[Innovative Medicine] Senior Director, Head of New Business Development, Japan (including Immunology)

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 jnj.com .

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Job Function

Strategy & Corporate Development

Job Sub Function

Business Development

Job Category

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations

Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

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

Lead the Japan New Business Development team and priorities across global external innovation, portfolio optimization and Alliance Management.

You will be responsible for

• Execute and communicate the Japan New Business Development strategy and annual priorities aligned with AP and local strategy.
• Advise the Japan President and local leadership on global external innovation, partnerships, portfolio optimization and alliances.
• Ensure an integrated market perspective across NBD, portfolio optimization and Alliance Management and allocate resources to the highest-value priorities.
• Sponsor participation in priority global NBD assessments and ensure high-quality inputs, forecasts, recommendations and endorsements.
• Ensure a clear “One AP” voice is delivered across all inputs to global innovation projects, integrating Japan and broader AP assumptions, ambition and critical needs so opportunities are fit for purpose for Japan and AP.
• Sponsor systematic local portfolio opportunity identification and alignment with AP priorities and ensure high-quality inputs, forecasts, recommendations and endorsements.
• Sponsor the market alliance portfolio and review governance, risks, resources and value realization.
• Implement AP governance standards, decision rights, documentation and operating cadence.
• Own succession planning, coaching, capability development and talent deployment.
• Hold direct therapeutic-area accountability for Immunology.

Key interfaces

• Regional AP Head of NBD and AP NBD leadership
• Relevant market leadership and accountable business owners
• Regional BD/APSO and relevant therapeutic area or portfolio teams
• Commercial, Medical, Market Access, Regulatory, Finance, Legal, HCC, Supply Chain, R&D and analytics
• External partners and advisers where authorized

Measures of success

• Quality and timeliness of assessments, forecasts and recommendations
• Adoption of insight and strategic recommendations
• Transaction, portfolio or alliance value generated or protected
• Governance adherence, decision quality and milestone delivery
• Stakeholder engagement, capability development and organizational learning

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, life sciences, pharmacy, medicine, finance or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Relevant pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, commercial, finance, strategy, transaction or alliance experience commensurate with level.
• Strong commercial, analytical and financial acumen, scientific literacy and executive communication.
• Ability to shape and lead through influence in complex cross-functional and multicultural environments.
• Commitment to Our Credo, ethics, compliance, privacy and responsible handling of confidential information.

Accountability principles

• Regional NBD recommends the AP position and owns the regional forecast; local NBD owns local inputs.
• For local portfolio transactions, NBD drives the process while the business unit owns the forecast and operational commitments.
• Alliance Management owns partnership health and governance; the business unit owns business performance and P&L.
• Global L&A/M&A execution, global alliance ownership, market portfolio strategy and local Established Products commercial management remain outside AP NBD scope unless specifically delegated.

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Preferred Skills

Alliance Formation, Business Development, Business Valuations, Developing Others, Due Diligence, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Managing Managers, Market Research, Negotiation, Product Marketing Sales, Product Strategies, Relationship Building, Sales Prospecting, Strategic Change, Strategic Sales Planning, Strategic Thinking