Sr Director, C&SP – Technical Solutions

Senior Director, Clinical & Statistical Programming (C&SP) – Technical Solutions

Locations:
Switzerland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

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 Med Tech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, profoundly impacting health for humanity.

As Senior Director, you’ll serve as a senior leader within Clinical & Statistical Programming, guiding a large, diverse, and geographically distributed organisation. You’ll define the long‑term strategy, elevate technical capabilities, and ensure flawless execution across major therapeutic and regional portfolios—typically spanning 100+ FTEs or equivalent budget responsibility. This role is both strategic and operational; you’ll influence the direction of our functional area, steer critical portfolio decisions, build future‑ready talent pipelines, and champion innovation that accelerates how we deliver clinical evidence to global health authorities.

• Shape the long‑range vision for C&SP—technology, talent, processes, capabilities, and partnerships.
• Guide organisational evolution: operating model design, capability building, and resource strategies that scale with business needs.
• Lead decision‑making for functional strategy, sourcing models, and investment priorities across a highly complex portfolio.

• Oversee end‑to‑end delivery of C&SP activities across assigned therapeutic or regional portfolios.
• Provide leadership for functional inputs into regulatory submission strategies.
• Partner with Delivery Unit Heads and cross‑functional leaders to prioritise workloads, allocate resources, and remove barriers to execution.
• Ensure process excellence—governance, compliance, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Foster deep collaboration across Clinical, Data Science, Statistics, Portfolio Delivery, Quality, Regulatory, Safety, Medical Affairs, and other internal stakeholders.

As the Head of Technical Solutions, you will lead the group responsible for our most forward‑looking capabilities—building and scaling the tools, methodologies, and automation that modernise how C&SP delivers value.

• Guide the evaluation, design, and deployment of innovative technologies—AI/ML, natural language processing, predictive modelling, automation, and efficiency‑enhancing tools.
• Drive the evolution of systems, platforms, and technical processes to ensure C&SP remains at the cutting edge.
• Establish frameworks, standards, and best practices that enable global consistency and scalability.
• Partner across R&D technical groups to leverage institutional knowledge, harmonise solutions, and accelerate breakthroughs.
• Build effective vendor partnerships and govern external sourcing models to ensure quality, value, and innovation.
• Support your teams in designing algorithms, experimenting with data‑driven solutions, and measuring the business impact of new technologies.

• Lead, coach, and develop a global leadership team including TA/DA Heads, Portfolio Leads, and Technical Solutions leaders.
• Drive a strong talent strategy encompassing recruitment, succession planning, skill development, and organisational structure.
• Create a culture rooted in innovation, accountability, collaboration, and customer focus.
• Make high‑impact decisions that influence the long‑term direction of the function and broader R&D ecosystem.

You’ll engage regularly with senior leaders across multiple domains—R&D, clinical operations, data analytics, regulatory, procurement, HR, finance, and more—while also representing J&J externally with vendors, partners, industry peers, and professional societies.

• Bachelor’s degree required in computer science, mathematics, data science, public health, or related scientific discipline; advanced degree…