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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 MedTech, 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. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub** **Function:

Epidemiology

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for our **Associate Director, Benefit Risk/Patient Preference** position, to be based in Titusville, NJ; Raritan, NJ; Horsham, PA or Cambridge, MA. Remote work options may be considered on a case-by-case basis and if approved by the Company.

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/

**Purpose:** The Associate Director, Benefit-Risk / Patient Preference will be part of the Benefit-Risk Team within Global Epidemiology in Innovative Medicine and serve as an expert and consultant for benefit-risk methodology, patient preference studies an patient-focused drug development, collaborating with and supporting Johnson & Johnson colleagues in cross-functional teams across The Office of the Chief Medical Officer, R&D and the Global Commercial Strategy Organization.

You will be responsible for:

Leading structured benefit-risk assessments and patient preference studies including:

+ Guiding clinical teams in benefit-risk assessment of products in development

+ Leading preference studies to support products in development, including designing preference studies for internal advisory boards

+ Applying structured patient preference, benefit-risk and decision analysis methods throughout the development lifecycle

+ Contributing as an author to internal and regulatory documents (e.g. statistical analysis plans, submission documents)

+ Serving as an internal subject matter expert on these topics

Keeping up to date with guidance and policy produced by regulatory agencies and other critical organizations regarding methodologies for benefit-risk assessment, patient preference studies and patient-focused drug development. Standard tools expected to be used in this role include:

+ Benefit-risk frameworks

+ Value trees

+ Statistical analysis plans

+ Effects tables

+ Qualitative and quantitative preference methods

Lead benefit-risk and preference studies for development strategy, dose selection, clinical trials, regulatory documents, health authority advisory committee meetings, safety decisions, treatment access and providing guidance on use of real-world evidence in benefit-risk assessment.

Assist with internal benefit-risk process development and training, developing novel means to communicate and display preference and benefit-risk information, participating in external benefit-risk methodology and policy activities, authoring publications on their research and presenting at internal/external meetings.

Work closely with members of the Global Epidemiology, Clinical and Global Medical Safety departments and collaborate with colleagues in cross-functional teams in performing these responsibilities.

Qualifications / Requirements:

Education:

+ Master’s degree in Decision Sciences, Health Economics, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Public Health, or a related scientific discipline required; PhD or MD strongly preferred. MD applicants must also have a degree or certificate in one of these disciplines.

Required:

+ A minimum of 5 years (3 year for PhD or MD) of hands-on experience in patient preference, benefit-risk, applied statistical or epidemiologic research

+ Knowledge of current academic/regulatory/industry trends in structured benefit-risk, preference studies and patient-focused drug development.

+ Experience using structured benefit-risk frameworks (e.g., FDA benefit-risk framework, BRAT, PrOACT-URL) and/or experience with patient preference studies (e.g., discrete choice experiments, best-worst scaling, threshold technique).

+ Experience leading projects with multi-stakeholder teams (e.g., clinical, statistics, regulatory) on technical projects.

+ Experience presenting technical topics to clinical/medical audiences.

+ Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills.

+ The ability to collaborate with all levels in a cross-functional team environment.

+ Strong problem-solving skills.

+ Strong self-management skills with a focus on timely completion of competing deliverables.

Preferred:

+ Experience with tabular and graphical displays of benefit-risk data.

+ Experience in quantitative benefit-risk assessment (e.g., multi-criteria decision analysis, SMAA).

+ Experience with decision analysis (e.g., decision trees, strategy tables, sensitivity analyses).

+ Basic understanding of epidemiology methods.

+ Experience with writing statistical methods sections of study proposals or statistical analysis plans.

+ Experience working with Health Authorities.

+ Experience working in a regulated biomedical/life science product development environment.

+ Experience with analytical or statistical tools (e.g., R, SAS, Stata, MATLAB).

+ Publication record or evidence of scholarship in patient preference studies, benefit-risk assessment or related topics.

Other:

+ This position will require up to 20% domestic and international travel (up to 10% for individuals located at one of the New Jersey or Pennsylvania sites).

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:

Advanced Analytics, Critical Thinking, Data Privacy Standards, Disease Management, Emergency Planning, Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Financial Competence, Industry Analysis, Public Health, Public Health Surveillance, Researching, Research Proposals, Scientific Communications, Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility, Vendor Management

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$137,000.00 - $235,750.00

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