[Hiring] Group Product Director, Thought Leader Engagement & Professional Education, Urology @Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Role Description

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for Group Product Director, Professional Education & Thought Leader Engagement, GU Oncology. This is a field-based position with significant travel to customers and the home office in Horsham, PA.

This is a field-based role available within the United States. While specific cities are listed in the Locations section for reference, please note that they are examples only and do not limit your application. We invite candidates from any location to apply.

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.

This position is a critical part of the US GU Oncology Customer Engagement team. The individual in this position will be responsible for leading the GU Oncology, Professional Education (Bladder) and Urology Thought Leader Liaison teams.

• Set the strategic direction for Professional Education across the bladder IDRS platform, aligning educational priorities to portfolio strategy, market evolution, and customer needs.
• Own the strategy and lifecycle of branded educational bureau content, ensuring relevance, differentiation, scalability, and sustained impact.
• Build and evolve scalable Professional Education platforms that support current brands, new indications, and future portfolio opportunities.
• Establish governance, quality standards, and performance measures that drive consistency and continuous improvement across Professional Education.
• Optimize Professional Education investments and capabilities using customer insights, market dynamics, and program performance.
• Lead, develop, and empower the TLL and Professional Education organization to execute an integrated thought leader, congress, and customer education strategy.
• Shape the enterprise approach to thought leader engagement, including speaker strategy, emerging expert development, and long-term KOL planning.
• Anticipate market and competitive shifts and translate them into differentiated thought leader engagement and education strategies.
• Build the next generation of urology thought leaders to support long-term GU Oncology portfolio and market development priorities.
• Establish a systematic insight-generation strategy that converts thought leader engagement and advisory boards into actionable business opportunities.
• Serve as a strategic partner to brand leadership, integrating customer engagement priorities into brand strategy, market development, lifecycle planning, and launch readiness.
• Define the strategic role of congresses and external engagement within the broader customer engagement strategy.
• Build the capabilities, measurement framework, and cross-functional partnerships required to strengthen execution and demonstrate impact.

The Business Director must develop, retain and motivate direct reports. The individual will be responsible for the development of all employees within team by supporting the development of Human Resources Planning (HRP) programs including management development and training to meet current and future business needs. In addition, the Director will provide an environment which encourages the company's commitment to equal employment opportunity and the value of a diverse work force.

This is not an exhaustive, comprehensive listing of job functions. May perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant business experience, with demonstrated leadership experience and a strong record of results.
• Oncology/GU clinical acumen and/or scientific background strongly preferred.
• Previous pharmaceutical sales or sales leadership experience required.
• Demonstrated expertise in core marketing competencies, with the ability to translate strategy into effective customer engagement and educational initiatives.
• Strong strategic thinking, business acumen, and analytical capabilities, with the ability to assess portfolio needs and identify growth opportunities.
• Proven ability to lead in a complex, matrixed environment and influence across functions and levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing business needs while balancing long-term strategic direction with executional excellence.
• Ability to partner with brand leadership to assess portfolio needs and shape best-in-class Professional Education strategies and programs.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, with the ability to engage and influence diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Valid U.S. driver’s license required.
• This position is field based and will require up to 40-50% travel within US, with limited international travel.

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 period.
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year.
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year.