Job Function: Human Resources
Job Sub Function: Learning & Instructional Design
Job Category:Professional
All Job Posting Locations:Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Job Description:Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Pipeline Clinical Learning Lead to be based in Horsham, PA.About OncologyOur 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.
Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine
The
Pipeline Clinical Learning Lead sets the clinical learning strategy and develops scientifically rigorous content for assigned J&J Innovative Medicine pipeline assets. The role translates complex and emerging evidence into clear, accurate learning experiences. Learning journeys evolve with each asset from early pipeline awareness and late-stage development through launch readiness and post-approval transition.
What You Will Do- Set the learning strategy. Own the phase-appropriate clinical content and learning strategy for assigned pipeline assets, aligning priorities with evidence maturity, asset milestones, audience needs, launch readiness, and post-approval transition.
- Translate science into learning. Develop accurate, audience-appropriate content on disease state, target biology, mechanism of action, unmet need, development strategy, trial design, efficacy, safety, patient populations, and the evolving treatment landscape.
- Prepare commercial field teams for launch. Create accurate, balanced, and audience-appropriate clinical learning content for commercial field teams before a new product launch, coordinating with commercial learning and compliance partners.
- Lead field medical onboarding content. Own the pipeline clinical-content component of field medical new-hire training, ensuring curricula build foundational disease-state, product, and scientific-exchange capabilities.
- Create reusable content. Build modular source content that supports consistent development of learning modules, clinical backgrounders, facilitator resources, assessments, and field-facing tools.
- Partner across functions. Work with clinical development, medical affairs, safety, regulatory, evidence generation, and therapeutic-area experts to understand pipeline strategy, emerging data, asset milestones, and learner needs.
- Lead review and approval. Coordinate scientific, medical, and compliance review; reconcile feedback; document decisions; and ensure content is accurate, balanced, substantiated, and appropriate for its intended use.
- Keep content current. Monitor literature and source data, verify references, manage versions and dependencies, and update or retire content as evidence, safety information, development strategy, and business priorities change.
- Deliver through a matrixed model. Manage multiple assets, stakeholders, vendors, review cycles, timelines, and deliverables while providing clear scientific direction and maintaining high quality standards.
What You Bring- Scientific and clinical fluency: Ability to critically evaluate full-text literature and source data; interpret efficacy, safety, subgroup, biomarker, and statistical results; and distinguish established evidence from emerging findings.
- Drug development knowledge: Understanding of clinical development plans, trial phases, study design, endpoints, evidence generation, regulatory milestones, and launch-readiness needs.
- Scientific writing and learning design: Ability to create clear narratives and structure complex material into progressive, engaging, and reusable learning experiences for audiences with different levels of knowledge.
- Content quality and governance: Strong citation, annotation, version-control, and documentation practices, with experience supporting cross-functional review in a regulated environment.
- Collaboration and influence: Ability to build trusted partnerships, clarify decisions, reconcile diverse feedback, and communicate effectively with scientific and business stakeholders.
- Project and vendor leadership: Ability to set clear briefs, provide scientific direction, prioritize work, manage timelines and review cycles, and evaluate deliverables against quality and business requirements.
- Adaptability and innovation: Curiosity, sound judgment, and a continuous-improvement mindset, including appropriate use of digital and AI-enabled approaches with human scientific oversight and protection of confidential information.
Required Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in life sciences, learning and development, or a related field.
- At least 7 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, including clinical learning, field medical, scientific communications, medical affairs, or a related area.
- Demonstrated experience interpreting clinical data and developing high-quality scientific content.
- Strong scientific writing, editing, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Experience navigating cross-functional scientific review and approval processes in a regulated environment.
Preferred Qualifications- Advanced degree, such as a PharmD, PhD, MD, NP, MS, or MA.
- Experience supporting pipeline assets, pre-launch or launch-readiness initiatives, or field medical onboarding.
- Experience in Immunology or Oncology.
Required Skills: Preferred Skills:Coaching, Cultural Competence, Facilitation, HR Strategic Management, Instructional Design, Instructional Development, Learning and Development (L&D), Learning and Development Operations, Learning Culture, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), Organizing, Quality Assurance (QA), Reporting and Analysis, Talent Management, Technical Credibility, Training Delivery Methods, Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
