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Job Function:
Pharmaceutical Sales
Job Sub Function:
Sales – Neuroscience (Commission)
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Job Description:
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Senior District Manager, Neuroscience to be based in Seattle, Washington.
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 Neuroscience team tackles the world’s toughest brain health challenges including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, myasthenia gravis, epilepsy, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and autism. This patient-focused team helps address some of the most complex diseases of our time.
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 Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
Purpose: Grounded in Our Credo and our first responsibility to patients, putting the needs and well-being of the people we serve first, this role helps build impact by elevating district strategy and execution through enterprise influence, talent development, and strong cross-functional partnership.
Key Responsibilities
- Translate enterprise and regional direction into district strategy with clear priorities, measurable outcomes, and disciplined execution.
- Drive district performance across the Neuroscience portfolio by helping the team deliver customer-focused execution aligned to patient and business needs.
- Lead and develop a high-performing team through hiring excellence, performance management, and development planning that strengthens bench and readiness.
- Provide advanced coaching and mentoring that strengthens selling effectiveness, clinical execution using approved resources, and business acumen across the team.
- Drive demand generation and care transitions execution across outpatient and inpatient settings, aligning execution to local system dynamics and key stakeholders.
- Build relationships with key customers and stakeholders and strengthen cross-functional partnerships that improve customer experience and execution outcomes.
- Anticipate market dynamics using internal and external data to adjust strategy, remove barriers, and protect or grow performance.
- Influence internal partners across Sales leadership, Medical Affairs, and Marketing by providing field insights that strengthen strategy and plans.
- Reinforce a culture of accountability, inclusion, and team health while setting clear expectations and supporting the team through change.
- Adhere to Healthcare Compliance policies and guidelines while modeling a strong compliance mindset and reinforcing accountability across the team.
- Use evolving, approved AI-enabled tools where available to scale best practices, strengthen strategic planning, and elevate team execution while maintaining privacy, data integrity, and policy alignment.
Qualifications / Requirements
Education:
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree required; MS/MBA/PhD preferred.
Required:
- A valid driver’s license issued in one (1) of the fifty (50) United States.
- A minimum of eight (8) years of relevant professional experience in sales and/or cross-functional commercial roles within the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, or healthcare industry.
- A minimum of two (2) years of direct sales management experience, including leading through change and strong performance management and development planning capability.
- The ability to travel up to 50%, which may include overnight and weekend travel.
- Must live in the geography and/or be willing to relocate to the geography.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Experience defining collaboration approaches, aligning cross-functional partners, removing barriers, and influencing outcomes beyond the district through shared execution.
- Leading Others: Experience coaching others to lead effectively, anticipating and leading change, building followership, and driving clarity and prioritization across team and peer groups.
- Coaching: Experience designing coaching approaches, adapting coaching strategies to individual needs, and guiding others through coaching challenges to improve outcomes.
- Developing Others: Experience creating development pathways through feedback and experiences, building bench strength, and supporting succession readiness through skill transfer and exposure.
- Strategic Thinking: Experience using internal and external data to build compliant integrated district plans, align customer priorities with business goals, and translate strategy into clear execution expectations.
- Data Savvy: Experience establishing best practices for data-driven decision making, using performance insights to identify trends and shape strategy, and leveraging evolving approved AI-enabled tools where available while maintaining privacy, data integrity, and policy alignment.
Preferred:
- Demonstrated enterprise influence, including leading initiatives beyond the district or contributing to regional programs that scale best practices.
- Experience in the Neuroscience therapeutic area, including leading execution in complex systems and stakeholder environments.
- Deep experience in large account management and access and reimbursement dynamics across systems.
- Experience leading district-wide or regional capability-building, change management, or strategic execution initiatives.
- Demonstrated commitment to learning emerging technologies, such as AI, through exploration, iteration, and applying new tools over time.
- Experience building team AI literacy and confidence, reinforcing trusted, responsible AI use and sound judgment in applying AI-enabled insight.
Other:
- This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities; additional duties may be assigned as business needs evolve in alignment with business priorities and enterprise needs.
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 in line with our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers and internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation.
Seattle, WA
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Coaching, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer Centricity, Developing Others, Inclusive Leadership, Interpersonal Influence, Leadership, Market Knowledge, Neuroscience, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pharmaceutical Sales Marketing, Product Knowledge, Revenue Management, Sales, Sales Trends, Strategic Sales Planning, Tactical Planning, Team Management
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$141,000.00 - $243,800.00
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