The Senior Director, Platform Innovation will report directly to the Innovation Center Leader. The external innovation which the Innovation Centers will be looking for is not only limited to therapeutic assets. External innovation also includes technologies and platforms that can assist in cutting-edge drug discovery or development, whether they are biological, small molecules or other product development technologies. At the same time there may be tools, platforms and expertise in J&J which can be made available to external partners. The Senior Director will represent our platform groups both for attracting new technologies and offering our expertise and capabilities to third parties at the J&J Innovation Centers.
Have an excellent understanding of the J&J R&D capabilities to be able to identify external technologies and platforms which could be of significant incremental value to our own in-house research (based upon Functional input and guidance and in line with our platform strategies)
Identify and assess external technologies together with the functional experts and if appropriate coordinate the on boarding of the external platform technologies of interest into our organization.
Have a deep network within J&J R&D and as such has a good overview of technologies and expertise in J&J which can be made available to interested external Companies.
Work with our functional experts to identify and prioritize capabilities which could be made available to third parties, introduce our capabilities to select partners, support any required transactions together with other IC members and facilitate the collaboration between our functional expert teams and partners. An internal governance and support system will be established.
Have a solid scientific understanding of a diverse array of area’s such as Discovery Sciences, PDMS, JBIO, Clinical Operations etc. and deep functional expertise in at least one or more of these functional areas.
Be highly externally focused and highly networked and closely surrounded by an enabling Innovation Center team.
Partner with R&D Functions and create technology platform needs for your organization are identified and prioritized. At the same time, an inventory must be made as to which technologies and capabilities we want to make available to third parties.
Be part of an expert team that includes , Technical Legal, Finance, Transaction, Alliance Management, Venture Capital, to enable smooth and correct technology and expertise transfer.
Qualifications
A minimum of an Advanced Degree (PhD, Pharm D or MD) with a focus in Biology, Medicine, Engineering, Chemistry, Physical Sciences, Pharmacology or related field is required.
A minimum 10 years relevant experience (professional or academic) in the pharmaceutical industry is also required.
Experience in discovery and drug development is strongly preferred.
Proven track record of successful interactions with academic, biotech and other collaborators, as well as with multiple internal and external organizations is required.
Previous experience within a global organization is strongly preferred.
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