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**Job Function: **
Marketing
**Job Sub Function: **
Strategic Marketing
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description:
Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine is searching for the best talent for a Senior Manager, Competitive Intelligence (CI) & Insights – Cardiopulmonary (CP) DAS to be located in Raritan, NJ.
**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
Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):
United States - Requisition Number: R-072176
Switzerland - Requisition Number: R-074189
Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.
Purpose: The Senior Manager, Competitive Intelligence & Insights – Cardiopulmonary Therapeutic Area is a key functional role responsible for shaping pipeline, portfolio, and commercialization decisions through deep competitive understanding across cardiovascular and pulmonary disease areas.
This role leads end‑to‑end competitive intelligence activities—spanning late‑stage assets through early scientific innovation—and transforms complex data into clear strategic implications, decision scenarios, and actionable recommendations. The position partners closely with Disease Area Strongholds, Commercial, R&D, Market Research, Forecasting, and Business Development teams to ensure leadership decisions are grounded in a comprehensive and forward‑looking view of the competitive landscape.
Key Responsibilities
Competitive Landscape Assessment & Strategic Insight
- Lead comprehensive assessment of the global competitive landscape across Cardiopulmonary disease areas, including:
- Competitor pipeline progress, clinical trial designs, timelines, recruitment status, and data readouts
- Gather, interpret and summarize insights from competitor earning reports and investor calls
- Emerging development strategies and go‑to‑market models
- Synthesize competitive intelligence into clear strategic implications, risks, and opportunities for pipeline and in‑market assets
- Develop and communicate actionable recommendations to key stakeholders, ensuring decisions reflect current and future market dynamics
- Lead competitive scenario planning to support pipeline, lifecycle, and investment decisions
Scientific Congress Intelligence & Insight Generation
- Own competitive intelligence strategy for key scientific congresses across Cardiopulmonary therapy areas
- Develop integrated CI plans (playbooks) with defined intelligence objectives, priority competitors, and focus areas
- Lead cross‑functional and cross‑regional debriefs to drive consistent interpretation, insight synthesis, and alignment
- Ensure timely, clear, and impactful dissemination of insights to senior stakeholders
Market Analysis & New Opportunity Exploration
- Monitor emerging science, targets, and mechanisms of action to identify early-stage competitive and external innovation opportunities
- Conduct competitive due diligence to support early pipeline assessments and Business Development activities
- Translate competitive insights into implications for Target Product Profiles (TPP), lifecycle strategy, forecasting assumptions, and to inform LRFP
- Apply analytical rigor by integrating CI, market research, and secondary data to support data‑driven decision making
Strategic Decision Support & Analytics
- Utilize data, insights, and analytics to create strategic scenarios, option sets, and trade-off assessments
- Enable faster, more aligned decision making by providing structured competitive perspectives tailored to leadership needs
- Partner with Forecasting, Market Research, and Analytics teams to ensure competitive assumptions are consistent and transparent
Collaboration, Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Foster strong cross‑functional collaboration across Therapy Area functions, regions, and advanced asset teams
- Act as a trusted CI thought partner to Disease Area and Commercial leadership
- Lead and inspire matrixed teams through regular competitive landscape reviews and forward‑looking insight discussions
- Manage external vendors supporting primary and secondary CI initiatives, ensuring quality, relevance, and timeliness
- Lead with authenticity to build trust, promote a “One Cardiopulmonary TA” mindset, and reduce internal silos across development and commercialization pathways
Continuous Improvement & Capability Building
- Drive enhancement of competitive intelligence capabilities, tools, and processes
- Introduce innovative CI approaches to elevate organizational effectiveness and strategic clarity
- Embed best practices that improve speed, quality, and impact of competitive insights across the TA
Qualifications / Requirements:
Education:
- Master’s degree in a scientific or related discipline required.
**Required: **
- Minimum of 8 years of professional experience, including at least 3 years in pharmaceutical competitive intelligence or commercial strategy
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex data into strategic insight and clear recommendations
- Experienced in the use of AI tools such as Copilot and LLM to streamline data synthesis, analysis and inform executive summaries
- Strong leadership, stakeholder influence, and matrix‑management capabilities
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with experience supporting senior leadership decisions
- High learning agility and ability to rapidly build expertise in new disease areas or strategic topics
Preferred:
- Experience in cardiovascular, pulmonary, or related disease areas strongly preferred
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 & 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, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
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Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Brand Marketing, Brand Positioning Strategy, Business Alignment, Business Storytelling, Business Valuations, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer Intelligence, Data Analysis, Data-Driven Decision Making, Digital Strategy, Execution Focus, Financial Analysis, Go-to-Market Strategies, Industry Analysis, Market Research, Negotiation, Organizing, Problem Solving, Product Development Lifecycle, Product Portfolio Management, Product Strategies, Program Management, Strategic Thinking, Tactical Planning, 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)).
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