Associate Director of Process Design & Optimization

Associate Director of Process Design & Optimization

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for an Associate Director of Process Design & Optimization located in Pittsburgh, PA; Raleigh, NC; Orlando, FL; Phoenix, AZ; Horsham PA or Titusville NJ.

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.

Purpose:

The Associate Director, Process Design & Optimization will lead the strategic evolution of end-to-end patient support service models, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives and long-term growth priorities. This role is accountable for shaping and delivering components of the strategic roadmap through cross-functional leadership, driving scalable process design, and optimizing operational performance across HUB and pharmacy ecosystems.

This leader will operate with a high degree of autonomy, translating business strategy into sustainable operating models and process standards that improve patient and agent experience while delivering measurable business outcomes. The role will partner with cross-functional partners to ensure workflows and technologies are optimized; and HUB and pharmacy operations are running synergistically.

The Associate Director will partner closely with the Immunology and Oncology Contact Center Innovation & Implementation teams to drive the successful pull through strategic initiatives aimed at establishing an AI-powered contact center, managed by exceptional talent, delivering a personalized, quick, seamless, and consistent patient experience.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and execution of strategic process design initiatives aligned to organizational priorities and transformation goals
• Own the discovery, mapping and ongoing maintenance of the current-state patient and agent journeys
• Define and evolve future-state operating models that support scalability, efficiency, and differentiated patient experience across programs.
• Standardize key workflows, decision trees, and handoffs to improve right-first-time execution and reduce rework/defects.
• Oversee the delivery of key components of the strategic plan, ensuring initiatives are executed effectively through cross-functional teams and/or external partners.
• Provide directional leadership, enabling project teams to deliver on defined objectives.
• Gain a deep understanding of HUB and pharmacy systems and their integrations, ensure proper flow or referrals between systems, and liaise with technology teams on ways to optimize.
• Lead and influence matrixed teams, ensuring alignment with priorities and delivery expectations.
• Ensure processes and operating models adhere to regulatory, compliance, and quality standards, including patient privacy and documentation requirements.
• Coach teams on structured problem solving, process thinking, and change adoption.
• Serve as submission owner through demand intake process.
• Up to 25% travel.
• Other duties assigned based on staffing, coverage, and program implementation needs.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• A minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in process design, process improvement, operations excellence, customer experience, and/or contact center/patient services operations
• Deep knowledge of patient support programs, HUB operational workflows and patient access and affordability solutions (such as reimbursement services, free drug program and pharmacy services)
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems, design and successfully deploy workflow enhancements
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to synthesize complex work into executive-ready updates

Preferred Qualifications:

• Lean / Six Sigma (Green Belt or Black Belt), Design Thinking, Human-Centered Design, or comparable process excellence certification.
• Experience with journey mapping, service blueprinting, and agent workflow design in Visio.
• Familiarity with healthcare/patient services compliance concepts (privacy, documentation standards, quality management practices).

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, external applicants please contact us via careers and internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Advanced Analytics, Customer Centricity, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customer Retentions, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Support Operations, Customer Support Platforms, Customer Support Policies and Procedures, Customer Support Trends, Developing Others, Emotional Intelligence, Fact-Based Decision Making, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Performance Measurement, Process Optimization, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Team Management

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)).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 yearSick 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 yearHoliday pay, including Floating Holidays 13 days per calendar yearWork, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar yearParental Leave 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a childBereavement Leave 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar yearCaregiver Leave 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 daysVolunteer Leave 32 hours per calendar yearMilitary Spouse Time-Off 80 hours per calendar year