Associate Director, Patient Experience Excellence Marketing and Branding Strategy

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:

Multi-Family Marketing

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for an Associate Director, Patient Experience Excellence Marketing and Branding Strategy to be located in Titusville, NJ.

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

Job Description:
An important aspect of patient unmet need includes helping them start and stay on their medicine for the best chance at treatment success.  The Patient Engagement and Customer Solutions (PECS) organization serves patients during their treatment journey with Johnson & Johnson therapies to help overcome challenges to fulfillment, on-boarding, and adherence.

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine’s PECS team is recruiting for an Associate Director, PECS Marketing & Branding Strategy, to be based in Titusville, NJ with flexibility to work in Horsham, PA.
 

Summary:
The Associate Director, PECS Marketing & Branding Strategy will responsible for shaping the strategy and implementation, adherence, and adoption of compliant J&J withMe messaging in market across all Therapeutic Area (TA) patient support programs (PSP).  The Associate Director support the development and maintenance of content strategy and message libraries for each TA to leverage best practices and drive consistency and clarity of core program messaging and representation.​ 

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with PECS Patient Experience, Solutions, and Operations teams to support all NA Innovative Medicine TAs.

• Branding Strategy Development: Align with Px and Brand Teams to the creation and execution of comprehensive J&J withMe branding strategies for PECS, aimed at enhancing brand awareness and engagement. Ensure consistent application across the PECS portfolio of TA PSPs and adherence to enterprise J&J withMe branding guidelines. Evaluate competitor patient experience and access offerings and anticipate future trends.
• Cross Functional Collaboration: Maintain strong connectivity with Internal Stakeholders (Patient Experience, Solutions, Operations, Market Access, and Brand) to understand evolving business and program needs. Develop and deliver training to help Internal Stakeholders understand messaging and asset submission requirements. Ensure excellence in patient experience when adding or updating program materials.
• PECS CAC Processes: Participate in CAC reviews to ensure compliant, accurate, and timely approvals of patient support program materials. Serve as the PECS subject matter expert in CAC, ensuring PECS‑approved content is consistently and accurately pulled through. Act as liaison between PECS teams and CAC reviewers to align on concepts and messaging. Ensure program offerings appropriately balance J&J and customer needs in a compliant manner.
• Operational Excellence: Drive harmonization of J&J patient support program materials where appropriate. Provide a J&J‑wide perspective to ensure consistency in patient support program processes across therapeutic areas. Ensure current, approved materials are live across all digital platforms (JNJwithMe.com, J&J with Me Portals, brand.com sites). Maintain patient journey and support program maps across brands.
• J&J withMe Message Libraries: Develop and maintain HCP and patient‑facing message libraries that guide all content for J&J withMe. Simplify language to reflect customer needs—supporting patients with empathy and giving providers easy‑to‑use resources.
• Performance Metrics: Define advance CAC performance indicators to identify friction points and drive continuous improvement and engagement strategies within CAC/CET processes to increased organizational efficiency, and enhance launch effectiveness for all materials and resources.
• Unbranded Programs & Materials: Lead development and improvement of patient educational materials. Manage agency partners to create/maintain cross‑franchise educational resources. Serve as Project Owner for cross‑franchise CAC submissions as needed.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree is required. Postgraduate qualification, MBA, or other graduate degree or equivalent experience is strongly preferred.
• A minimum of 5 years of dynamic experience in the pharmaceutical industry is required.
• A minimum of 5 years demonstrated in pre-launch & launch activities, in-line marketing, market access, marketing support, or sales management/training experience implementing marketing strategy is required.
• An ability to manage multiple priorities is required.
• Excellent leadership skills with the ability to work effectively in a matrix and unstructured environment and manage project teams with or without direct report authority is required
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to present to all levels of leadership required
• Commitment to creating an inclusive environment and fostering best thinking across the team is required
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a demonstrated track record for forging strong, productive relationships with a wide array of colleagues and customers is required

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $122,000 to $224,000. The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis.

• Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
• Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
• Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
  • Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year
  • Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – up to 56 hours per calendar year
  • Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year of Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Additional information can be found through the link below. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation,  external applicants please contact us via  https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers and internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Brand Positioning Strategy, Collaborative Selling, Commercial Awareness, Content Marketing, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer Intelligence, Data Analysis, Developing Others, Digital Marketing Platforms, Execution Focus, Financial Analysis, Go-to-Market Strategies, Inclusive Leadership, Innovation, Leadership, Operations Management, Performance Measurement, Sales Promotions, Succession Planning, Tactical Planning

 

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$122,000.00 - $212,750.00

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