Senior Manager, Bioethics, Policy, & Partnerships

Role Summary

The Senior Manager, Bioethics, Policy & Partnerships (BPP) will report to the Director, Bioethics, Policy & Partnerships and support the end-to-end processes and systems for the BPP team. The role involves coordinating bioethics activity tracking, managing operational activities, supporting training programs, and facilitating mentoring circles, while collaborating across BPP to advance policy and engagement efforts.

Responsibilities

• Manages Bioethics Activity Tracking & Archival:
  • Facilitates the tracking and archival of bioethics-related activities, including consultations, presentations, training, policy development and implementation, and projects.
  • Ensures timely follow-up and tracking of bioethics-related activities, including status of activity, completion of action items, and collection and documentation of final outcomes and stakeholder feedback.
  • Partners with other BPP colleagues to drive continuous process improvement through the generation, analysis, and consolidation of bioethics-related metrics and KPIs into the overall BPP Metrics/KPI reporting.
• Supports Bioethics Operational Activities:
  • With guidance from the Director, BPP and Sr. Director, OCMO Policy Strategy & Development, reviews J&J commenting opportunities to determine if comments should be requested from BPP-related committees, e.g., JJBC (J&J Bioethics Committee), JJCAT (J&J Committee for Advanced Therapies), etc., and/or OCMO representatives. Facilitates collection, collation, and timely follow up with J&J commenting leads.
  • Partners with the Director, BPP to develop initial presentations and draft meeting summaries for BPP-related committees.
  • Supports the Director, BPP in communicating with teams requesting Committee Consultations to ensure pre-read materials are prepared and distributed to JJBC members in advance of the meeting.
  • Develops JJBC Newsletter and distributes to JJBC members and BPP LT following review by the Director, BPP.
  • Partners with the Director, BPP to maintain materials, such as committee charters, templates, reference materials, etc. for BPP-related committees, e.g., JJBC, JJCAT, DT CoP (Data Transparency Community of Practice).
  • Partners with Communications team to facilitate updates to the Bioethics Hub content and communications.
• Supports Bioethics-related Training Program:
  • Partners with administrative support on the scheduling of bioethics training activities, including workshops, mentoring, ambassador program, and Bioethics Exchange program.
  • Provides training administrative support for the set-up of learning management system processes and materials to support bioethics-related training activities.
  • Supports Director, BPP in the maintenance and continuous improvement of the bioethics-related training and education program processes and materials.
• Facilitates Bioethics Mentoring Circle Cohorts:
  • Manages communications with J&J employees who have completed the Bioethics Workshop to drive participation in the Bioethics Mentoring Circle. Maintains documentation of past/current mentee cohort participants and future waiting list.
  • Supports roll-out and expansion of the bioethics mentoring circle program into other global regions, e.g. Asia Pacific, Latin America, Europe.
  • Partners with administrative support on scheduling of mentoring circle meetings.
  • Partners with mentee cohort participants and mentors to identify timing and topics for Bioethics Mentoring Circle meetings.
  • Partners with mentors to support the development/update and sharing of topic-related presentations and case studies in advance of mentoring meetings.
  • Provides administrative support for set-up and maintenance of the learning management system modules for each mentee cohort.
  • Maintains library of bioethics-related case studies and topics for use in future mentoring circle cohorts.
• Supports Cross-BPP Activities:
  • Supports BPP-related benchmarking and monitoring of the external landscape.
  • Supports Director, BPP in the tracking of BPP goals and objectives by obtaining regular status updates from BPP leadership team members.
  • Partners with BPP leadership and Communications team as requested by leadership to support messaging for BPP-related activities.

Qualifications

• Experience And Skills Required:
  • A minimum of 5 years of increasing business experience with a pharmaceutical/biotech/MedTech company is required.
  • Previous R&D/scientific experience is required.
• Experience And Skills Preferred:
  • Demonstrated ability to develop as well as implement work product/documents within an R&D setting is strongly preferred.
  • Highly proficient in working in a team environment, including leading without authority and facilitating a team to deliver outcomes is preferred.
  • Highly organized and meticulous; prior project management experience preferred.
  • Well-developed interpersonal, networking and oral and written communication skills; skilled in careful communication and sensitive matters is preferred.
  • Experience on a product development team is highly preferred.
  • Consistent track record of identifying, quantifying, and mitigating risk in a balanced manner, so as to meet ethical, legal and compliance standards and business objectives is preferred.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree strongly preferred.

Additional Requirements

• Travel: Anticipated 5% regional or international.

Skills

• Required: Alliance Formation, Business Communications, Business Planning, Business Savvy, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Data Reporting, Financial Forecasting, Mentorship, Operational Excellence, Organizing, Performance Measurement, Problem Solving, Regulatory Environment, Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Analysis, Strategic Change, Strategic Thinking, Technical Credibility
• Preferred: Alliance Formation, Business Communications, Business Planning, Business Savvy, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Data Reporting, Financial Forecasting, Mentorship, Operational Excellence, Organizing, Performance Measurement, Problem Solving, Regulatory Environment, Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Analysis, Strategic Change, Strategic Thinking, Technical Credibility