[Innovative Medicine] Sr. Manager, Launch & Marketing Excellence

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 jnj.com . As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit. Job Function: Marketing Job Sub Function: Strategic Marketing Job Category: Professional All Job Posting Locations: Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan 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 & Responsibility This role serves as a senior individual contributor driving launch and marketing excellence across all three business units in Japan. The role independently leads high-priority, cross-functional initiatives, translates enterprise priorities into practical plans, and delivers measurable outcomes through influence rather than formal authority. For Launch Excellence, the role rigorously assesses launch readiness, identifies risks and opportunities, and mobilizes cross-functional stakeholders to resolve issues and strengthen execution. For Marketing Excellence, the role evaluates organizational and individual capability needs and designs or delivers targeted solutions that strengthen marketers' strategic and executional capabilities. The role also contributes Japan perspectives to Asia Pacific Launch and Marketing Excellence forums, leverages regional resources and best practices, and helps translate relevant regional priorities into local impact. About the Job The role has two core areas of responsibility: Launch Excellence and Marketing Excellence. Across both areas, the Senior Manager is expected to independently lead complex initiatives, influence senior stakeholders, and deliver measurable business and organizational outcomes. A. Launch Excellence 1. Drive launch readiness for prioritized brands Facilitate cross-functional discussions and collaboration throughout launch preparation. Assess launch status using agreed dashboards, milestones, and KPIs, ensuring that risks, gaps, and decisions are clearly surfaced. Partner with cross-functional teams to define solutions, clarify ownership, and drive timely resolution of emerging issues. Provide independent, strategic recommendations to brand and business leaders to strengthen launch readiness and execution. 2. Advance launch learning and best-practice sharing Capture and synthesize lessons from launches and priority initiatives. Translate insights into practical frameworks, tools, and recommendations that can be applied across brands and business units. Create forums and mechanisms that enable consistent sharing and adoption of relevant launch best practices. B. Marketing Excellence 3. Strengthen organizational and individual marketing capabilities Independently lead enterprise priorities that strengthen organizational and individual marketing capabilities. Diagnose capability gaps using stakeholder input, business needs, and available data, then design fit-for-purpose interventions. Manage complex workstreams end to end, including strategy, stakeholder alignment, planning, execution, measurement, and continuous improvement. Partner with business-unit leaders, Marketing Directors, cross-functional partners, and regional colleagues to ensure relevance, adoption, and measurable impact. C. Responsibilities Across Both Areas 4. Shape strategy and deliver results through influence Proactively identify unmet needs, emerging risks, and opportunities across Launch Excellence and Marketing Excellence. Develop clear recommendations, challenge assumptions constructively, and convert ambiguity into structured action plans. Make sound decisions within the scope of responsibility, escalate appropriately, and maintain momentum with limited supervision. Demonstrate ownership for outcomes, not only activities, and communicate progress, trade-offs, and impact clearly to senior stakeholders. Requirements Preferred Experience The following experience is preferred. Candidates will be considered based on the overall relevance and strength of their experience. Five years or more of pharmaceutical business experience in a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company, or relevant pharmaceutical launch consulting experience. Successful track record in marketing and the launch of new products. </spa