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**Job Function: **
Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development
**Job Sub Function: **
Biotherapeutics R&D
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Job Description:
Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Senior Director, Scientific Integration, located in Malvern, PA.
About Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
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.
Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.
Position Summary
The Senior Director, Scientific Integration is a senior leadership role responsible for scientific integration (program strategic and technical leadership), strategy and innovation, and business operations across the biologics R&D portfolio within Drug Product Development & Delivery (DPD&D). This leader operates at the intersection of science, portfolio execution, and enterprise leadership – ensuring alignment across therapeutic areas, modalities, and global stakeholders.
This role requires the ability to influence senior internal leaders and external partners, navigate complex matrixed environments, and drive alignment across early and late stage development programs to enable successful regulatory submissions, approvals and commercialization readiness.
Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- Lead scientific integration (program strategic and technical leadership) across early and late-stage biologics programs; drive strategic, technical, and intellectual leadership across programs/projects.
- Provide senior scientific direction and mentorship to scientific integrators (DPD&D program leaders); lead and elevate an established team of senior scientific leaders (leader of leaders).
- Influence and align senior internal stakeholders and external colleagues/partners across regions, therapeutic areas, and functional areas.
- Drive resolution of complex functional and cross-functional issues across a highly matrixed stakeholder landscape.
- Lead portfolio-level alignment across Oncology, Immunology, and Neuroscience in a TA-agnostic capacity.
- Operate across modalities including proteins/biologics, synthetics, drug delivery systems and combination products, and enabling platform technologies.
- Contribute to innovation strategy, intellectual property considerations, and business operations within DPD&D and Discovery, product Development & Supply.
- Ensure alignment toward regulatory submission and launch readiness through integrated portfolio leadership.
- Familiarity with digital approaches (e.g., AI/ML, modeling, in silico) is an advantage (not a primary selection driver).
Qualifications
- PhD in a relevant area of study (e.g., Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemical Engineering), or Master’s degree with equivalent industry experience will be considered.
- 15+ years of relevant experience, including significant expertise in biotherapeutics product development, drug delivery systems, and the overall drug development process.
- Demonstrated track record across multiple R&D disciplines, including early stage, late stage, lifecycle management, and manufacturing/process interfaces.
- Regulatory experience authoring and/or reviewing global marketing applications and dossier content for biologics.
- People leadership experience with direct supervision of senior scientists and leadership of large cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior internal stakeholders and external partners and to deliver results in a complex, matrixed environment.
Location, Relocation & Travel
- Primary location: Malvern, PA
- Relocation: Available within the United States; exceptional international candidates may be considered
- Travel: Approximately 5-10%
- Time zone: East Coast preferred
The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis.
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)).
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 of Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Additional information can be found through the link below. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
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.
**Required Skills: **
Preferred Skills:
Analytical Reasoning, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Control (CMC), Clinical Research and Regulations, Clinical Trial Designs, Developing Others, Drug Discovery Development, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Molecular Diagnostics, Operational Excellence, Pharmacovigilance, Process Improvements, Productivity Planning, Product Strategies, Representing, Scientific Research, Stakeholder Management