Associate Director, Evidence Generation Centre

**Job Function**:
Medical Affairs Group
**Job Sub Function**:
Medical Affairs - Marketed Products
**Job Category**:
People Leader
**All Job Posting Locations**:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

**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.

**We are searching for the best talent for an Associate Director, Evidence Generation Centre to be in Toronto, Canada.**

**Purpose**:
The Associate Director, Evidence Generation is responsible for shaping Canada's enterprise-wide Evidence Generation strategy. This role will involve working collaboratively with internal and external customers and the global team to develop robust evidence-generation strategic operations and tactics. This will include developing and evolving processes to drive the utilization of real-world evidence and data and shape integrated evidence generation planning (IEGP) activities across the organization. Building internal capabilities to implement EG activities effectively and using global clinical operations functions to accelerate IEGP activities will be under the remit of this Associate Director. This role is responsible for developing the strategic approach for strategic alliances related to RWE and partnering internally with the therapeutic areas to prioritize and mobilize tactical execution.

**You will be responsible for**:

- Shape and give input to developing enterprise-wide Evidence Generation strategy, including the strategic approach for external alliances and methods in EG.
- Accountable for working collaboratively with internal and external customers to develop robust evidence-generation operations, including reshaping and creating innovative frameworks, processes, tools and procedures to enable and accelerate Evidence Generation and Dissemination.
- Work with integrated evidence dissemination planning (IEDP) teams to ensure alignment of RWE tactics and publication plans with the strategic evidence dissemination plan.
- Led and evolved IEGP to ensure the development of robust evidence generation strategies and tactics. Represent EGC in WW MAS/IEGP council, Worldwide evidence strategy solution (WESS), Canadian BP/IEGP, and content strategy working streams.
- Work with key internal customers within marketed and pipeline cross-functional teams to plan, set up, and oversee evidence-generation programs across the entire pipeline and lifecycle indications of a product or asset.
- Communicate effectively about the utility of EG/ RWE across the program lifecycle and promote the use of study/analysis results to support internal and external decision-making.
- Seek external insights on RWE trends and initiatives in epidemiology, methodology and use of innovative methods for EG solutions.
- Measure quality improvement in EG activities at Janssen relative to global and industry standards and report back to the Senior Leadership team.
- Identify further opportunities to support EG operations across the company and develop and implement flexible resource models where relevant (i.e., depending on asset life cycle)
- Provide Functional leadership of the Operations Team and Line Management for the RWE Operation Managers to deliver programmatic expertise, including building capabilities and resources and developing knowledge and skills.
- Provide technical and operational expertise in classification and governance and elevate organizational literacy.

**Qualifications / Requirements**:
**Education**:

- A minimum of a university degree in science or health-related field
- Post-graduate scientific degree or medical degree (M.D.) is preferred

**Required**:

- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry (medical advisor, regulatory affairs, clinical trials, etc.) or a healthcare environment (hospital clinical studies, CRO, etc.)
- Minimum 2 years experience in Senior Operations or Programmatic management
- Experience in market access, epidemiology, statistics, or clinical trials
- Experience in the design, classification and execution of observational research studies is preferred.
- Outstanding collaboration skills, including the ability to build strong relationships with Cross-functional teams within Medical Sciences,
- Compelling presentation skills to articulate the value of strategic operations, IEGP process innovations, reports and metrics to various management levels across the organization.
- Ability to form strong networks across the global J&J organization, including partners in Medical Affairs Operations (Global Operations
- Manage and establish links with external stakeholders and organizations, including KOLs, Principal Investigators, Industry
- Artificial Intelligence, data science), Reg