Vice President, Head of Neuropsychiatry Late Development

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Job Function:
Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:
Clinical Development & Research – MD

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, San Diego, California, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

At Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R&D, we are committed to translating breakthrough science into medicines that make a difference in the lives of patients, their families, their communities, and the health care ecosystem. 

We are constantly working to maximize our internal scientific excellence and seek to partner with the best external science available globally.  Through this approach, we have become the industry leader in productivity, FDA approvals and breakthrough designations, with 13 new products since 2011 and most NME approvals 2011-2016.  We are also one of the fastest growing and most admired pharmaceutical companies.

We have a strong and ever-evolving discovery organization with labs around the world including in Spring House, PA, Beerse, Belgium, Leiden, The Netherlands, Beijing and Shanghai, China, La Jolla and Cambridge, MA.  More than 15 new compounds are typically advanced per year into development.  We also have one of the very strongest development organizations in the world, committed to working with regulators to progress meaningful medicines, evolving endpoints as needed, using modern and innovative approaches to clinical operations and trial design.   We remain committed to our products after they enter the marketplace, continue to support their evolution within the approved indications and explore their value and suitability in new indications. 

ROLE OVERVIEW:

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Vice President, Head of Neuropsychiatry Development to be based at one of our sites in Titusville, NJ; Cambridge, MA; Spring House, PA; La Jolla, CA.

The VP, Head of Neuropsychiatry (NP) Clinical Development is accountable for strategic leadership and oversight of all Neuropsychiatry related clinical programs and clinical development activities from Phase 2b through the end of Phase 3, certain phase 4 studies may also be in scope.

RESPONSIBILITIES:


* Core member of the Disease Area Leadership Team (DALT) and the Neuroscience Development Leadership Team


* The VP NP has responsibility for the NP development strategy in alignment with Disease...