Director, Change Management, BGIA

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Job Function:

R&D Operations

Job Sub Function:

Multi-Family R&D Operations

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

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.

Our Oncology team is focused on the elimination of cancer by discovering new pathways and modalities to finding treatments and cures. We lead where medicine is going and need innovators with an unwavering commitment to results.

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

We are searching for the best talent for a Director, Change Management BGIA to be located in Titusville, NJ; Raritan, NJ; or Spring House, PA.

This position leads the Change Management Center of Excellence (CoE) within the Business Growth, Innovation & Advocacy (BGIA) organization and serves as the enterprise change management leader for Global Development (GD). The role is responsible for advancing change management capabilities across GD while maintaining an integrated view of significant initiatives occurring across Global Development. The Change Management CoE provides enterprise change leadership to strengthen change effectiveness, coordinate change initiatives across divisions, connect GD priorities with the broader R&D change landscape, and ensure strategic priorities are translated into disciplined execution in alignment with R&D change management strategies.

Reporting to the Senior Director, GD Strategic Planning, the Director is accountable for the leadership and performance of the CoE, including its strategy, operating model, governance, and ways of working. In partnership with Therapeutic Areas, functional leaders, strategic priority teams, and R&D stakeholders, the Director maintains visibility to major changes occurring across GD, helping leaders understand cumulative impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities to better align and sequence change efforts. The role requires a highly collaborative leader who can influence without authority, build strong cross-functional relationships, and remain closely connected to evolving business priorities to drive successful implementation and adoption of change

The Director is expected to bring practical change leadership expertise and maintain, or be willing to maintain, a recognized change management certification (e.g., Prosci, ACMP CCMP, or equivalent).

You will be responsible for:

 

Change Management CoE Leadership

• Establish and continuously evolve GD's change management methodology, frameworks, standards, playbooks, tools, and measures of success while applying certified change management methodologies (Prosci ADKAR, ACMP standards, or equivalent) to drive structured adoption
• Operate a scalable support model that provides direct delivery, advisory support, connection to change management support, and/or self-service toolkits based on scale and initiative needs; develop a framework to assess which level of support model is needed

• Build change management capabilities across GD through coaching, training, communities of practice, and leadership engagement
• Define and implement scalable structures, needs-assessment approaches, tools, coordination models, and resource expectations required to advance change delivery across the portfolio

• Partner with project sponsors, business owners, project managers, and division change leads to ensure each initiative is supported by an appropriately scoped change plan and change management toolkits with clear ownership
• Coordinated related change initiatives across GD to promote alignment and reduce duplication
• Ensure alignment with R&D change management strategies and collaborate among change leaders across R&D

• Establish and oversee standard performance indicators and governance forums to monitor portfolio-level change health and adoption outcomes

• Continuously assess emerging change management practices, tools, and certifications to keep the CoE leading-edge and ensure benchmarking against peer pharma companies and other large companies

Integrated Change Strategy and Planning

• Develop and maintain an integrated GD-wide change management strategy aligned to GD and R&D priorities
• Keep track of key initiatives occurring across GD and assess the cumulative impact of change across stakeholder groups to identify potential change saturation, competing priorities, adoption risks and sequencing opportunities
• Provide leadership with actionable insights regarding organizational readiness, change capacity, risks and mitigation strategies

Integrated Partnership with Communications CoE

• Operate on a single connected cadence with the Communications CoE so change initiatives and communications plans move together as one source of truth
• Partner with the Director, GD Communications to align messaging, channels (Town Halls, Credo, newsletters, councils), and audience strategy to active change programs
• Ensure cross-divisional consistency in tone, standards, and stakeholder engagement across GD

Capability Building & Culture

• Invest in people and culture by driving transformation initiatives centrally, managing change, and ensuring talent and culture strategies are pulled through effectively across GD
• Build internal change capability through leader coaching, curated toolkits, and a recognized practitioner community within GD
• Embed Credo-based behaviors and GD identity into the design and delivery of change programs; partner with HR and L&D on culture pull-through

Financial & Resource Stewardship

• Manage change management resources and external partners to ensure effective and disciplined support for enterprise priorities
• Partner with Finance and BGIA leadership to provide transparency on change-related investments

Required Education and Experience:

• BA/BSc or equivalent required; MBA or other advanced degree in Organizational Development, Behavioral Science, or related discipline preferred
• Active certification in change management is preferred / expected — Prosci Certified Change Practitioner, ACMP Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP), or equivalent recognized credential; however, demonstrated practical experience driving complex change, influencing senior stakeholders, and achieving adoption outcomes is more important than credentials alone. Advanced or master-level certification preferred

• A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience required, including demonstrated leadership of large-scale change programs

• In-depth understanding of drug development and the Pharmaceutical industry preferred; change leadership experience in other regulated industries is useful

• Demonstrated success leading or establishing a Change Management CoE, Program Management Office, Transformation Office or comparable portfolio-level capability is preferred
• Demonstrated executive presence, social emotional intelligence, and the ability to partner effectively with cross-functional leaders in a matrixed company is a must

• Highly collaborative leader able to influence without authority across divisions and functions
• Strategic mindset with the ability to translate strategy into structured, measurable change execution
• Independent thinker who brings new ideas forward, learns quickly in evolving environments, and actively scans outside of J&J for emerging change management practices, tools, and certifications
• Management consulting or consulting-style experience is preferred, given the need for structured problem solving, ambiguity management, stakeholder influence, and practical advisory support to business owners

• Demonstrated commitment to advancing and continuously improving change management capabilities across GD is required
• Demonstrated ability to drive impact through coaching, collaboration, and capability building with direct reports, project teams, and practitioner community members is required

• Strong facilitation skills to run effective meetings and workshops that result in clear decisions and assigned next steps
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office applications: PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
• Drives a Credo-based culture with a diverse and inclusive environment

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. 

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

If you are under 18 years of age you (the candidate) may need to obtain the necessary working papers or other documentation required by state law to start the assignment, as well as get a parent’s consent for the background check

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The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$164,000.00 - $282,900.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).



This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.



Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

Vacation –120 hours per calendar year

Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year

Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year

Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year

Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child

Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year

Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days

Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year

Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits