Associate Director, Global Real-World Evidence, Oncology (Oncology)

Location: Raritan, New Jersey, United States; hybrid; approximately 10% travel, primarily domestic with some international travel

Salary: $137,000–$235,750 USD annually

Company

Johnson & Johnson MedTech develops healthcare and innovative medicine solutions focused on preventing, treating, and curing complex diseases.

What you will do

• Support global real-world evidence strategies, Integrated Evidence Generation Plans, and long-range RWE roadmaps for oncology disease areas and assets.
• Drive the execution of priority RWE studies, ensuring timely delivery, scientific rigor, operational excellence, and effective dissemination of results.
• Collaborate with RWE researchers, programmers, cross-functional partners, regional teams, and external vendors to develop protocols, analyses, publications, and evidence materials.
• Provide methodological expertise on real-world data sources, observational study designs, analytic approaches, bias mitigation, and fit-for-purpose evidence methods.
• Analyze and synthesize real-world data, literature, competitive evidence, and stakeholder insights to support evidence-gap assessments and decision-making.
• Support governance, resource planning, vendor oversight, compliance, and stakeholder management across global RWE activities.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, health economics and outcomes research, public health, biostatistics, health policy, health services research, or a related field; PhD preferred.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consulting, academic, healthcare, RWE, epidemiology, outcomes research, medical affairs, or market access environments.
• Experience designing and executing RWE studies, including observational studies, retrospective database analyses, evidence synthesis, protocol development, analytic planning, result interpretation, and scientific dissemination.
• Strong knowledge of claims databases, electronic health records, registries, chart reviews, and other healthcare data sources.
• Experience collaborating with programmers, statisticians, epidemiologists, RWE researchers, cross-functional partners, and external vendors; statistical programming experience with SAS, R, or Python is preferred.
• Strong project management, communication, presentation, scientific writing, and stakeholder-management skills; oncology experience is strongly preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive work environment guided by the company’s Credo and focused on patient impact.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, business accident, and group legal insurance.
• Pension and 401(k) savings plans, plus eligibility for a long-term incentive program.
• Vacation, sick time, holidays, parental leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, and other paid time-off programs.
• Opportunities to collaborate across global, cross-functional RWE teams.