Director, Real World Evidence (RWE)

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything.

Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:
Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:
Data Science

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

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.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Role Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Scientific Director to join our RWE team.

The successful candidate will apply advanced statistical methods to support algorithm development, patient stratification, innovative trial design and novel endpoint development for neuroscience.

This role will help shape the next generation of data-driven solutions for neuroscience drug discovery and development, working closely with the Neuroscience Therapeutic Area, Clinical Development, Quantitative Sciences, Regulatory and Patient Reported Outcomes.

 

Key Responsibilities:


* Design, develop, and validate statistical approaches and algorithms for patient stratification, leveraging both clinical trial and real-world datasets.


* Lead the statistical design, analysis, and validation of novel digital endpoints (e.g., wearables, speech, cognition) for neuroscience.


* Partner with our multidisciplinary team to ensure biological and clinical relevance of patient stratification strategies and novel endpoints.


* Apply rigorous statistical methodologies to algorithm development, ensuring reproducibility, robustness, and regulatory readiness.


* Develop and maintain statistical analysis plans, simulation studies, and innovative methodologies tailored to multimodal datasets.


* Apply advanced statistical and machine learning methods to large-scale datasets, including EHRs, claims, registries and longitudinal cohort studies.


* End-to-end expertise in RWE research including conceptualizing research questions, data feasibility, study design, analysis, programming, and interpretation.


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