Director, Scientific Licensing Neuroscience, Business Development

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New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is currently seeking a Director, Scientific Licensing, Neuroscience to join our Innovative Medicine Business Development (IM BD) team. This position will be located in either Titusville, NJ, New Brunswick, NJ, or Springhouse, PA.

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.

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J&J IM Business Development is a part of Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC, which is working to accelerate scientific innovation at all stages of development worldwide to deliver cutting‑edge solutions that solve unmet needs for patients. Johnson & Johnson Innovation provides scientists, entrepreneurs, and emerging companies with one‑stop access to the broad resources of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies.

This includes access to deal makers, through the innovation centers located in global life science hot spots and Johnson & Johnson Innovation – J&J IM Business Development; venture investment, through Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC; company incubation, through Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS; as well as R&D, manufacturing, and commercialization expertise.

The Director, Scientific Licensing, Neuroscience is a key member of the Innovative Medicine Business Development team, responsible for advancing the Neuroscience external innovation strategy by identifying and evaluating opportunities aligned with therapeutic priorities. The role builds strategic internal and external scientific relationships, leads opportunity scouting and assessment, and oversees diligence teams across the R&D matrix.

• Accountable for identification of target opportunities and companies via a process by which detailed screening in areas of interest is performed such that no opportunities are missed.
• Building strategic and scientific relationships with representatives of target companies and with KOLs
• Lead the scientific evaluation of opportunities (including the coordination and management of the formal due diligence process) across R&D
• Collaborating with commercial assessment team to provide scientific input to commercial assessment and ensure scientific evaluation addresses key value drivers
• Collaborating with the TA department heads and the VP BD/Sr. Director Licensing for Neuroscience, responsible for ensuring that R+D resources are engaged in an orderly, efficient, timely and cost‑effective manner in the evaluation of licensing opportunities for the TA
• Ensuring all business development opportunities progressing to contracting and beyond meet the internal portfolio standards of scientific excellence, that development risks are identified, adequately communicated, and debated with R&D leadership and that mitigation strategies are captured and accounted for in the development plans and costs
• In collaboration with other IMBD colleagues, contribute to the development and improvement of processes, templates and data capture systems to be applied by the BD group to attain the highest…