Vice President, Commercial Data & AI

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Job Function Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function Data Science

Job Category People Leader

All Job Posting Locations: Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description We are searching for the best talent for Vice President, Commercial Data & AI Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Technology is recruiting for the Vice President, Commercial Data & AI. The primary location for this position is Titusville, NJ, with consideration given to Raritan, NJ, and Horsham, PA. This role may require up to 10% domestic and international travel.

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

Purpose Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Technology is seeking an exceptional Data and AI executive to lead the Commercial Data and AI portfolio in partnership with the Innovative Medicine North America (NA) Commercial Business and the Global Commercial Strategy Organization (GCSO). Reporting to the VP, Head of Technology for IM NA Commercial & GCSO, the Vice President, Commercial Data and AI will set and execute the strategy for a prioritized portfolio of data, data science, and AI programs that power the commercial value chain, spanning launch excellence, sales and marketing, medical affairs, market access, patient engagement, and commercial operations.

This leadership role is accountable for translating the most pressing commercial business challenges into a high-impact, outcome-driven portfolio, and for building and scaling enterprise-grade AI capabilities, including generative and agentic AI, required to deliver measurable value at scale. You will be the executive sponsor for a prioritized portfolio of commercial data, digital, and AI programs, directing a team of 80+ technology, data, and AI professionals and stewarding significant annual investment across the buy/borrow/build continuum to deliver with speed and scale. Success in this role requires the rare combination of deep technical fluency, commercial pharmaceutical acumen, executive influence, servant leadership, and a disciplined focus on responsible, compliant delivery over hype.

You Will Be Responsible For Strategy, Portfolio, and Value Realization

• Partner with senior business leaders across commercial, medical, patient, and technology teams to identify high-impact data & AI opportunities and translate them into clear problem statements, solution-oriented business cases, and multi-year roadmaps.
• Shape multi-year data and AI strategies and aligned organizational operating models that blend innovation, prioritization, delivery governance, and value realization across an enterprise portfolio of data and AI products and capabilities.
• Manage investment decisions across the product lifecycle, reallocating resources to the highest-value work and retiring redundant or underperforming efforts; review value delivery in dollars and outcomes with business peers on a quarterly cadence.

AI, Data Science, and Platform Leadership

• Advance high value use cases ranging from predictive to agentic AI, establishing scalable delivery patterns for GenAI and agentic systems (retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation and testing, prompt/workfl…