Associate Director, MSL Communications - U.S. Medical Affairs (Lumateperone)

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

Job Function:

Medical Affairs Group

Job Sub Function:

Medical Writing

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for an Associate Director, MSL Communications, Lumateperone located in Titusville, New Jersey.

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

The Associate Director, MSL Communications, will oversee the MSL content planning and execution process that enables strategic and timely field-based medical resources used in scientific exchange.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic oversight of high quality MSL content, driving prioritization of resources, balancing internal stakeholder and external customer needs, and championing focused assets aligned to MAF strategic imperatives

• Coordinate development, review, and approval of both reactive and proactive materials for the MSL team including talking points, presentations, and interactive infographics; oversee quality control to ensure scientific accuracy

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal stakeholders (e.g., MSL team members, Medical Directors, Medical Communications) to fully understand strategic and ad hoc needs and identify how the MSL Comms team can meet such needs through development of specific MSL tools and resources

• Project management of communication materials (e.g., track prioritization, timelines and progress for communication materials including MSL proactive and reactive slide decks). Be able to utilize the Veeva system for review and storage of all materials.

• Support slide creation and formatting from abstracts/posters/oral presentations from medical congresses and other clinical/scientific meetings for development of post-congress slide decks to be delivered to MSLs and other stakeholders

• Management and vendor selection as well as budget negotiations. Provide direction, feedback, and oversight to contractor(s) and vendor(s) as well as manage related budgets.

• Track and analyze metrics of communication material use by MSLs in close partnership with MSL Operations team

• Partner with MSL Operations for MSL training, in collaboration with medical directors and MSL leadership

• Co-lead insight generation and Insights Forum efforts with Sci Comms lead, embedding field intelligence into MSL content planning

• Stay abreast of innovations and novel formats that are being used in MSL Communications functions across industry, and bring forward ideas/solutions to apply to MSL resources

Qualifications

Education:

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in life sciences, healthcare, or related discipline with a minimum of 6 years of medical/MSL communications or medical writing experience or 6 years of related (pharmaceutical) work experience; or an advanced degree (PharmD, PhD, MS) discipline with a minimum of 4 years related (pharmaceutical) work experience is required.

Experience and Skills:

• Ability to translate complex clinical concepts into simple, digestible, and appealing visual displays

• Demonstrated ability to work in cross-functional environments as well as ability to partner with scientists, academicians, clinicians, and vendors

• Detail-orientation with ability to efficiently fact-check and ensure scientific accuracy

• Experience in pharmaceutical health care compliance environment for external communication of scientific materials, with knowledge of compliant presentation of scientific data

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Excellent time management and organizational skills

• Experience in Word, Microsoft Office, Excel, Adobe Professional, and Veeva

• Neuroscience experience is preferred

• Project management/team leadership experience is preferred

• Proven creative problem solving and understanding of customer needs is highly desired

Other

• Up to 10% travel may be required

The expected base pay range for this position is $137,000 to $235,750.

The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation's performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company's discretion on an individual basis.

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.

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)).

Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

Vacation- 120 hours per calendar year Sick time- 40 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 Condolence Leave- 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member Caregiver Leave- 10 days Volunteer Leave- 4 days Military Spouse Time-Off- 80 hours

Additional information can be found through the link below.

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

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 and 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, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Business Writing, Clinical Research and Regulations, Clinical Trials Operations, Coaching, Collaborating, Copy Editing, Data Synthesis, Industry Analysis, Medical Affairs, Medical Communications, Organizing, Proofreading, Quality Validation, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$137,000.00 - $235,750.00

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