Senior Director, Scientific Integration

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine • Malvern, PA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Senior Director, Scientific Integration, located in Malvern, PA. About Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine 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. Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way. Position Summary The Senior Director, Scientific Integration is a senior leadership role responsible for scientific integration (program strategic and technical leadership), strategy and innovation, and business operations across the biologics R&D portfolio within Drug Product Development & Delivery (DPD&D). This leader operates at the intersection of science, portfolio execution, and enterprise leadership – ensuring alignment across therapeutic areas, modalities, and global stakeholders. This role requires the ability to influence senior internal leaders and external partners, navigate complex matrixed environments, and drive alignment across early and late stage development programs to enable successful regulatory submissions, approvals and commercialization readiness.

Requirements

• PhD in a relevant area of study (e.g., Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemical Engineering), or Master’s degree with equivalent industry experience will be considered.
• 15+ years of relevant experience, including significant expertise in biotherapeutics product development, drug delivery systems, and the overall drug development process.
• Demonstrated track record across multiple R&D disciplines, including early stage, late stage, lifecycle management, and manufacturing/process interfaces.
• Regulatory experience authoring and/or reviewing global marketing applications and dossier content for biologics.
• People leadership experience with direct supervision of senior scientists and leadership of large cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior internal stakeholders and external partners and to deliver results in a complex, matrixed environment.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with digital approaches (e.g., AI/ML, modeling, in silico) is an advantage (not a primary selection driver).

Responsibilities

• Lead scientific integration (program strategic and technical leadership) across early and late-stage biologics programs; drive strategic, technical, and intellectual leadership across programs/projects.
• Provide senior scientific direction and mentorship to scientific integrators (DPD&D program leaders); lead and elevate an established team of senior scientific leaders (leader of leaders).
• Influence and align senior internal stakeholders and external colleagues/partners across regions, therapeutic areas, and functional areas.
• Drive resolution of complex functional and cross-functional issues across a highly matrixed stakeholder landscape.
• Lead portfolio-level alignment across Oncology, Immunology, and Neuroscience in a TA-agnostic capacity.
• Operate across modalities including proteins/biologics, synthetics, drug delivery systems and combination products, and enabling platform technologies.
• Contribute to innovation strategy, intellectual property considerations, and business operations within DPD&D and Discovery, product Development & Supply.
• Ensure alignment toward regulatory submission and launch readiness through integrated portfolio leadership.

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)).
• Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – up to 56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time – up to 40 hours per calendar year

What This Job Offers

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