Immunology Learning Portfolio Lead

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Job Function

Human Resources

Job Sub Function

Learning & Instructional Design

Job Category

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description

We are searching for the best talent for an Immunology Learning Portfolio Lead to be located in Horsham, PA.

About Immunology

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 Immunology team leads in the development of transformational medicines for immunological disorders and illnesses. You can influence where medicine is going by restoring health to millions of people living with immune diseases.

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

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Job Description

The Immunology Learning Portfolio Lead is a people leader who owns the strategic direction, coherence, health, and performance of the Immunology learning portfolio. This role ensures learning investments, curricula, and solutions remain aligned to business priorities, learner needs, portfolio standards, and organizational outcomes. Working closely with business leaders, subject matter experts, Learning Architects, project managers, vendor partners, and Learning Excellence Organization (LEO) peers, the Portfolio Lead translates category strategy into portfolio priorities, manages portfolio risk and performance, and drives decisions regarding learning investment, enhancement, optimization, retirement, and resource allocation. The role brings strong Immunology business and scientific acumen, learning judgment, enterprise perspective, and people leadership capability to ensure the portfolio remains relevant, differentiated, purposeful, and positioned to build field medical capability while supporting appropriate commercial field clinical content priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the Immunology learning portfolio strategy and roadmap, ensuring that portfolio priorities, investments, and lifecycle decisions align with category direction, business needs, learner needs, and enterprise learning standards
• Monitor portfolio performance, learner feedback, field insights, readiness indicators, and business inputs to identify gaps, redundancies, underperforming assets, and opportunities to improve learning effectiveness and business relevance
• Provide strategic oversight for Immunology curricula, learner journeys, onboarding pathways, field readiness milestones, and capability-building experiences so the portfolio remains coherent, current, and easy to navigate
• Apply Immunology business, clinical, and scientific expertise to interpret evolving business developments and translate them into portfolio implications, learning priorities, and clear direction for content and curriculum work
• Represent the Immunology learning portfolio in business planning, governance discussions, launch readiness forums, and cross-functional working sessions; influence stakeholders through clear recommendations, sound judgment, and enterprise-minded decision making
• Collaborate with business partnerships, LEO and vendor partners, and business stakeholders to align portfolio priorities with available resources, timelines, budget considerations, and capacity constraints
• Provide portfolio leadership for time-sensitive business requests, urgent updates, launch support, and cross-portfolio priorities across JJIM clinical portfolios, ensuring appropriate prioritization and coordinated execution
• Lead, coach, and develop direct reports by setting clear expectations, clarifying priorities, removing barriers, creating focus, and enabling team members to contribute effectively to portfolio outcomes
• Provide timely feedback, coaching, and development support that strengthens individual capability, builds learning and portfolio management skills, and supports career growth and performance expectations
• Establish team ways of working, role clarity, operating rhythms, and workload practices that help the team manage competing priorities, sustain quality, and deliver against portfolio commitments
• Model inclusive, collaborative, and enterprise-minded leadership that promotes trust, knowledge sharing, accountability, continuous improvement, and team effectiveness

Core Competencies, Skills, & Qualifications

• Portfolio Management & Execution: Owns the direction, coherence, health, and lifecycle management of the learning portfolio; identifies risks, dependencies, gaps, overlaps, and opportunities for optimization.
• Strategic Prioritization: Makes informed tradeoff decisions regarding learning demand, investment, sequencing, resource allocation, and retirement based on business value, learner impact, compliance considerations, and capacity.
• Strategy Translation: Converts clinical portfolio direction, business priorities, scientific developments, and stakeholder input into actionable portfolio decisions, curriculum priorities, and learning roadmap recommendations.
• Business & Domain Acumen: Applies strong Immunology, field medical, commercial field, and pharmaceutical business understanding to portfolio planning, decision making, and stakeholder consultation.
• Curriculum & Pathway Management: Maintains strategic oversight of curricula, learning pathways, onboarding journeys, field readiness milestones, and role-based capability progression.
• Portfolio Performance & Learning Measurement: Uses learner feedback, usage data, portfolio insights, readiness indicators, and business inputs to evaluate learning portfolio effectiveness and recommend improvements.
• Resource & Capacity Management: Balances business demand against available resources, timelines, vendor support, project capacity, and implementation constraints; escalates risks and tradeoffs appropriately.
• Relationship Management: Builds trusted partnerships with business leaders, SMEs, Learning Architects, project managers, vendor partners, and cross-functional collaborators.
• Communication & Influence: Communicates portfolio priorities, recommendations, risks, and decision rationale clearly; influences without authority and drives alignment in a matrix environment.
• Collaboration & Teaming: Works effectively across portfolios and partner teams to reduce friction, share knowledge, create consistency, and promote operational continuity.
• Growth Mindset & Change Leadership: Demonstrates curiosity, adaptability, critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving orientation, and continuous improvement discipline in response to evolving business needs.
• People Leadership & Coaching: Sets clear direction, coaches team members, provides actionable feedback, creates accountability, and supports individual growth while maintaining alignment to portfolio priorities. Develops direct reports by identifying strengths, growth opportunities, skill needs, and development experiences that build future-ready learning, portfolio, and stakeholder leadership capability.
• Team Effectiveness & Culture Building: Creates an inclusive, collaborative, high-accountability team environment where people understand priorities, share knowledge, raise risks early, and work together to deliver quality outcomes.

Professional Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Education, Learning & Development, Business, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred, including PharmD, PhD, MD, MS, MA, MBA, or related advanced scientific, clinical, business, or education degree.
• Experience: Minimum of 7–10 years of relevant professional experience in learning, field medical, commercial field teams, or related pharmaceutical/biotech experience; people leadership experience preferred.
• * Preferred experience within Immunology (Rheum/Derm/GI/AutoAb)**

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

Coaching, Cultural Competence, Developing Others, Facilitation, HR Strategic Management, Inclusive Leadership, Innovation, Instructional Design, Instructional Development, Leadership, Learning and Development (L&D), Learning Content Design, Learning Culture, Strategic Thinking, Talent Management, Team Management, Training Delivery Methods, Training Needs Analysis (TNA)