Innovation Lead, Senior Manager

Job title:

Innovation Lead, Senior Manager

Company

Johnson & Johnson

Job description

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. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.
Position Summary:The Innovative Health (IH) Organization has been built 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, fueling 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 the future of clinical research and design and execute informative demonstration projects to prepare J&J for the future. The candidate will understand the clinical research environment and a track record of successfully initiating and driving complex projects to completion. A global mindset with a 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 candidate must be comfortable exploring new spaces where there is little or no experience or existing guidelines to follow.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 collaboration.
Principal Responsibilities:The Innovation Leader will be responsible for:

• Lead the design and execution of agile demonstration projects to evaluate effectiveness, viability and return on investment. These projects will identify and test novel approaches, processes, technologies and best practices that have will create value for patients or have the potential to reduce trial set up and execution cycle times, and/or reduce cost
• Collaborate with internal and external cross-functional teams to validate hypotheses.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute the projects, develop project plans, set milestones, and supervise progress to ensure timely evaluation and decision making for launch.
• Generate conclusive results to support the business case for launch or adoption of these new methods. Co-develop business cases to calculate the impact expected for the innovative capability and impact measurement after launch.
• Identify, evaluate (designing KPIs to measure outcomes and success) and create recommendations for implementing new clinical innovation opportunities to improve clinical operations efficiency and site & patient engagement.
• 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
• In close collaboration with the internal key stakeholders, identify potential pilot studies.
• Co-leading, with IH Launch, change management to ensure successful implementation in the broader organization
• Collaborating with external partners/academic institutions to co-develop and drive innovative clinical development solutions.

Principal Relationships:

• Key internal collaboration partners include study teams, the therapeutic area & clinical development teams, functional and data science teams across Janssen.
• Primary interfaces: IH LT, GD Delivery Units, as well as other business functions including GRA, Legal, Procurement, Finance, IT, Communications.
• External Interfaces: other peer organizations in the industry and vendor partners.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• A Bachelors’ degree is required; Master’s degree/Graduate degree in business or life sciences is highly preferred;
• A minimum of 8 or more years of total business experience is required as well as a minimum of 5 years of experience in a clinical development environment (pharmaceutical, medical device, CRO or other clinical development service organization) is required.

Other:This position may have up to 25% of regional/global travel requiredLocation: Titusville NJ, Beerse Belgium, Basel, Switzerland, London, UK

Expected salary

Location

Beerse, Antwerpen

Job date

Sat, 27 Jul 2024 22:32:50 GMT

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