Director, New Products Value and Evidence

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Job Function:

Market Access

Job Sub Function:

Health Economics Outcomes Research

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Director, New Products Value and Evidence

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

We are searching for the best talent for a Director, New Products Value and Evidence,  to be located in Titusville, NJ.

In a rapidly evolving U.S. healthcare environment, ensuring patient access to innovative treatments requires early, integrated planning across evidence generation, market access, and policy. The Scientific Evidence & Policy Research organization generates payer and stakeholder insights, develops rigorous and differentiated value evidence, conducts timely real-world data analytics, and communicates the value of Johnson & Johnson innovations to support healthcare decision-making and access.

Purpose: In this position, the Director, New Products Value and Evidence (NPV&E), will lead U.S. market access scientific strategy, evidence generation, and dissemination planning for pipeline products. The Director will anticipate evolving payer, policy, and value-assessment requirements—including implications of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), as appropriate—to support evidence-based development decisions, launch readiness, and sustained patient access.

You will be responsible for:

• Ensure that real-world evidence and market access scientific requirements are identified early and integrated into U.S. development and business plans. Develop evidence to support differentiated value propositions reflecting the needs of payer and other access stakeholders, and lead NPV&E strategic planning to support development decisions, launch readiness, and sustained access.
• Lead NPV&E strategy and execution, including formulating priority research questions; identifying analytical needs that inform market access and development strategy; designing and conducting studies and market access analytics; managing publications; developing evidence and access communication materials; and partnering with V&ESE Field to enable effective, compliant scientific exchange with payer and other access stakeholders.
• Ensure that NPV&E priorities are integrated into the Integrated Evidence Generation Plan (IEGP), aligned with business, payer, policy, and patient evidence needs, and executed with appropriate quality and timeliness.
• Engage internal and external experts to refine evidence priorities and strengthen the scientific rigor and relevance of evidence-generation and dissemination plans.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory, legal and commercial regulations (for example Contract Pricing Committee, Copy Approval Committee) in conducting research and dissemination of scientific information
• Assess the potential implications of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and other evolving U.S. policy and reimbursement changes for pipeline assets, and translate those implications into early evidence priorities, development decisions, and lifecycle evidence needs, as appropriate.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate market access evidence needs into actionable scientific strategies and development recommendations for assigned products.
• Initiate and manage selected research studies and related projects, including scope, timelines, resources, vendor oversight, and delivery of decision-relevant outputs.
• Serve as the NPV&E subject-matter and functional expert for U.S.-focused health technology assessments, value assessments, and other external evidence reviews of assigned products, coordinating cross-functional responses and evidence strategies as appropriate.
• Establish and maintain quality standards for the design, execution, interpretation, and publication of real-world evidence studies and for models and tools developed for business partners.
• Develop annual business plan budget, present to appropriate levels of management for approval, and manage budgeted funds appropriately
• Ensure quality in internal / external communications including: publications, training support of RWVE studies, and models and/or tools developed to support the product.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Education: A minimum of a Master's degree in Public Health, Health Services Research, Economics, Epidemiology, Pharmacy, Health Policy, or a related discipline is required; a doctorate or other advanced degree is preferred.

Experience and skills:

Required:

A minimum of 7 or more years of relevant research experience.

Expertise in healthcare industry, clinical knowledge or practice across multiple therapeutic areas, medical reimbursement, technical expertise in economic evaluations or patient reported outcomes, including data analysis and statistics.

Demonstrated leadership, collaboration, influencing, and communication skills, including the ability to translate complex scientific and technical information into clear, decision-relevant insights for diverse audiences.

Serve as a leader on the assigned cross-functional franchise teams pertaining to observational data or research, market access scientific strategy, payer insights/ data needs, etc.

Experience in communicating technical data both internally and externally to non-technical audiences.

Independent high-level planning and execution of research strategies.

Solid experience in conducting Real World Evidence studies applying health economics, patient-reported outcomes, retrospective data analyses, epidemiology or health services research.

Firm understanding of drug development process including health economic inputs needed to support the value proposition.

Firm understanding of regulatory standards for approval and communication of data.

Strong understanding of the U.S. healthcare system, payer and access stakeholders, reimbursement models, health technology and value assessment, and the evolving policy environment that influences evidence expectations and patient access.

Firm understanding of the uses of evidence-based medicine and comparative effectiveness analyses for health policy decision-making.

Up to 30% travel required mostly national with occasional international travel.

Preferred:

Experience in developing and gaining management approval for value-based scientific strategies and tactics to meet both commercial and scientific objectives for a given product or therapeutic area.

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.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Business Savvy, Critical Thinking, Data Savvy, Developing Others, Economic Conditions, Health Economics, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Market Opportunity Assessment, Operations Management, Outcomes Research, People Performance Management, Pharmacoeconomics, Pricing Strategies, Product Portfolio Management, Relationship Building, Tactical Planning

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$164,000.00 - $282,900.00

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)).

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

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