Manager, Serious Breach Office

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Raritan (NJ); On-site; USD 102,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation – 120 hours/year

Sick time – 40 hours/year (varies by州)

Holiday pay – 13 days/year

Parental Leave – 480 hours

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is hiring a Manager, Serious Breach Office to lead the assessment and reporting of serious breaches for JJIM clinical trials. The role coordinates with CRM-OpEx and partners to ensure timely investigations and regulatory compliance across North America or EMEA, with preference for NJ sites.

The incumbent will drive process improvement, build dashboards, and provide strategic input on risk management. Travel up to 15% is expected.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of relevant health care industry experience required.
• Experience in clinical trial execution at sponsor, site or CRO preferred.
• Strong organizational and project management skills required.
• Strong meeting facilitation and cross-functional collaboration skills required.
• Experience with serious breach reporting and ICH guidelines is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as SBO Lead to drive serious breach process and ensure compliance of reporting to Health Authorities.
• Define and enhance oversight strategies for serious breach process within risk management framework.
• Develop metrics and dashboards to monitor quality, efficiency and risk in serious breach reporting.
• Collaborate with RDQ stakeholders to develop templates, scorecards, and data-driven reports.
• Represent the function in cross-functional leadership meetings and initiatives.

Skills

Data visualization tools

Project management

Stakeholder facilitation

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in science/medical field

Tools

Tableau

Spotfire

Job description

At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured,where treatments are smarter and less invasive, andsolutions 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

Quality

Job Sub Function

Clinical Quality

Job Category

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

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

Job Description

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Manager, Serious Breach Office. This position can be located in North America or EMEA regions with a preference for Raritan, Titusville or New Brunswick, NJ and Horsham, PA.

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):

North America- Requisition #R-093180

EMEA– Requisition#R-094084

Position Summary

The Serious Breach Office (SBO), Manager is a member of the Clinical Risk Management-Operational Excellence (CRM-OpEx) function of R&D Quality (RDQ). This role provides JJIM awareness, facilitation and alignment of the processes that enable compliance to the country and regional level serious breach reporting requirements for JJIM sponsored clinical trials.

The incumbent will drive accountability in the implementation of the RDQ serious breach reporting process under the guidance of the SBO management and in collaboration with contributing business partners. Through the coordination and consultation of stakeholder business partners, the SBO Manager will facilitate the assessment of significant quality issues related to JJIM sponsored clinical trials for reportability to serious breach reporting countries and/or regions.

Main Responsibilities

• Serious Breach Office (SBO): As a facilitator of the serious breach process and record owner, you will drive the assessments and reporting of issues or events related to JJIM clinical trials that meet the serious breach reporting criteria to the appropriate corresponding Health Authorities. You will be a member of a team designated as the primary subject matter experts for the JJIM organization to ensure compliance, effectiveness, and continual improvement of the serious breach reporting and detection processes.
• Serious Breach Process Facilitator: As a designated SBO Lead, you will define, drive and enhance oversight strategies and monitoring capabilities to ensure the effectiveness and compliance elements of the serious breach process within clinical trial risk and issue management framework. You will facilitate early consultation and timely assessment activities across stakeholder organizations and varying levels of JJIM leadership to ensure the appropriate dispositioning of potential serious breaches related to JJIM clinical trials.
• Process Performance Monitoring: You will develop, assess and report performance metrics related to quality, efficiency, and risk for serious breach process execution and timely case reporting identifying process and/or compliance strengths and gaps for management review.
• Continual Improvement Driver: As a steward of continual process improvement, you will monitor adherence to implemented process controls, effectiveness and risk management requirements in alignment with associated business partner processes, enterprise standards and industry regulations to develop proposals for optimization initiatives. You will identify and deliver key improvements to the serious breach process in collaboration with CRM, and key business partners-RDQA, GD, Legal, JJIMQ, and GRA.
• Data Analysis and Visualization: As a presenter and primary monitor of serious breach reporting process effectiveness, you will collaborate with stakeholders to create and monitor meaningful digital dashboards that enable clear interpretation and data-driven decision making.
• Leadership in Serious Breach Meetings: As a representative of the Serious Breach Office during process, strategic, and/or data reviews, you will model the appropriate level of preparedness, executive presence, confidence and assertiveness to thoroughly enable efficient, data-driven decisions and actions.
• Collaboration with Serious Breach Process Stakeholders: As part of the RDQ and broader J&J community, you will partner with RDQ QANA, R&D stakeholders and other potential sources of benefit from across IM and MedTech to develop templates, scorecards, and dashboards that simplify activities for functional teams and contributors.
• X-Functional Strategic Support: As a Leader within the CRM-OpEx team, you will represent your function in support of core RDQ and business partner initiatives.

Additional Responsibilities

• Vigilant continuing education and research into the regulatory landscape of serious breach reporting, competitor process benchmarking, external reporting analysis, and JJIM serious breach training platforms.
• Ability to interpret problems, create proposals, and implement solutions that effectively address gaps and/or areas of potential improvements.
• Manage projects with a high level of independence to ensure timely and accurate completion of activities.
• Strong communication skills with a confirmed ability to effectively engage and balance key internal cross- functional internal and external business partners (including Health Authorities).
• Strong collaboration, alignment, and influencing skills with the ability to summarize and present results.

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's degree is required in a scientific, medical or related discipline.

Skills & Capabilities

• A minimum of 1-3 years of relevant experience working in the health care industry required; pharmaceutical, medical device, Biologics company and/or Health Authority experience is required.
• Experience in clinical trial execution at a sponsor, investigational site or CRO, clinical trial document management, and/or GCP compliance functions preferred.
• Strong organizational and project management skills are required.
• Strong meeting facilitation skills are required.
• Experience leading and influencing complex, cross-functional teams is required.
• Previous experience with fundamentals of clinical trial risk management, serious breach reporting requirements, and corresponding ICH guidelines is required.
• Proficiency with data visualization tools (i.e., Tableau, Spotfire, or related) preferred.
• Ability to collect, analyze, interpret and present collective data to enable data-driven decision making is required.
• A high degree of accuracy and attention to detail, and excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills required.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications required.
• Travel ~10%- 15% primarily domestic and/or international required.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers . internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills

Preferred Skills:

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$102,000.00 - $177,100.00

Additional Description For Pay Transparency

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

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 period10 days
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits