Senior Manager / Associate Director, EHDS Data Cataloguing

Location: Hybrid, 3 days onsite weekly, with positions available in Beerse, Belgium; Leiden, the Netherlands; High Wycombe or Maidenhead, UK; Allschwil, Switzerland; or Spring House, Titusville, or Raritan, United States. Remote work may be considered case by case with company approval.

Base pay ranges by location: Netherlands €82,900–€144,210; Belgium €96,000–€165,025; Switzerland CHF 136,000–CHF 234,830.

Company

Johnson & Johnson MedTech develops healthcare and medical technology solutions as part of Johnson & Johnson's broader healthcare organization.

What you will do

• Lead the EHDS Data Inventory and Cataloguing workstream across functions and geographies.
• Identify, classify, describe, register, and maintain in-scope clinical and health-data holdings.
• Apply EHDS secondary-use categories, metadata standards, and HealthDCAT-AP requirements to create complete and discoverable catalogue entries.
• Coordinate data owners and subject matter experts to resolve information gaps, ownership questions, quality issues, and coverage gaps.
• Develop operating procedures, guidance, controls, training, quality standards, and performance measures for cataloguing and metadata management.
• Partner with Data Sharing, Legal, Privacy, Regulatory Affairs, Technology, and data architecture teams to implement sustainable cataloguing solutions and processes.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in a scientific, technology, data, or healthcare discipline, or equivalent experience.
• At least 8 years of relevant pharmaceutical, healthcare, scientific, or data experience.
• Expertise in data cataloguing, metadata management, data classification, data governance, or a related discipline.
• Knowledge of clinical and health-data standards such as CDISC SDTM or ADaM and controlled terminology; familiarity with OMOP, HL7 FHIR, HealthDCAT-AP, or DCAT-AP is advantageous.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects, coordinating distributed data owners, and implementing sustainable governance, controls, training, and quality processes.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills in a global matrix environment; domestic or international travel may be required.

Nice to have

• Experience with OMOP, HL7 FHIR, HealthDCAT-AP, or DCAT-AP.
• Experience with advanced analytics, analytics dashboards, database management, data security, or information security risk management.
• Experience evaluating and overseeing external cataloguing services or technology vendors.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working environment focused on work-life balance.
• Competitive salary, annual bonus or sales commission depending on role and location, and location-specific benefits.
• Vacation, parental leave of at least 12 weeks, bereavement, caregiver, and volunteer leave.
• Well-being reimbursement and programs supporting financial, physical, and mental health.
• Career development opportunities, recognition awards, and eligible insurance plans.