Senior Manager Data Products - Therapeutic Area (TA)

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Job Function:
Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:
Data Science

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, La Jolla, California, United States of America, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

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Role Summary

The Senior Manager Data Products - Therapeutic Area (TA) is responsible for shaping and delivering high-value, user-centric data products that enable advanced analytics, data science, and AI/ML capabilities across the Therapeutic Area.

This role focuses on translating TA scientific and data science needs into scalable, reusable, and AI-ready data products, spanning preclinical, translational, clinical, competitive intelligence, and real-world data (RWD/RWE).

Working in close partnership with TA Data Science teams, scientific leaders, and the broader Data Strategy & Products organization, this leader ensures that data products are fit-for-purpose, semantically consistent, interoperable, and aligned with enterprise standards, accelerating discovery, evidence generation, and regulatory readiness.

Key Responsibilities

Data Product Delivery & Roadmap Execution

• Own the delivery of TA-facing data products, translating scientific and analytics use cases into clear functional and technical requirements.
• Contribute to and execute a TA data product roadmap aligned with enterprise data strategy, spanning discovery, translational research, clinical development, and real-world evidence.
• Lead or support agile product delivery, ensuring adherence to FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
• Drive integration and harmonization of internal and external data sources, including clinical trial data, omics, imaging, competitor intelligence, registries, and RWE datasets.

Ontology, Metadata & Semantic Enablement

• Contribute to the development, curation, and application of TA ontologies to ensure semantic consistency across discovery, clinical, regulatory, and real-world data.
• Align TA semantic models and metadata with enterprise standards and external frameworks (e.g., CDISC, GA4GH, FHIR, NCI Thesaurus).
• Partner with ontology, metadata, and governance teams to ensure data products are AI-ready and semantically enriched.

Cross -Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with TA Data Science, clinical, translational, and scientific stakeholders to co-design data products that maximize scientific and analytics value.
• Collaborate with Data Product Architecture & Governance, Knowledge Management, and Master Data Management teams to ensure seamless integration into enterprise knowledge graphs, catalogs, and platforms.
• Interface with IT, compliance, and regulatory partners to ensure data products meet quality, privacy, and global regulatory expectations.

Team Leadership & Operating Model Support

• Provide day-to-day leadership and technical direction to product owners, data engineers, and TA data domain experts.
• Support the implementation of governance models, agile practices, and delivery standards for TA data products.
• Act as a coach and mentor, strengthening product, semantic, and data literacy capabilities within the team.

Value Realization & Stakeholder Communication

• Define and monitor product-level KPIs to assess impact on scientific insights, analytics velocity, trial efficiency, and regulatory outcomes.
• Communicate progress, outcomes, and value realization to TA leadership, Data Science teams, and broader stakeholders.
• Actively champion adoption, reuse, and data literacy within the TA community.

Strategic Impact

• The Senior Manager Data Products - TA plays a critical execution and shaping role in transforming TA data assets into trusted, reusable, AI-ready data products.
• By embedding semantic rigor, enterprise alignment, and strong partnership with Data Science and scientific teams, this role directly accelerates discovery, improves trial design and execution, and strengthens evidence generation and regulatory readiness positioning TA data as a strategic enabler of patient impact and scientific innovation.

Qualifications

Education

• PhD or Master's degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Data Science, Life Sciences, or a related discipline.

Experience & Skills

• 6-10+ years of experience in pharma/biotech R&D with a focus on data products, data engineering, analytics platforms, or data science.
• Demonstrated experience delivering domain-specific data products within a Therapeutic Area or scientific domain.
• Hands-on experience with multi-modal data, including omics, imaging, translational, clinical trial data, and/or RWD/RWE.
• Strong understanding of data product design, data modeling, data integration, and data transformation.
• Familiarity with research, clinical development, and regulatory data requirements.
• Working knowledge of metadata management, ontologies, semantic models, and knowledge graphs.
• Experience aligning with industry and enterprise data standards (e.g., CDISC, GA4GH, FHIR).
• Strong collaboration, communication, and influence skills, with the ability to bridge scientific, technical, and business perspectives.
• Proven ability to drive adoption and change in a complex, matrixed organization.

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.


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Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:
Advanced Analytics, Consulting, Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Data Privacy Standards, Data Quality, Data Reporting, Data Savvy, Data Science, Data Visualization, Digital Fluency, Econometric Models, Mentorship, Strategic Thinking, Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$137,000.00 - $235,750.00

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)).

This position is eligible to participate in the Company's long-term incentive program.

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

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