Director, Search & Evaluate- Asia Pacific

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 https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:
Strategy & Corporate Development

Job Sub Function:
Strategic Partnerships & Alliances

Job Category:
Professional

All Job Posting Locations:
Shanghai, China

Job Description:

Director, Search & Evaluate- Asia Pacific

Title: Director, Search & Evaluate-Asia Pacific

Department: External Scientific Innovation

Band:        D1 (Director)

Location: Shanghai, China    

Reports to: Sr Director, Search & Evaluation                  

Johnson & Johnson Innovation

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 Pharmaceuticals 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 https://www.jnj.com/.  

The aim of Johnson & Johnson’s external innovation group is to successfully compete for the top science and transformational innovation externally, including at universities, biotech companies and elsewhere in the life sciences industry ecosystem, allowing J&J to build the best healthcare pipeline, advancing transformative products and services for patients. 

Johnson & Johnson’s external innovation group is seeking a Director, Search & Evaluation Asia Pacific, based in Shanghai, China.

The Director will be a member of the External Scientific Innovation (ESI) team, reporting to the Regional Senior Director of Search & Evaluation.

This role is to source the on-strategy external innovation opportunity across all TAs, and involves engaging with the external innovation community, including academia, venture capital, and the startup ecosystem, while collaborating with internal teams to advance opportunities from identification and incubation to diligence, and to translate Therapeutic Area Early-Stage External Innovation strategies (near-, medium-, and long term) into regional sourcing and activation plans that will deliver high impact science to our pipeline.

This leader will be responsible for proactively shaping and nurturing key relationships and stakeholders (prioritized academic research centers, venture capital investors, life science and health technology incubators and start-...