[Innovative Medicine] Director, Launch and Marketing Excellence Department

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:
Marketing

Job Sub Function:
Strategic Marketing

Job Category:
Professional

All Job Posting Locations:
Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

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.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Role & Responsibility:

This role leads a team of 3–4 members to drive launch and marketing excellence across all three business units in Japan.

The Launch Excellence team rigorously tracks launch preparation progress and proactively rallies cross-functional teams to resolve issues and ensure readiness for successful launches.

The Marketing Excellence team assesses marketing capabilities and delivers targeted capability-building programs to strengthen our marketers’ skills.
Additionally, this role represents Japan in the Asia Pacific Launch and Marketing Excellence forum, securing support and resources to advance local initiatives and help shape regional priorities and strategies.

About the Job

1.

Oversees Launch Readiness of prioritized brands 


* Facilitate cross functional team discussion and collaboration in preparation for launch  



* Ensure launch dashboards/ KPIs accurately reflects launch status  



* Work closely with the cross functional teams to ensure resolution of emerging issues   

2.

Lead systematic sharing of learnings and best practices from brands across the organization  

3.

Lead team members to successfully execute defined priorities to drive Marketing organizational and individual capabilities (e.g.

Integrated Brand Planning process, Marketer Skill assessment and training delivery)  

4.

Actively collect feedback and think outside of the box to refine strategies and focus areas to further elevate organizational and individual marketing capabilities  

 

Requirements 

Experiences： 

 


* 5 years or more of pharmaceutical business experience at a Pharma company, Biotech company, or Pharma product launch consulting experience at a Consulting Company  



* Successful track record in Marketing and Launch of new products  

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