Associate Director - Publications & Evidence Strategy, Neuroscience

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Job Function:

Medical Affairs Group

Job Sub Function:

Medical Affairs

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for an Associate Director, Publications & Evidence Strategy – Neuroscience located in Titusville, NJ. 

About Neuroscience

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.

Our Neuroscience team tackles the world’s toughest brain health challenges including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, myasthenia gravis, epilepsy, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and autism. This patient-focused team helps address some of the most complex diseases of our time.

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

The Associate Director, Publications & Evidence Strategy – Neuroscience will lead publication strategy development, planning, and execution across the U.S. Neuroscience portfolio. This role will translate medical strategy, integrated evidence generation plans, evidence gaps, anticipated data readouts, and external scientific needs into differentiated publication strategies that define scientific objectives, narratives, priority audiences, channels, sequencing, and measures of impact across products, indications, evidence types, and lifecycle stages.

This individual will serve as the publications and evidence strategy subject-matter expert and portfolio-level coordination point for U.S. Medical Affairs. The role will partner closely with Therapeutic Area Leads, Medical Directors, evidence-generation teams, Global Medical Affairs, Real-World Evidence, Biostatistics, Medical Communications, Field Medical, Regulatory, Legal, Health Care Compliance, external authors, and agencies. The role is accountable for strategic quality, scientific rigor, operational excellence, transparency, and adherence to applicable company processes and publication standards.

Key Responsibilities

Publications & Evidence Strategy Development and Portfolio Planning

• Lead development, annual refresh, and execution of integrated U.S. publications and evidence dissemination strategies and plans across CAPLYTA®, SPRAVATO®, INVEGA® long-acting injectables, and Neuroscience pipeline assets.
• Translate medical strategy, integrated evidence generation plans, evidence gaps, anticipated data readouts, and external scientific needs into clear publications and evidence strategy objectives, scientific narratives, priority audiences, channels, sequencing, and timelines.
• Develop differentiated publications and evidence strategies by product, indication, evidence type, and lifecycle stage while maintaining an integrated cross-portfolio view of Neuroscience priorities.
• Identify strategic publication opportunities, evidence dependencies, data gaps, duplication, competitive considerations, resource constraints, and risks; recommend prioritization and mitigation actions to Medical Affairs leadership.
• Define publication success measures and use publication performance, audience engagement, literature trends, and stakeholder insights to optimize strategy and future plans.
• Partner with U.S., regional, and global medical leaders to align publication strategies and ensure U.S. evidence needs, scientific narratives, and audience priorities are represented.
• Provide publication strategy leadership for launch readiness, lifecycle management, congress planning, major evidence milestones, and integrated evidence dissemination planning.
• Facilitate cross-functional publication strategy workshops and governance forums to drive alignment, decisions, accountability, and timely execution.

Publication Development and Delivery

• Drive manuscripts, abstracts, posters, oral presentations, plain-language summaries where applicable, and other peer-reviewed scientific communications from strategic concept and data-disclosure decision through submission, presentation, publication, and archiving.
• Facilitate interpretation and synthesis of clinical, real-world, health outcomes, and other scientific evidence with study teams, statisticians, medical writers, and authors.
• Ensure publication content is scientifically rigorous, accurate, balanced, clear, and consistent with the underlying evidence.
• Lead timeline and dependency management, identify risks early, and establish recovery plans to protect critical congress and journal milestones.
• Support appropriate dissemination planning following publication, including internal scientific awareness and field medical readiness.

Governance, Standards, and Quality

• Serve as a U.S. publications subject-matter expert for applicable J&J policies, procedures, systems, and review pathways.
• Ensure work is conducted in accordance with company policies, publication standards, and industry guidelines, including current GPP, ICMJE, CONSORT, and applicable journal and congress requirements.
• Support transparent and appropriate authorship, contributor recognition, conflicts-of-interest disclosure, data transparency, and documentation of publication decisions.
• Coordinate required medical, legal, regulatory, compliance, and functional reviews while preserving scientific integrity and publication quality.
• Maintain accurate publication records, approvals, decision history, version control, and audit-ready documentation in designated systems.

Cross-Functional and External Collaboration

• Lead cross-functional publication planning and execution forums across the Neuroscience portfolio.
• Build strong partnerships with Therapeutic Area Leads, Medical Directors, evidence-generation owners, Real-World Evidence, Biostatistics, Medical Communications, Field Medical, and Global Medical Affairs.
• Engage external authors, investigators, academic collaborators, journal editors, congress organizers, medical writers, and publication agencies with professionalism and scientific credibility.
• Clarify roles, decision rights, escalation pathways, and handoffs across matrix teams to improve speed, accountability, and quality.
• Communicate portfolio status, strategic choices, risks, impact, and resource needs clearly to Medical Affairs leadership.

Agency, Budget, and Operational Management

• Provide strategic and operational oversight to publication agencies, medical writers, and other external partners.
• Develop annual publication budget requirements, track forecasts and spending, and support resource prioritization across products and deliverables.
• Establish performance expectations and monitor agency quality, responsiveness, timeline adherence, and value.
• Use publication management tools and dashboards to track deliverables, cycle times, milestones, risks, and plan execution.
• Drive process improvement and scalable ways of working across the Neuroscience publication portfolio.

Requirements:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, healthcare, or related discipline. An advanced scientific or healthcare degree is preferred. Advanced scientific or healthcare degree, such as PhD, PharmD, MD, DO, MPH, MSN, or Neuroscience, psychiatry, neurology, or central nervous system therapeutic-area experience

Required

• 5–7 years of relevant experience in Scientific Communications, Medical Affairs, Publications, Clinical Research, Medical Communications, or related pharmaceutical industry functions
• Demonstrated experience developing publications and evidence strategies that integrate medical objectives, evidence plans, scientific narratives, audience needs, and data-disclosure priorities.
• Demonstrated experience leading publication planning and execution, including manuscripts, abstracts, posters, congress presentations, and related deliverables.
• Ability to critically evaluate, interpret, and communicate clinical and scientific data.
• Working knowledge of publication ethics, authorship principles, peer-review processes, and applicable publication standards.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and managing multiple complex projects in a highly matrixed organization.
• Experience managing external agencies, medical writers, vendors, timelines, and budgets.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to travel up to 15%, including occasional overnight travel, based on business needs.
• This position is located in Titusville, NJ and follows a hybrid schedule of three days in the office and up to two days remote per week.

Preferred

• U.S. Medical Affairs experience supporting marketed products, pipeline assets, launch readiness, and lifecycle evidence dissemination.
• Experience across clinical trials, post hoc analyses, real-world evidence, health outcomes research, and investigator-initiated research.
• Experience with publication management platforms, digital workflow tools, performance analytics, and portfolio-level reporting.
• Certified Medical Publication Professional credential or comparable publication-science training.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across functions and communicate complex scientific and strategic issues to senior leaders.

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, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

AI solution evaluation, Analytical Reasoning, Clinical Research and Regulations, Clinical Trials Operations, Communication, Content Evaluation, Developing Others, Digital Culture, Digital Literacy, Healthcare Trends, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Medical Affairs, Medical Communications, Medical Compliance, Prioritization, Product Strategies, Scientific Research, Strategic Thinking, Team Management

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $137,000 to $235,750.

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

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)). • This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program. • 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