Director, Regulatory Data Office Leader

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 jnj.com.

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Job Function:

Regulatory Affairs Group

Job Sub Function:

Regulatory Product Submissions and Registration

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

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

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):

• United States - Requisition Number: R-098239

• United Kingdom - Requisition Number: R-100188

• Belgium, Netherlands - Requisition Number: R-100190

• Switzerland - Requisition Number: R-100196

Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine R&D is recruiting for a Director, Regulatory Data Office Leader.  This position is a hybrid role and will be located in High Wycombe, United Kingdom.

Global Regulatory Affairs (GRA) is seeking an experienced leader with deep regulatory domain expertise and a strong track record in data stewardship and governance. The Director, Regulatory Data Office Leader, will lead a global team of data stewards and oversee the Regulatory Data Hub (RDH), ensuring trusted, high-quality regulatory data enables business intelligence, analytics, and informed decision-making as we build a world-class regulatory operations organization.

As the business owner of GRA data governance capabilities, including the Regulatory Data Council, Regulatory Data Hub, data stewardship program, and regulatory data standards, the Director will strengthen the quality, integrity, accessibility, and responsible use of GRA data.  This highly collaborative and technically fluent leader will partner across R&D, Johnson & Johnson Technology (IT), Data, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DDSAI), and the enterprise to establish governance policies and standards and to embed trusted data into major transformation efforts.  This will include end-to-end Regulatory Information Management (RIM) through the Unified Regulatory Platform (URP), R&D Digital Solutions Initiative (i.e. MDM), eLabeling and submission-excellence AI tooling.  Regulatory Knowledge and Process Excellence (RKPE) operates through three integrated pillars - the Data Office, the Process Office, and Decision Enablement. As leader of the Data Office, the Director will be accountable not only for the performance of their own pillar but for actively creating synergy across all three, ensuring that trusted data, well-designed process, and decision enablement operates as one connected capability rather than three separate functions.

Principal Responsibilities:

Data Governance and Stewardship

• Serve as the advocate for regulatory data integrity, ensuring business relevance, quality, trustworthiness, and responsible stewardship of GRA data.

• Promote shared responsibility and clear accountability for regulatory data ownership, stewardship, quality, access, and decision rights, enabling enterprise-wide insights, analytics, and decision-making.

• Establish and maintain data governance policy, standards, definitions, and business rules for regulatory data across systems, in close alignment with R&D, Pharma, and cross-sector initiatives.

• Oversee regulatory data ownership and stewardship, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance with global health authority requirements (e.g., IDMP, xEVMPD, SPOR).

• Enable Data Stewards and Domain Owners to establish and monitor regulatory data quality metrics, lead root-cause analysis, prioritize remediation, and measure sustained improvement across regulatory data domains.

Data Council and Framework Leadership

• Operate and chair the cross-functional Regulatory Data Council, governing access to and ingestion of regulatory data and harmonizing with enterprise data governance frameworks.

• Reconcile central, regional, and local GRA business needs while ensuring overall efficiency and quality.

Regulatory Data Hub - Business Ownership

• Provide day-to-day business functional ownership of the Regulatory Data Hub (RDH), turning fragmented regulatory data into trusted, curated regulatory data for decision making.

• Provide governance and stewardship through the Regulatory Data Council to align GRA data domains with data products. Collaborate with JJT (IT) and DDSAI to enable consistent management and effective use of regulatory data across a range of business use cases.

• Provide strategic input to current and future tools and processes used to collect, share, submit, and track regulatory data, ensuring related business support and services are provided to the GRA community.

• Anticipate business needs and evolve data and technology capabilities ahead of industry trends.

Transformation Enablement

• Provide strategic leadership to engage and support end-to-end RIM transformation through the Unified Regulatory Platform (URP), ensuring data governance, quality, and stewardship requirements are embedded from design through adoption.

• Partner on submission-excellence and next-generation submission efforts, supporting the responsible adoption of AI, automation, and simulation capabilities with trusted, well-governed data as the foundation.

• GRA leader and enabler of success across programs representing a broader transformation landscape that will require thoughtful strategy, silo elimination, and alignment across R&D and the enterprise (e.g. eLabeling, MDM/DSI).

• Stay attuned to the impact of global initiatives and direct regulatory contributions to the implementation strategy for globally developed regulatory authority programs.

Leadership and People Management

• Lead and develop a global team of data stewards and experts through direct and indirect reporting relationships. establish clear data domain accountabilities and priorities, create individual and team capability development plans, and set measurable performance expectations aligned with business needs.

• Provide customer-focused leadership that empowers, promotes, and motivates high-performing teams, drives innovation, and fosters collaboration and diversity to deliver results.

• Contribute expertise to internal and external initiatives that influence evolving policy and requirements impacting regulatory data capabilities.

• Partner deliberately with the Process Office and Decision Enablement leads to connect data standards to process design and to translate governed data into decision-ready insight, jointly setting shared priorities, resolving interdependencies, and presenting an integrated RKPE agenda to stakeholders.

Qualifications:

Education:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Business, Computer Science/Technology, Regulatory Affairs, or equivalent is required.  Advanced degree Master’s, Ph.D., PharmD) preferred.

Required:

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in a medium-to-large-scale Pharmaceutical, Medtech or related healthcare environment.

• Experience with a foundation of Regulatory Affairs knowledge.

• A minimum of 2 years of people management experience.

• Demonstrated experience serving as a data steward, lead data steward, data-domain governance lead, or equivalent business owner accountable for data standards, quality, metadata, ownership, and issue resolution in a regulated environment.

• Strong data analysis skills with the ability to translate data into information, and strategies into actionable plans.

• Strong understanding of the business aspects of data standards, data architecture/tools, and related governance.

• Knowledge of quality management and/or compliance principles within the drug development process.

• Experience leading projects and project teams.

• The ability to influence without authority and drive alignment in a global, matrix environment.

• The ability to build trust with cross-functional stakeholders.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong networking, relationship-building, conflict-resolution, and negotiation skills.

Preferred:

• Hands-on knowledge of regulatory systems and standards (e.g., Veeva Vault RIM, IDMP, SPOR, xEVMPD) and structured content.

• Experience leading a team of data stewards, or leading data governance in a regulated environment.

• Understanding of how regulatory processes interconnect with R&D, clinical, safety, and supply chain.

• Experience supporting digital transformation, agile/rapid value-realization concepts, and AI-enabled tooling.

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Preferred Skills:

Compliance Management, Design Thinking, Developing Others, Inclusive Leadership, Industry Analysis, Leadership, New Program Development, Operations Management, Package and Labeling Regulations, Product Packaging Design, Regulatory Affairs Management, Regulatory Compliance, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Strategic Thinking, Sustainability, Sustainable Packaging, Transparency Reporting