Senior/ Executive Director, Discovery-Oncology

Job Function:

Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:

Biological Research

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

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.

About Oncology 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. Our Oncology team is focused on the elimination of cancer by discovering new pathways and modalities to finding treatments and cures. We lead where medicine is going and need innovators with an unwavering commitment to results. 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

Senior/ Executive Director, Discovery Oncology

We are searching for the best talent for a Senior/ Executive Director, Discovery Oncology position. You will be responsible for leading and guiding the Oncology discovery research in selected cancer indications. The Senior/Executive Director, Discovery Oncology defines and executes on the strategy for Oncology Discovery. This individual will develop a portfolio of therapeutics addressing core pathways in Oncology from project concept through to entrance into clinical trials. You will also be responsible for:

Responsibilities:

• Leads a global group of approximately 15-30 people (including regular FTEs, temporary contractors and postdoctoral fellows), guiding their science with an emphasis on scientific quality and rigor.
• Creates an environment that values innovation, leadership, scientific excellence, urgency, and personal accountability.
• In partnership with Oncology leadership, including TA head, clinical, strategy and functional leaders, defines the scientific strategy for the TA and develops a portfolio of assets for solid cancer indications
• Manages resource allocations across programs, included shared resources across labs
• As a Disease Area Stronghold discovery leader develops the strategy and executes on it for the end-to-end Oncology portfolio.
• Proactively influences across functional areas and external partners to align project activities with strategic goals.
• Establishes internal and external collaborations to facilitate execution of Discovery strategy.
• Partners with external collaborators and innovation centers to evaluate and discover new approaches, technologies, and targets in support of the Oncology portfolio.
• Partners with business development to evaluate external assets and bring new molecules into the pipeline.
• Runs collaborations with both academic and industry partners.
• Provides management oversight including personal talent development, training, coaching and guidance to discovery scientists
• Ensures compliance with all J&J training, while ensuring safe laboratory working practices for self and reports
• Ensures consistent experiments/data generation for target validation and progression through discovery stages

Leadership Priorities:

• Overseeing and influencing the initiation and the progression of multiple small and large molecules as well as cell therapy discovery research programs that result in the identification and characterization of Clinical Candidates
• Setting and executing the scientific strategy for solid tumor indication(s)
• Acts as an ambassador for the respective Discovery Portfolio with frequent interactions with senior internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrate excellent managerial skills to enable his/her global team to deliver on their objectives and to develop their careers
• Provide input on hiring, promotions, resources and budget allocations within the department
• Directs the proper use and implementation of new technology to establish long-term research plans
• Identifies novel scenarios and nascent scientific/technical opportunities in a specific scientific area
• Communicates overall strategy of the projects to others including senior leadership
• Build collaborative relationships with and influence key stakeholders; internally and externally
• Create a high-performance work environment that values innovation, leadership,