Senior Director External Innovation, DPDS

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 Med Tech, 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.

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La Jolla, California, United States of America, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jonson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Research & Development is recruiting a Senior Director External Innovation, DPDS (Synthetic Modality Focused), located in either San Francisco or San Diego

At Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines, we are working to create a world without disease. Transforming lives by finding new and better ways to prevent, intercept, treat and cure disease inspires us. We bring together the best minds and pursue the most promising science.

As the molecular invention and product development engine of Research & Development for J&J Innovative Medicine, Discovery, Product Development and Supply (DPDS) aims to unlock the potential of the most promising disease targets and drug candidates, regardless of source, stage, or modality, to discover, develop and deliver transformational medicines for patients.

Within DPDS, the External Innovation team is now looking for an extraordinary Senior Director who is passionate about taking a leadership role to identify, shape, onboard, and nurture external partnerships that support the DPDS innovation strategy.

You will be a senior member of the Global External Innovation Team DPDS with overall strategic and operational responsibility for scouting and evaluation of external opportunities in the West North America (WNA) region with a particular emphasis and deep expertise in synthetic modalities (small molecules, peptides, oligonucleotides and platforms to support their discovery/development). You will need to have strong business acumen and the ability to understand the DPDS overall innovation strategy and how it connects to the TA’s strategic priorities.

You must also have the necessary experience and scientific imagination to recognize early stage innovation that has the potential to significantly improve patient outcomes in the future.

The expectation is that this leader will – as proactive discussion partner for the TA representatives in the broad WNA region – take the lead to optimize the DPDS / TA interface in order to deliver against our current and future portfolio of therapeutics. You will also support global External Innovation Team DPDS with local scouting and transactional support in collaboration with sourcing and activation functions.

• In partnership with your local biologic modalities counterpart lead the WNA component of the advancement of external technological innovation within DPDS in alignment with strategy and in support of the vision of Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicines
• Work closely with the rest of the Global DPDS EI team to bring innovation opportunities from the WNA region into a global view and help to assess the science to choose the best opportunities to move forward independent of geography
• Present to senior stakeholders on science and technology explaining strategic alignment and acting as a champion whilst keeping a strong eye on the data to support an opportunity
• Develop a broad and effective cross-functional network; build positive and productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Act as the voice of J&J Innovative Medicine to external biotech companies, academic institutes and other external partners (conferences, partnering events etc) in the WNA region, talking eloquently about J&J priorities and presenting J&J as a preferred partner.
• In partnership with J&J Business development, External Scientific…