Business Development Director

**Job Function**:
Strategy & Corporate Development
**Job Sub Function**:
Business Development
**Job Category**:
Professional
**All Job Posting Locations**:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Johnson & Johnson is looking to hire a Business Development Director, NRG, based in Toronto, Ontario. This role will report to the Business Unit Director, Neuroscience, Rare Disease & General Medicine (NRG).

**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.

**About Neuroscience**

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.

Our Neuroscience team tackles the world’s toughest brain health challenges including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, myasthenia gravis, epilepsy, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and autism. This patient-focused team helps address some of the most complex diseases of our time.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

**About the Role**

The Business Development Director will be accountable for leading the launch readiness for pipeline products within existing and emerging therapeutic areas, as well as leading or participating in the assessment and valuation of global and/or regional new business opportunities. This unique role will also serve as a key partner to our Therapeutic area forums that will help shape and define long term strategies that impact the portfolio and will be a key leader that holds credibility with the Sales &Marketing organization to champion a culture of compliance and ensuring adherence to policies and practices.

**Key Responsibilities**:
New Asset Development
- Lead teams in the development of robust, data driven, and launch-readiness plans for a variety of products and therapeutic areas, in alignment with global and local commercial team priorities. Plans encompass all aspects of the Value Excellence Framework including but not limited to regulatory, pricing, access, medical strategy and brand strategy
- Provide input to the company’s long-range plans by owning the assessment of valuation, risks and opportunities associated with the current and future product pipeline
- Participate actively on global launch readiness teams including to the development of launch strategies and being a pro-active voice for Canada to ensure Canadian market dynamics are considered
- Partner with in-line Sales and Marketing partners to ensure smooth transition of launch readiness plans to the brands
- Lead and/or support identified global and/or regional opportunities by leading local cross-functional assessments to ensure relevant input to the valuation of business development opportunities.

Strategic Project Lead at the Therapeutic Area (TA) Forum
- Shape, lead, and execute strategic cross-functional projects ensuring new processes, capabilities, and technology solutions are fully optimized to deliver long term strategies:

- Manage portfolio of strategic initiatives by:

- Maintaining the portfolio, including regular review with senior leaders
- Ensure cross-functional alignment to maximize the value of the initiative
- Facilitate prioritization to ensure resources are deployed to the highest-value work

TA Forum Trusted Advisor
- Serve as a trusted advisor leveraging data, a deep understanding of the external environment and internal capabilities to challenge the status quo and guide TA Forum decision making.
- Assist the TA Forum in communicating business unit strategy, challenges and opportunities into clear, succinct messages that can be communicated to the enterprise.
- Create outcomes-focused engaging TA Forum meetings where ideas are debated inclusively and respectively.

Therapeutic Area Compliance Liaison
- As a compliance liaison and champion, this role promotes and supports business practices and activities that are in compliance with related J&J internal guidelines, local laws and regulations and anticorruption laws including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
- This role will serve as a trusted partner fostering safe space conversations across the business, assures that the company culture of accountability and compliance is an engrained and natural element in day-to-day business and creates awareness of compliance principles from a business/field perspective and ensures clarity on the rationale.
- This role will work with the HCC team to implement activities to support the compliance program, including but not exclusive to