Distinguished Scientist, Nonclinical Safety Leader

Location: Hybrid role based in Spring House, Pennsylvania, or Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Base pay: $164,000–$282,900 per year

Company

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine develops medicines and healthcare solutions across multiple therapeutic areas and innovative modalities.

What you will do

• Lead project teams of nonclinical safety and pharmacokinetic scientists and ensure effective information transfer.
• Represent nonclinical safety on global, multidisciplinary project teams, providing toxicology expertise and strategic matrix leadership.
• Create target risk assessments, develop risk mitigation plans, and analyze toxicology and safety pharmacology studies for human safety implications.
• Generate hypotheses and investigative strategies for issue-resolution teams and contribute to medical safety, signal detection, and risk mitigation activities.
• Prepare global regulatory nonclinical documents and health authority responses supporting clinical trials and compound registrations.
• Collaborate with discovery, CMC, regulatory, licensing and acquisition, academic, and industry stakeholders while mentoring scientists and leading strategic initiatives.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Toxicology, Pharmacology, or a related discipline; a PhD, DVM, MD, or equivalent doctoral degree is preferred.
• At least 15 years of relevant pharmaceutical or biotech industry experience with a Master’s degree, or at least 10 years with a doctoral degree.
• Proven experience representing toxicology or nonclinical safety on multidisciplinary project teams.
• Strong understanding of the drug discovery and development process.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to collaborate across organizational levels.
• Experience with due diligence, GLP study direction or monitoring, emerging therapeutic modalities, and toxicology board certification is preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive work environment focused on diversity, dignity, and individual contribution.
• Participation in a consolidated retirement plan, pension, savings plan, and 401(k), subject to plan terms.
• Eligibility for the long-term incentive program.
• Paid vacation, sick time, holidays, personal and family time, parental leave, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, and military spouse time-off, subject to applicable policies.