Hybrid Associate Director, Neuroscience Data Strategy

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About the role

  • Associate Director leading data strategy for neuroscience at Johnson & Johnson. Overseeing data initiatives and collaborating with teams to enhance research and insights.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the design and execution of a comprehensive, neuroscience focused data strategy program designed to accelerate research, R&D insights, and evidence generation.
  • Translate R&D Innovative Medicine Neuroscience priorities into an actionable multi-year data roadmap.
  • Prioritize data initiatives based on clinical impact, regulatory readiness, speed to insight, and ROI.
  • Define success metrics and maintain data roadmap with R&D DSDH Neuroscience organization.
  • Lead end to end data-centric discussions across all neuroscience programs (e.g., RWE studies, registries, biobanks, data platform builds, analytic model deployment).
  • Partner with sub-teams, driving data ingestion, curation, transformation and linkage across EHR, claims, genomic, imaging, and registry sources leading to the creation of data products.
  • Orchestrate vendor and external data partner relationships; Managing scopes, service level agreements (SLA) and expectations.
  • Present insights and recommendations to senior leadership; facilitate decision fueled by data-driven insights.

Requirements

  • Masters / PhD or equivalent in relevant scientific, computer science, or business field
  • 8 – 10+ years of experience in pharma/biotech R&D or commercial functions, with significant exposure to procurement and/or data strategy.
  • 6+ years of experience with advanced degree.
  • Hands on experience accessing and working with real world data.
  • Candidate should have experience with R, Python, or another coding language.
  • Experience should include direct responsibility for and/or collaborations with Neuroscience.
  • Deep understanding of neuroscience clinical care, endpoints, staging, biomarker / genomic data, and the regulatory landscape for RWE in neuroscience.
  • Experience designing observational studies, cohort design, causal inference methods, survival analysis and communicating limitations is a plus.
  • Track record negotiating and managing commercial data providers and research vendors.
  • Strong ability to translate complex technical work into business recommendations for cross functional and senior stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to lead small multidisciplinary teams and influence without direct authority.
  • Pragmatic problem solving — focus on delivering usable outcomes quickly and iterating.
  • Strategic thinker who can connect tactical work to long‑term business goals.
  • High standards for data quality, reproducibility, and documentation.
  • Collaboration and stakeholder management across clinical, regulatory, and commercial functions.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Associate Director, Neuroscience Data Strategy

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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