Director, Real World Value and Evidence - Hematology Oncology

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About Oncology: 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.

We are searching for the best talent for Director, Real World Value and Evidence (RWV&E), US Medical Affairs, Hematology-Oncology, located in Horsham, PA.

Purpose: The Director, Real World Value and Evidence (RWV&E), US Medical Affairs, Hematology-Oncology will be responsible for leading the real-world evidence generation strategy, market access scientific strategy, and dissemination plans for a key product in Janssen's Oncology portfolio.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of Associate Directors to deliver on RWV&E stakeholder commitments by providing a stable and inclusive environment.
• Ensure real world evidence and market access scientific support requirements are understood and built-in to the US business plans with value propositions that reflect the needs of key payer stakeholders, population health decision makers.
• Lead scientific strategic planning for RWV&E activities to enable access.
• Formulate key research questions, identify key analytical questions to shape evidence generation strategy, design and conduct studies, plan and conduct market access analytics, manage publications, develop communication materials, and partner with MSL/RWV&E FIELD to ensure effective and compliant communication.
• Ensure projects are aligned to the Integrated Evidence Generation Plan (IEGP) and business needs and executed on time.
• Collaborate with internal and external experts to prioritise and generate rigorous scientific data, and develop dissemination plans to support the therapeutic area’s IEGP.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, legal and commercial regulations in conducting research and dissemination of scientific information.
• Collaborate with cross-functional business partners and alliance partners on scientific strategies to support market access for our products.
• Directly initiate and manage research studies and other related projects.
• Serve as subject matter and functional area expert in responding to U.S-focused Health Technology/Value Assessments of our products by external organisations.
• Ensure quality of design, execution, and publication of real-world evidence studies, and quality of models & tools developed for business partners.
• Develop annual business plan budget, present to appropriate levels of management for approval, and manage budgeted funds appropriately.
• Ensure quality in internal/external communications including publications, training support of RWVE studies, and models and/or tools developed for the therapeutic area.
• Serve as a leader on assigned cross-functional franchise teams, with internal partners such as Scientific Affairs, Marketing, Medical Affairs, Strategic Customer Group, GCSO, Epidemiology, Government Affairs and Policy, others as needed.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• A minimum of a Master’s degree in Public Health, Health Services Research, Economics, Epidemiology, Pharmacy, Health Policy, or a related discipline is required; a doctorate or other advanced degree is preferred.
• A minimum of 8 or more years of relevant research experience.
• Expertise in the healthcare industry, clinical knowledge or practice across multiple therapeutic areas, medical reimbursement, technical expertise in economic evaluations or patient-reported outcomes, including data analysis and statistics.
• Excellent leadership skills, collaboration, influencing and communication (both written and presentation).
• Experience in communicating technical data both internally and externally to non-technical audiences.
• Independent high-level planning and execution of research strategies.
• Solid experience in conducting Real World Evidence studies applying health economics, patient-reported outcomes, retrospective data analyses, epidemiology or health services research.
• Firm understanding of drug development process including health economic inputs needed to support the value proposition.
• Firm understanding of regulatory standards for approval and communication of data.
• Firm understanding of United States health care systems and customers; specifically understanding unique business models and perspectives.
• Firm understanding of the uses of evidence-based medicine and comparative effectiveness analyses for health policy decision-making.
• Up to 30% travel required mostly national with occasional international travel.
• Hematology-Oncology real-world evidence generation experience is preferred.
• Experience in developing and gaining management approval for value-based scientific strategies and tactics to meet both commercial and scientific objectives for a given product or therapeutic area is preferred.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law.