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Job Function:
Legal & Compliance
Job Sub Function:
Health Care Compliance
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description:
We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Manager, Global HCC IM R&D Compliance Performance Center to be based in Titusville, NJ; New Brunswick, NJ; Raritan, NJ; or Spring House, PA.
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Purpose: The Senior Manager, Global HCC IM R&D Compliance Performance Center (CPC) is a strategic and operational leadership role responsible for translating enterprise and HCC strategy into disciplined execution across the global Innovative Medicine R&D organization. The role leads the IM R&D CPC agenda, connects global and regional stakeholders, strengthens risk intelligence and governance, and enables timely, consistent, and insight-driven compliance support.
Serving as a trusted strategic partner to the HCC Global Lead, IM R&D & Innovation, this individual will help orchestrate leadership priorities, operating rhythms, executive reporting, and cross-functional follow-through. The role will also perform HCC Officer responsibilities for selected North America IM R&D areas, based on evolving business need. The successful candidate will combine enterprise perspective, sound compliance judgment, operational excellence, analytical capability, and strong stakeholder leadership.
You will be responsible for:
Global CPC Leadership and Strategy Execution
- Lead the global IM R&D CPC operating model, establishing clear priorities, governance, accountabilities, and execution plans aligned with enterprise, sector, HCC leadership, and R&D strategic direction.
- Translate strategic priorities into coordinated plans, milestones, and deliverables across global and regional HCC teams, including partnership with CPC and regional champions in North America, Latin America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.
- Act as the central IM R&D HCC point of contact for enterprise strategy execution and cross-CPC coordination, ensuring clarity, consistency, and timely follow-through.
- Partner closely with the HCC Global Lead to prepare and manage leadership operating rhythms, including leadership team meetings, broader team meetings, town halls, business reviews, risk reviews, and other strategic forums.
- Develop executive-ready agendas, briefing materials, decision documents, dashboards, and communications that elevate insights, clarify trade-offs, and support effective leadership decisions.
- Drive disciplined follow-up on decisions, commitments, dependencies, and actions, proactively identifying barriers and escalating material risks or decisions when appropriate.
- Promote simplification, standardization, and continuous improvement across IM R&D HCC processes, tools, and ways of working.
Risk Intelligence, Assessment, and Performance Management
- Lead the global IM R&D risk assessment and performance management process, including data integrity, key performance indicators, mitigation tracking, and preparation for quarterly and biannual risk reviews.
- Coordinate timely, accurate, and complete inputs across risk-management systems and reporting processes, and ensure appropriate governance of risk records, mitigation plans, and supporting documentation.
- Integrate monitoring, assessment, and performance data to identify patterns, emerging risks, execution gaps, and opportunities for risk-based action.
- Prepare consolidated analyses and executive-level narratives for HCC and business leadership, connecting compliance insights to business context and strategic priorities.
- Partner with Compliance Officers, subject-matter experts, Legal, Internal Audit, Privacy, Finance, Procurement, and other relevant functions to support appropriate evaluation, escalation, mitigation, and closure of identified matters.
- Maintain strong documentation, quality, governance, and audit-readiness across CPC-owned processes.
North America HCC Officer Responsibilities
- Provide HCC Officer support for designated North America IM R&D organizations or activities, based on business need and in coordination with the broader North America HCC support model.
- Serve as a proactive, solutions-oriented compliance partner to assigned business stakeholders, enabling responsible innovation and informed risk-taking while maintaining alignment with applicable policies, standards, and regulatory expectations.
- Advise on business initiatives, healthcare professional and healthcare organization interactions, scientific and external engagement, third-party activity, and other relevant IM R&D matters within the assigned scope.
- Lead or coordinate North America execution of applicable enterprise or sector compliance plans, risk assessments, monitoring, mitigation actions, and management reporting.
- Oversee and support compliance monitoring activities relevant to the assigned portfolio, including review of outputs, documentation of findings or deviations, trend identification, escalation, and follow-up on corrective actions.
- Support third-party due diligence, risk review, and approval processes for relevant R&D, external innovation, and business-development activities, as assigned.
- Build trusted relationships with business leaders and functional partners, communicating requirements and risk considerations clearly, pragmatically, and constructively.
Leadership, Culture, and Capability Building
- Lead through influence across a global, matrixed organization and create alignment among stakeholders with different priorities, geographies, and areas of expertise.
- Foster a culture of ethics, accountability, inclusion, collaboration, smart risk-taking, and continuous improvement.
- Coach and develop colleagues contributing to CPC priorities, including project teams and regional champions, and strengthen shared capability in risk assessment, monitoring, data quality, and executive communication.
- Represent IM R&D HCC in relevant global and regional forums and build strong networks across HCC, IM R&D, OCMO, external innovation, and enabling functions.
- Handle sensitive information with discretion and demonstrate sound judgment, courage, and integrity in complex situations.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in business, law, finance, life sciences, healthcare, data analytics, risk management, or a related discipline.
- Significant relevant experience in healthcare compliance, ethics and compliance, legal, audit, risk management, monitoring, quality, operations, or a related field, with demonstrated readiness to operate at Senior Manager level.
- Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in a global or highly matrixed environment.
- Strong understanding of risk assessment, monitoring, issue management, mitigation planning, governance, and compliance performance reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex information into clear executive insights, recommendations, and decision materials.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including confidence engaging senior leaders and facilitating high-stakes discussions.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and project leadership skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes with appropriate urgency.
- Fluency in English.
- Advanced degree or relevant professional certification in compliance, law, audit, risk, finance, data analytics, healthcare, or a related discipline preferred.
- Experience supporting pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology, clinical development, medical affairs, R&D, or external innovation organizations preferred.
- Experience serving as a Compliance Officer or as a direct compliance partner to business leadership preferred.
- Experience with compliance monitoring, analytics, reporting platforms, third-party risk processes, and enterprise risk-management systems preferred.
- Experience working across countries and cultures and coordinating global and regional execution preferred.
- The role may require domestic and international travel and collaboration across time zones. Location and work arrangement will be defined in accordance with the requirements of the posting and applicable company policies.
Leadership Capabilities
- Enterprise mindset: Connects strategy, risk, and execution across functions and geographies.
- Trusted partnership: Builds credibility and enables the business through practical, principled guidance.
- Strategic execution: Converts ambiguity into clear priorities, governance, actions, and measurable outcomes.
- Influence and communication: Engages effectively at all levels and communicates complex topics with clarity and judgment.
- Analytical rigor: Uses data and insight to anticipate risk, challenge assumptions, and improve decisions.
- Agility and ownership: Acts with pace, manages competing priorities, and follows through on commitments.
- People and culture leadership: Creates inclusion, develops others, and reinforces ethical leadership and accountability.
Role Impact
- This role is central to the effectiveness of the global IM R&D HCC organization. It strengthens the connection between strategy and execution, improves visibility of risk and performance, enables consistent global and regional delivery, and provides direct compliance partnership where needed in North America. Success will be reflected in the quality of insights, the reliability of execution, the strength of stakeholder partnerships, and the organization’s ability to make timely, well-informed, and compliant decisions.
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, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Audit Management, Compliance Frameworks, Compliance Management, Confidentiality, Consulting, Corporate Governance, Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA), Healthcare Industry, Health Care Regulation, Interpersonal Influence, Legal Services, Medical Compliance, Organizing, Process Improvements, Program Management, Technical Credibility
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$122,000.00 - $212,750.00
Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits