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Job Function:

R&D Operations

Job Sub Function:

Clinical Trial Project Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, 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

This is a remote role available in all states within the US. While specific cities are listed in the Locations section for reference, please note that they are examples only and do not limit your application. We invite candidates from any location to apply.

We are searching for the best talent for Portfolio Engagement Lead, Oncology, which can sit remotely within the United States.
 

Purpose: The Portfolio Engagement Lead (PEL) role is responsible for fostering strategic and business partnerships with key institutions across J&J Innovative Medicine (J&J IM) Oncology clinical development programs and identifies new institutions to strategically partner with J&J IM.

The PEL is accountable for shaping and driving unified and impactful institutional-level partnerships, agreements, and/or alliances, resulting in improved J&J IM operational predictability and site experience, and increasing site acceptance, enrollment and share of enrolled patients.

Additionally, they are accountable for synthesizing site level intelligence, including a deep understanding how trials are performed throughout the ecosystem (e.g., review boards, timelines, IP processes), and the institutions’ evolving business needs, priorities and processes, to shape site-aligned strategies for J&J IM.

Reporting to the Portfolio Engagement Leader, Oncology this role is an essential thought partner and influencer to key leadership roles across the J&J IM Oncology business, such as Oncology Delivery Unit, Disease Area Strongholds, Compound Development Team Leaders, Clinical Leaders, R&D Quality, and Medical Affairs (MAF).

You will be responsible for:

• Fosters a strategic and business partnership across all DASs with a given institution and identifies new institutions that could be strategic partners to J&J IM.
• Understands local clinical trial market dynamics and analyzes and applies data to assess opportunities and priorities, including internal priorities, entity priorities, relevant marketplace trends and the competitive landscape.
• Synthesizes site level intelligence to shape site-aligned strategies and efficiencies for J&J IM, including a deep understanding how trials are performed throughout the ecosystem (e.g., start-up requirements, review boards, timelines, IP processes, patient flow/referrals).
• Based on site intelligence, recommend strategies that may reduce site burden, improve efficiencies, or increase enrollment potential.
• Provides input to the company strategy for Investigator Engagement in partnership with the Patient Site & Engagement organization. Develops annual Strategic Account specific plans that include recommended attendees, agreed upon key objectives, strategies and tactics and records specific activities and results against identified objectives.
• Champions institutional-level partnerships, agreements, and/or alliances.
• Ensures J&J has the latest and deep understanding of the sites’ evolving business needs (e.g., changes in strategy) / changes in ways of working and organization (e.g., institutions’ clinical research models).
• Facilitates/organizes cross-portfolio-level conversations with key operational and clinical stakeholders at institutions.
• Address systemic issues/challenges at a given institution that may impact across the portfolio, e.g., facilitating the development of infrastructure for institutional-level contracting and agreements across trials and sites.
• Responsible for the coordination across the organization to ensure the right J&J teams (e.g., clinical, legal, GCO, MAF, commercial) are informed of relevant information.
• Facilitates institutional roundtables and gatherings to share best practices across sites and the various stakeholders involved in clinical trials.
• Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations and internal standards in all HCP engagement activities.

Principal Relationships:

Internal: Oncology and MAF: DAS Delivery Leaders, Program Delivery Leaders, R&D Oncology TA Leadership, CDTs and Clinical Teams, US and Global MAF, GCO Country Heads, BGIA, Data Science, J&J IM Quality.

External: Investigational sites, Key Opinion Leaders, Patient Engagement Groups, Advocacy groups, Vendors with a focus on study placement or recruiting and retention capabilities.

Qualifications / Requirements:
Education: Bachelors degree in a scientific or health-related discipline is required.

Experience and Skills Required:

• A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience required, with significant oncology drug development experience preferred.
• Deep Understanding of Investigator and KOL engagement and how to optimize their experience.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; fluency in English language required.
• Proven experience in influencing internal stakeholders and managing external partnerships.
• Ability to comfortably communicate clinical trial designs and scientific data clearly and effectively with physicians and scientists.
• Ability to understand and communicate market trends in healthcare related to the impact on the clinical trial delivery landscape across therapeutic areas.
• Experience in developing innovative engagement strategies that are scalable and adaptable.
• Independent thinker with an innovative mindset that can contribute new ideas for consideration.
• Proven strong facilitation skills to run effective meetings that result in clear decisions and assigned next steps. Excellent presentation skills and ability to influence are required.
• Proactive learner, seeks new information and appropriately assimilates into daily job responsibilities
• Up to 50% domestic travel anticipated.

Experience and Skills Preferred:

• Healthcare qualification (e.g. Nursing, Pharmacist, Physician’s assistant) strongly preferred.

• In depth understanding of Oncology drug development in the pharmaceutical industry, and the diverse ecosystem of the US healthcare and clinical trial system.
• Well-organized, able to prioritize and orchestrate strategy to drive approaches to success.
• Self-directed; able to work with limited supervision, and contribute to team objectives.

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The expected base pay range for this position is $137,000.00 - 235,750.
 

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.
 

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are 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.

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 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
• Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member
• Caregiver Leave – 10 days
• Volunteer Leave – 4 days
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours
   

Additional information can be found through the link below.

For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to:

• https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits      
   

The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.
 

This job posting is anticipated to close on 2/26/2026. The Company may, however, extend this time-period, in which case the posting will remain available on https://www.careers.jnj.com to accept additional applications.

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.

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Budgeting, Clinical Trial Designs, Clinical Trials, Compliance Management, Consulting, Contract Management, Execution Focus, Fact-Based Decision Making, Give Feedback, Industry Analysis, Laboratory Operations, Organizing, Process Improvements, Project Integration Management, Research and Development, Research Ethics, Technical Credibility