Manager, Innovation Lead

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine • Hopewell Township, NJ

22h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Innovative Health (IH) Organization has been created to drive meaningful impact to participant health and wellbeing by reinventing the clinical trial experience. The Innovative Health organization connects teams across development to novel capabilities and solutions, unleashing the potential of innovation to drive broader access to innovative medicines, and enriching the healthcare experience for all. The IH team is seeking an innovation leader who will be a forward-thinker, able to imagine and shape the future of clinical research and design and execute innovation demonstration projects to prepare J&J for this future. The candidate will understand the clinical research environment and a track record of successfully initiating and driving projects to completion. The candidate must be comfortable exploring new spaces where there is little or no experience or existing guidelines to follow. A global mindset with proven ability to partner cross-culturally and cross-functionally, to develop strong collaborations and to inspire trust across the organization and at all levels is essential. The IH department reports into Global Development’s (GD) Business Growth, Innovation and Advocacy (BGIA) department and is dedicated to driving innovation into the clinical operating model to make clinical development faster and better for patients, investigators, Janssen, and the industry at large. IH’s approach is to learn through doing: we design and conduct innovation projects that generate knowledge about novel operational models, methods and solutions. Once proven valuable and feasible, we embed new operational approaches and technologies into Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines R&D with the goals of improving patient and site experiences, expediting drug development, and reducing overall costs. Our success comes by way of our entrepreneurial culture and teamwork.

Requirements

• A Bachelors’ degree is required; Master’s degree/Graduate degree in business or life sciences is highly preferred
• A minimum of 4 years of work experience in industry or academia is required, including at least 3 years within a clinical development environment (pharmaceutical, medical devices, CRO or other clinical development service organization).
• Strong project leadership skills combining hands-on project management, proactive planning, stakeholder alignment, and effective issue and conflict resolution is required.
• Solid foundation in project management principles is required; formal project management certification is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to take an idea through proposal, demonstration and to a scaled solution is required.
• Ability to lead cross-functional project teams and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously while maintaining momentum and delivery focus is required.
• Ability to craft solid business cases based on active listening and solid benchtop analysis

Nice To Haves

• Alliance Formation
• Budget Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Design Thinking
• Developing Others
• Entrepreneurship
• Facilitation
• Inclusive Leadership
• Innovation
• Leadership
• Market Research
• Negotiation
• Operations Management
• Organizational Project Management
• Resource Allocation
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
• Strategic Change
• Team Management

Responsibilities

• Designing and executing agile innovation demonstration projects to evaluate effectiveness, viability and return on investment. These projects will identify and test novel approaches, processes, technologies and best practices that will create value for patients, have the potential to optimize trial recruitment, reduce trial set up and execution cycle times, and/or reduce cost.
• Collaborating with internal and external cross-functional teams to validate hypotheses.
• Be a thought and execution leader in technology projects, specifically in (Gen)AI driven enhancements and automations
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to execute the projects, develop project plans, set milestones, and monitor progress to ensure timely evaluation and decision making for launch.
• Generating conclusive results to support the business case for launch or adoption of these new methods.
• Proactively identifying potential roadblocks and taking a solutions-driven approach for complex and undefined projects that may not be addressed by existing policies, procedures, or protocols.
• Providing leadership and project management for multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Support IH Launch, with change management to ensure successful implementation in the broader organization.

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 period
• 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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees