Senior Manager, Scientific Engagement

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Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured,where treatments are smarter and less invasive, andsolutions 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 jnj.com

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Job Function:
Strategy & Corporate Development

Job Sub Function:
Strategic Partnerships & Alliances

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
South San Francisco, California, United States of America

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

We are searching for the best talent for our Senior Manager, Scientific Engagement position, to be based in South San Francisco, CA.

Purpose:

The Senior Manager, Scientific Engagement will lead regional scientific sourcing and engagement in South San Francisco, performing first‑pass scientific triage and designing targeted outreach programs that generate high‑quality external opportunities for therapeutic‑area, DPDS, and partnering teams.

This senior individual contributor translates priorities into scalable regional strategies that improve identification, triage, and progression of high‑potential external opportunities.

Unlike an event- or marketing-led engagement role, this position serves as a scientifically credible front door to the external ecosystem.

The Senior Manager independently assesses inbound and proactively sourced opportunities, distinguishes strategically relevant science from lower-priority opportunities, identifies critical data gaps and diligence questions, and directs the strongest opportunities to the appropriate therapeutic-area, DPDS, Search & Evaluation, incubation, or partnering stakeholders.

The role also designs and leads high-impact scientific programs and engagements that generate actionable opportunity flow, market intelligence, and strategic relationships.

The Senior Manager operates across multiple therapeutic areas and functions, manages complex and ambiguous work with limited oversight, influences senior internal and external stake...