Head of Technology - Therapeutic Areas (TAs) & External Scientific Innovation (ESI)

Johnson Johnson; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is seeking a Senior Director - Head of Technology, Therapeutic Areas and External Scientific Innovation to lead the technology profile and strategy across Immunology, Oncology and Neuroscience.

The role requires close collaboration with the Data, Data Science and AI (DDSAI) organization to ensure data products, analytics and AI capabilities are aligned with high-value scientific priorities.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in technology strategy and portfolio management.
• Strong collaboration with Data, Data Science and AI (DDSAI) organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead people, products, platforms, systems and projects across Therapeutic Areas and External Scientific Innovation portfolio.
• Establish outcome measures and report progress, value, risk, dependencies and resource needs for workstreams and capabilities.
• Serve as a member of the Research Systems Senior Leadership Team and represent the technology agenda with leadership teams.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year technology, data and AI profile and roadmap aligned with therapeutic-area strategies.

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 jnj.com .

Job Function:

Technology Enterprise Strategy & Security

Job Sub Function:

Product Strategy

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is currently recruiting for a Senior Director - Head of Technology, Therapeutic Areas and External Scientific Innovation , supporting the Immunology, Oncology and Neuroscience Therapeutic Areas and External Scientific Innovation organization to be located in either Cambridge, MA; Spring House, PA; La Jolla, CA; Beerse, Belgium or High Wycombe, UK. Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s). United States: Belgium: R-101308 Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.

The Senior Director, Head of Technology - Therapeutic Areas and External Scientific Innovation, will own the technology profile, strategy, portfolio, delivery and operational performance required to advance therapeutic-area science and externally sourced innovation across Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine. The role will establish a deep, sustained partnership with the Data, Data Science and AI (DDSAI) organization to ensure that technology, data products, advanced analytics and AI capabilities are jointly shaped around the highest-value scientific and clinical priorities.

This is a critical leadership role in the Research Systems organization, enabling a next-generation R&D technology ecosystem that is highly automated, software-defined, data-centric and AI-augmented. In close partnership with DDSAI, the role will ensure that scientific data is created and managed according to FAIR principles-Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable-and that laboratory, knowledge, analytics, data science and decision-support capabilities connect end to end.

In a business-partnering capacity, this leader will work with scientific, clinical, translational and portfolio teams across Immunology, Oncology and Neuroscience, as well as External Scientific Innovation, to develop and manage a coherent technology profile spanning disease understanding, target discovery, target validation, lead finding, lead optimization, biomarker strategy, and clinical trial design and execution.

The role will act as the primary Technology partner to DDSAI for the Therapeutic Areas and External Scientific Innovation portfolio. Together, the organizations will define shared outcomes, roadmaps, architectures, operating models and investment priorities, and will co-lead matrixed teams spanning data engineering, data science, AI/ML, Engineering, Laboratory Systems, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security & Risk, Clinical Technology, Data Platforms and Technology Services.

You will shape innovative and evolving capabilities and talent, directing the strategy, architecture, delivery and operations of technology products that support discovery biology laboratories, externally generated scientific data, translational research, clinical evidence generation, biomarker development, and therapeutic-area portfolio decisions. Additional duties and responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Lead people, products, platforms, systems and projects across the Therapeutic Areas and External Scientific Innovation portfolio, including direct reports, matrixed employees and strategic partners.
• Establish outcome measures and report progress, value, risk, dependencies and resource needs for workstreams and capabilities within scope.
• Serve as a member of the Research Systems Senior Leadership Team and represent the technology agenda with Therapeutic Area and External Scientific Innovation leadership teams.
• Develop and maintain, jointly with DDSAI, a multi-year technology, data and AI profile and roadmap aligned with therapeutic-area strategies, external innovation priorit