and lifecycle management of the learning portfolio; identifies risks, dependencies, gaps, overlaps, and opportunities for optimization.
• Strategic Prioritization: Makes informed tradeoff decisions regarding learning demand, investment, sequencing, resource allocation, and retirement based on business value, learner impact, compliance considerations, and capacity.
• Strategy Translation: Converts clinical portfolio direction, business priorities, scientific developments, and stakeholder input into actionable portfolio decisions, curriculum priorities, and learning roadmap recommendations.
• Business & Domain Acumen: Applies strong clinical, field medical, commercial field, and pharmaceutical business understanding to portfolio planning, decision making, and stakeholder consultation.
• Curriculum & Pathway Management: Maintains strategic oversight of curricula, learning pathways, onboarding journeys, field readiness milestones, and role-based capability progression.
• Portfolio Performance & Learning Measurement: Uses learner feedback, usage data, portfolio insights, readiness indicators, and business inputs to evaluate learning portfolio effectiveness and recommend improvements.
• Resource & Capacity Management: Balances business demand against available resources, timelines, vendor support, project capacity, and implementation constraints; escalates risks and tradeoffs appropriately.
• Relationship Management: Builds trusted partnerships with business leaders, SMEs, Learning Architects, project managers, vendor partners, and cross-functional collaborators.
• Communication & Influence: Communicates portfolio priorities, recommendations, risks, and decision rationale clearly; influences without authority and drives alignment in a matrix environment.
• Collaboration & Teaming: Works effectively across portfolios and partner teams to reduce friction, share knowledge, create consistency, and promote operational continuity.
• Growth Mindset & Change Leadership: Demonstrates curiosity, adaptability, critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving orientation, and continuous improvement discipline in response to evolving business needs.
• People Leadership & Coaching: Sets clear direction, coaches team members, provides actionable feedback, creates accountability, and supports individual growth while maintaining alignment to portfolio priorities. Develops direct reports by identifying strengths, growth opportunities, skill needs, and development experiences that build future-ready learning, portfolio, and stakeholder leadership capability.
• Team Effectiveness & Culture Building: Creates an inclusive, collaborative, high-accountability team environment where people understand priorities, share knowledge, raise risks early, and work together to deliver quality outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree preferred, including PharmD, PhD, MD, MS, MA, MBA, or related advanced scientific, clinical, business, or education degree.
• People leadership experience is preferred.
• Neuroscience experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated commitment to learning emerging technologies, such as AI, through exploration, iteration, and applying new tools over time.

Responsibilities

• Own the Neuroscience learning portfolio strategy and roadmap, ensuring that portfolio priorities, investments, and lifecycle decisions align with category direction, business needs, learner needs, and enterprise learning standards
• Monitor portfolio performance, learner feedback, field insights, readiness indicators, and business inputs to identify gaps, redundancies, underperforming assets, and opportunities to improve learning effectiveness and business relevance
• Provide strategic oversight for curricula, learner journeys, onboarding pathways, field readiness milestones, and capability-building experiences so the portfolio remains coherent, current, and easy to navigate
• Apply business, clinical, and scientific expertise to interpret evolving business developments and translate them into portfolio implications, learning priorities, and clear direction for content and curriculum work
• Represent the Neuroscience learning portfolio in business planning, governance discussions, launch readiness forums, and cross-functional working sessions; influence stakeholders through clear recommendations, sound judgment, and enterprise-minded decision making
• Collaborate with business partnerships, LEO and vendor partners, and business stakeholders to align portfolio priorities with available resources, timelines, budget considerations, and capacity constraints
• Provide portfolio leadership for time-sensitive business requests, urgent updates, launch support, and cross-portfolio priorities across JJIM clinical portfolios, ensuring appropriate prioritization and coordinated execution
• Lead, coach, and develop direct reports by setting clear expectations, clarifying priorities, removing barriers, creating focus, and enabling team members to contribute effectively to portfolio outcomes
• Provide timely feedback, coaching, and development support that strengthens individual capability, builds learning and portfolio management skills, and supports career growth and performance expectations
• Establish team ways of working, role clarity, operating rhythms, and workload practices that help the team manage competing priorities, sustain quality, and deliver against portfolio commitments
• Model inclusive, collaborative, and enterprise-minded leadership that promotes trust, knowledge sharing, accountability, continuous improvement, and team effectiveness

Benefits

• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 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
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager