Associate Director, Thought Leader Liaison, Rheumatology-West

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for an Associate Director, Thought Leader Liaison, Rheumatology West region. This is a field-based position located in the West of the United States. Geography can include, but not limited to West Territory, Southern CA, Southern NV, AZ, NM, CO, WY.

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The Associate Director, Thought Leader Liaison, will lead Key Opinion Leader (KOL) engagement through developing and maintaining relationships with current and future thought leaders. This includes Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers and Biologic Coordinators. This will result in the management of an assigned region. This Manager will be responsible for leading KOL Strategy and executing engagement activities and events as part of the brand strategic plan. This manager will also be responsible for identifying and vetting promotional speakers, provide coaching and manage communications to KOLs who are part of Johnson & Johnson’s National Faculty speaker bureau. Additional responsibilities may include leading and/or partnering with the home office-based teams to develop and deliver marketing and/or educational programs and leading professional education efforts at conferences.

Responsibilities include:

• Partner cross functionally throughout the organization to oversee and execute regional and national KOL engagement plans.


• Lead engagement strategy between in House Marketing, Field Selling and partner with medical affairs for delivering on Rheumatology specific deliverables.


• Successfully and compliantly exchange knowledge, gather insights, and build advocacy with Key Opinion Leaders


• Interface with KOL’s through office visits, Society/Medical Congress meetings or at Advisory Boards.


• Lead regional and National Rheumatology Medical Congress engagement and education planning and attend assigned Congresses.


• Identify and help to recruit approved candidates for Marketing Advisory Boards and oversee content development, approval, and capture feedback to meet Marketing strategy objectives.


• Manage Promotional Speaker selection and communications for assigned geographical coverage.


• Provide insights and learnings back to marketing, medical and/or sales, as appropriate and within compliance guidelines.