Job Function: Strategy & Corporate Development
Job Sub Function:
Strategic Planning
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description:
About Innovative Medicine
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
We are searching for the best talent for a Sr. Manager, Bioethics, Policy & Partnerships (BPP).
Purpose: The Sr. Manager, Bioethics, Policy & Partnerships (BPP) will report to the Director, Bioethics, Policy, & Partnerships (BPP) and will be responsible for providing project management (PM) support for the BPP team and selected Office of the Chief Medical Officer (OCMO) priorities. This role does not develop or deliver content; but provides critical project management support to enable OCMO strategies.
You will be responsible for:
Project Management (PM) Support for OCMO communications-related activities
- Partners with OCMO colleagues and external communications agencies to execute cross-OCMO communications strategy.
- Partners with OCMO Strategy and Operations (S&O) support personnel and functional area representatives to coordinate the execution of internal employee communications (e.g. town halls).
- Develops and maintains an OCMO Communications plan for town halls and other employee communications, including milestones, owners, dependencies, review cycles, and final delivery dates.
Project Management (PM) Support for OCMO Policy Stewardship Process
- Partners with BPP Policy Integration & Education team to support the implementation and execution of the OCMO Policy Stewardship process. This includes but is not limited to stakeholder outreach to ensure timely resolution and tracking of outcomes.
- Builds and manages policy stewardship workplans that map each policy through intake, assessment, stakeholder consultation, drafting, review, approval, implementation, and periodic reassessment.
- Coordinates stakeholder outreach and review cycles, consolidates comments, tracks disposition of feedback, and confirms resolution of open issues and approvals.
- Maintains a centralized tracker of policy owners, accountable decision-makers, review dates, dependencies, risks, decisions, and implementation commitments.
- Prepares concise status updates and governance materials that highlight progress, upcoming milestones, overdue actions, decision points, and matters requiring escalation.
General
- Leads or supports other project management assignments identified by the Director, BPP in support of BPP- and OCMO-level priorities. Projects may include strategic initiatives, governance support, or other activities that advance OCMO strategy.
- Translates strategic priorities into executable workplans with defined scope, roles, deliverables, success measures, and governance checkpoints.
- Supports committee and governance operations by coordinating agendas, pre-reads, meeting logistics, minutes, action tracking, and follow-up on decisions.
- Facilitates project kickoffs and recurring status meetings; prepares agendas, documents decisions, assigns action items, and follows up with owners through completion.
- Coordinates inputs and approvals across OCMO functions and agency partners, identifies schedule or resource conflicts, and escalates risks with recommended mitigation options.
- Maintains practical project controls, such as status dashboards, action logs, decision logs, risk and issue registers, and version-controlled repositories for approved materials.
- Conducts project closeouts and lessons-learned reviews, documents outcomes, and applies improvements to templates, tools, and future ways of working.
Qualifications / Requirements:
Education: A Bachelor’s degree is required. A Master’s degree in life sciences is strongly preferred.
Experience and Skills:
- A minimum of 5 years of increasing business experience with a pharmaceutical/biotech/MedTech company is required.
- Previous R&D/scientific experience required.
- Demonstrated ability to develop as well as implement work product/documents within an R&D setting is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, build alignment across functions, and facilitate teams to deliver outcomes is required.
- Demonstrated project management capability, including development and management of integrated plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and deliverables, is required.
- Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain accurate, timely follow-through, are required.
- High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and well-developed interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to navigate sensitive matters and diverse stakeholder perspectives, are required.
- Project management; exceptional organization and attention to detail; influencing without authority; and high emotional intelligence (EQ) is required.
- Experience on a product development team is highly preferred.
- Consistent track record of identifying, quantifying, and mitigating risk in a balanced manner, so as to meet ethical, legal and compliance standards and business objectives is preferred.
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Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Alliance Formation, Business Planning, Business Savvy, Corporate Communications, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Data Reporting, Financial Forecasting, Mentorship, Operational Excellence, Organizing, Performance Measurement, Problem Solving, Regulatory Environment, Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Analysis, Strategic Change, Strategic Thinking, Technical Credibility
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$122,000.00 - $212,750.00
Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are 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.
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
