Therapeutic Area Manager, Medical Information Scientific Engagement

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Job Function:

Medical Affairs Group

Job Sub Function:

Medical Writing

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines is recruiting for a Therapeutic Area Manager, Medical Information Scientific Engagement to be based in Titusville, NJ.

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
 

Position Summary:
The Therapeutic Area Manager, Scientific Affairs Medical Information Scientific Engagement (SA MISE) is responsible for engaging healthcare professionals (HCP) and other customers in rich scientific dialogue and developing customer materials for use in response to unsolicited medical information requests. This position will serve as a point of contact for US HCP escalations. The Therapeutic Area Manager, SA MISE, will evaluate voice-of-customer trends and provide insights to internal stakeholders. Additionally, this role will provide innovative solutions to optimize delivery of scientific information to customers. The Therapeutic Area Manager, SA MISE, will be responsible for leading the medical information booth at scientific meetings and will conduct training sessions for scientific/product knowledge, mentor MISE team members/fellows, and participate in departmental initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

Medical Information Request Handling (25%)

• Ensures high quality, personalized, cross-portfolio scientific engagement with all customers to demonstrate product and disease area expertise. Provides timely, accurate, thorough, and balanced scientific responses to unsolicited requests for information from internal and external customers consistent with regulatory guidelines and documentation standards with the Customer Relationship Management database. Conducts literature analysis as needed.
• Identifies, captures, and processes adverse events and product quality complaints following regulatory and company policies
• Ensures the highest standard of quality and compliance by supporting MISE quality assurance (QA) measures and confirms robust medical information provided is accurate and consistent
   

Patient Scientific Content Creation (25%)

• Leads the development and maintenance of scientific content for patients for assigned therapeutic area products including patient content for established products
• Conducts authoring and peer review of patient scientific responses for products within assigned therapeutic area
• Collaborates with the Medical Information Content Strategy and Innovation Digital team to help shape and review the innovative content formats for patient responses
   

Escalation Support for Complex Inquiries (10%)

• Leads response creation for US escalated one-off inquiries within assigned therapeutic area
• Conducts peer review of US one-off response(s) created
   

Scientific Training (10%)

• Supports product and disease state-related scientific training
• Manages scientific training content development as needed
   

Voice of Customer and Insights (10%)

• Analyzes Voice of Customer data and identifies actionable insights to share with MISE leaders and internal partners to champion unmet data gap needs to accurately represent the voice of our most important stakeholder, our customers

Medical Information Booth Support at Scientific Meetings (10%)

• Leads Medical Information Booth support at medical congresses, ensures participation in booth training, and completes all Medical Information booth support activities at the end of the congress
   

Supports Departmental Projects and Initiatives (10%)

• Leads/participates in departmental strategic projects and other ad-hoc activities as assigned by leadership to ensure process improvement

Qualifications:

Education:

• BS in Pharmacy or Pharm D. - required
• Medical Information (Residency/Fellowship Training) - preferred

Required Skills:

• Relevant experience in the healthcare field or pharmaceutical industry, typically 1-4 years
• Ability to engage in rich clinical dialogue with healthcare professionals
• Experience in conducting literature analysis
• Ability to build on existing clinical foundation in pursuit of expertise in relevant therapeutic areas
• Skilled in managing complexity and ability to work independently
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners/teams
• Qualified to coach and mentor employees on a one-on-one basis as well as in a group
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite
• Strong organizational skills

Preferred Skills:

• Demonstrates scientific expertise or experience within a therapeutic area relevant to assigned portfolio
• Medical writing experience
• Knowledge in developing responses to scientific inquiries from healthcare professionals and/or consumers
• Experience in gathering voice of customer/customer insights

Other:

This position is based in Titusville, NJ and may require up to 10% overnight domestic travel for conference attendance and company meetings.

 

The expected base pay range for this position is $117,000 to $175,500. 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. 

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are 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. 

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 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  Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member  Caregiver Leave – 10 days   Volunteer Leave – 4 days  Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours 
 

Additional information can be found through the link below.  

For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: -  https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
 

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 and 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 email the Employee Health Support Center  (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Business Writing, Clinical Research and Regulations, Clinical Trials Operations, Coaching, Collaborating, Copy Editing, Data Synthesis, Industry Analysis, Medical Affairs, Medical Communications, Process Improvements, Proofreading, Quality Validation, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility

 

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$117,000.00 - $201,250.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Global healthcare company spanning pharmaceuticals, medtech, and consumer health products. Headquartered in New Brunswick, NJ.

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