Associate Director, Customer Master - Commercial Business Owner

Johnson & Johnson Co.; Titusville (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine seeks an Associate Director, Customer Master - Commercial Business Owner, based in Titusville, NJ or Horsham, PA. You will own strategy and governance for customer and account master data across the commercial function.

You will align sales, marketing, analytics and IT, define business requirements, and drive adoption of a single trusted data view. This role partners with vendors and IT to resolve issues and ensure data quality and compliant processes across

Responsibilities

• Own the Commercial business strategy for customer and account master data, ensuring it supports sales, marketing, sales operations, account management, and commercial analytics priorities.
• Connect needs across Commercial functions, identify dependencies and downstream impacts, and align stakeholders on shared customer definitions, account hierarchies, affiliations, and business processes.
• Define the business requirements and acceptance criteria for a single, trusted view of customers and accounts; partner with IT and data teams on solution options without owning technical design or development.
• Assess how customer and account changes affect Commercial workflows, including CRM, targeting, account planning, and reporting; align business priorities and readiness across impacted teams.
• Own business governance and decision-making for customer and account data, including standards, appropriate use, change approvals, and resolution of competing functional needs.

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

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function

Data Science Portfolio Management

Job Category

Professional

All Job Posting Locations

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description

J&J Innovative Medicine is recruiting for an Associate Director, Customer Master - Commercial Business Owner, based in Titusville, NJ or Horsham, PA.

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Purpose

The Associate Director, Customer Master owns the strategy, priorities, and governance for customer and account master data across Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (JJIM). This Commercial functional leader connects sales, marketing, sales operations, account management, and analytics to align business needs and drive adoption of trusted customer and account information.

Within Strategy, Analytics and Transformation (StAT), the role aligns business rules for Healthcare Organization (HCO) hierarchies and relationships and Healthcare Professional (HCP) affiliations, considering impacts on account planning, targeting, field execution, and reporting. It partners with Commercial teams, Information Technology (IT), data stewards, and vendors to resolve issues and, with the Director, Data Management, oversees data acquisition, contracting, and investment value.

As business owner of the HCP and Account Data Product-the source of truth for HCP and Account data-the role owns the vision, roadmap, requirements, prioritization, acceptance, and adoption. Success means trusted information, timely issue resolution, consistent Commercial use, and measurable business value. This is a business ownership role; technical teams own solution design, configuration, and implementation.

Primary Responsibilities

Commercial Strategy & Cross-Functional Business Ownership

• Own the Commercial business strategy for customer and account master data, ensuring it supports sales, marketing, sales operations, account management, and commercial analytics priorities.
• Connect needs across Commercial functions, identify dependencies and downstream impacts, and align stakeholders on shared customer definitions, account hierarchies, affiliations, and business processes.
• Define the business requirements and acceptance criteria for a single, trusted view of customers and accounts; partner with IT and data teams on solution options without owning technical design or development.
• Assess how customer and account changes affect Commercial workflows, including customer relationship management (CRM), targeting, account planning, and reporting; align business priorities and readiness across impacted teams.
• Own business governance and decision-making for customer and account data, including standards, appropriate use, change approvals, and resolution of competing functional needs.

Business Governance & Operational Oversight

• Lead business oversight of customer master operations and outsourced stewardship; define and approve business policies for customer identification, duplicate resolution, and authoritative sources, with technical implementation owned by IT and delivery partners.
• Track service performance, business risks, and improvement priorities; communicate decisions, progress, and business value to Commercial stakeholders and leadership.
• Agree on business-relevant data quality expectations with functional owners and establish clear accountability, documented processes, and controls for ongoing maintenance and appropriate use.
• Oversee data change requests (DCRs), prioritize resolution based on Commercial impact, and ensure affected teams understand decisions and downstream implications.
• Partner with business users, data stewards, IT, and vendors to identify root c