Johnson and Johnson

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:

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:

Data Science

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for Senior Director, J&J Innovative Medicine R&D Data Science and Digital Health, Real-World Evidence and Advanced Analytics

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 Data Science and Digital Health Analytics & Insights team within Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicines develops innovative insights and solutions bringing to bear a variety of different data sources across multiple disease areas. We are looking for outstanding scientist and leader whose responsibilities include:

• Independently lead, manage, and mentor a large multidisciplinary team of Data Science Real World Evidence Analytics and Insights scientists to influence strategy and execute on the priorities, building a roadmap to deliver the projects from data feasibility, study design and analysis, to final presentation to senior cross-functional leaders.
• Partner with the Data Science Therapeutic Area leaders to conceptualize, lead, shape and deliver Real World Evidence, and advanced analytics solutions and insights for prioritized use cases. Also, drive large strategic and complex projects to achieve the intended impact in a timely manner.
• Be a hands-on technical leader instituting best practices, and developing common technical tools, while crafting a data-driven culture, of accelerating, scaling and prodcutionalizing deliverables while mentoring and educating the RWE and advanced analytics team in the adoption of technical best practices and common tools.
• Identify common technical requirements for RWE projects, develop and maintain a common suite of tools that enables RWE data scientists to accelerate delivery and scale common deliverables.
• End-to-end expertise in RWE studies including conceptualizing the research questions, data feasibility, study design, analysis, and interpretation.
• Provide thought leadership and hand-on expertise for developing, adapting and delivering Real-World Data (“RWD”) methodologies to mitigate observed and unobserved bias and confounding in the execution of comparative effectiveness analyses, time-to-event analyses, external control arm studies, hybrid control arm studies, retrospective and prospective study designs.
• Provide thought leadership and hand-on study design and analysis expertise to generating RWE or secondary evidence from post-hoc RCT analyses, observational databases, and literature reviews to support regulatory agency interactions.
• Independently create study protocols, statistical analysis plans, and statistical programming deliverables including analysis-ready data, tables, and figures using appropriate statistical analysis software while instituting best practices for execution across the broader team.
• Develop an RWE strategy that distinguishes Data Science Analytics & Insights through validating real-world methods and developing novel designs leading to intellectual property patents or publication.
• Experience creating pipelines, functions, packages to perform frequently used actions and/or deliverables across broad group of stakeholders.

Required qualifications:

• A Ph.D. degree, or master’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., epidemiology, statistics, biostatistics, health economics or similar)
• At least 10 years of relevant experience within start-up, technology, biopharma or healthcare industries, or highly relevant academic experience, on a case-by-case basis
• Extensive hands-on experience with statistical modeling, time-to-event analyses, comparative effectiveness analyses, causal inference methods to mitigate observed and residual confounding (e.g., propensity score matching/weighting, instrumental variables, state transition models)
• Demonstrated expertise in RWE oncology analytics and specialty databases (examples include Flatiron Health, COTA, ConcertAI, etc.). Expertise in RWD-based externally controlled studies in oncology drug development
• Demonstrated expertise with multiple real-world data sources (EHR, insurance claims, registry data). Familiarity with data structure and programming of clinical trial data
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Extensive experience with database programming and use of statistical programming languages including expert proficiency in either, R or Python working proficiency in SAS and SQL.
• Demonstrated experience as a technical lead in developing, testing and maintaining technical frameworks for RWE analyses.
• Extensive knowledge of RWE Common Data Models (OMOP, FHIR, i2b2) & Analysis frameworks (OHDSI, pharmaverse)

Preferred qualifications:

• Expertise in drug development and in working in a matrixed organization
• Experience in generating HTA- and regulatory-grade evidence, communicating and responding to agency reviews and comments.

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.

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The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$193,000 - $333,500

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Employees and/or eligible dependents may be 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.  Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).  This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.  Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: – Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year – Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – up to 56 hours per calendar year – Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year – Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Additional information can be found through the link below.