Senior Director, Compound Development Team Leader - Oncology

Location: Spring House

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Job Function:
Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development
Job Sub Function:
Clinical Development & Research - Non-MD
Job Category:
Scientific/Technology
All Job Posting Locations:
Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Job Description:

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.

Our Oncology team is focused on the elimination of cancer by discovering new pathways and modalities to finding treatments and cures. We lead where medicine is going and need innovators with an unwavering commitment to results.

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

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Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Senior Director, Compound Development Team Leader (CDTL). The CDTL provides leadership to a cross-functional strategic compound development team and leads the development and execution of the compound strategy. Further, the CDTL champions the product/brand at all levels of J&J and is responsible for managing the alignment on communication on all CDT matters, as appropriate.

Key Responsibilities

• Actively contributes to Compound Strategy decision-making by ensuring relevant research, analysis, and expertise is available.

• Leads CDT in partnership with line functions to successfully develop the compound such that its value is maximized over its lifecycle while costs and time are minimized without sacrificing quality.

• Builds team effectiveness, and leads the Compound Development Team (CDT) to achieve its goals through the networks of people/functions represented on the team. When necessary, negotiates with function heads on functional deliverables.

• Challenges all functions on CDT to ensure that all issues and questions are being addressed, and that line function input into strategy and plans is adequate to meet the needs of the compound.

• Leads the development and maintenance of the compound development strategy in collaboration with the Project Manager (PM).

• Identifies potential issues and leads contingency planning; leads CDT problem solving and applies decision-making tools and techniques. Drives CDT to make effective and efficient decisions.

• Leads resolution of conflict at the CDT, Oncology Senior Leadership Team (Oncology SLT), Development Committee (DC), Investment Committee (IC), Group Operating Committee (GOC) and joint steering committees for partnered compounds and senior management levels.

• Ensures successful implementation of clinical supplies strategy.

• Accountable for overall budget and project plan deliverables.

• Acts as co-chair of global project teams with Alliance partners and aligns global strategy within a partnership, as applicable.

• Major collaborator for the internal Alliance Managers for partnered compounds.

• Ensures lessons learned at critical nodes in the development path.

• Leads the communication of strategy, issues, and plans to the PMC, Oncology SLT, DC, IC, GOC, alliance partners, JPKK, regional management boards, and other key stakeholders.

• Represents the interests of the compound/brand along with the global commercial lead at the…