Johnson & Johnson (J&J;) is recruiting for the role of Associate Director, Product Mastering within its Innovative Medicine (IM) division. The position is based in Madrid, Spain, with a secondary location in Barcelona.

Job Summary The Associate Director, Product Mastering is responsible for maintaining and governing an end-to-end mastering capability for product-related data, spanning the full product lifecycle from discovery to commercialization, regulatory, and loss of exclusivity. The role ensures product master data—including compounds, formulations, investigational products, clinical identifiers, regulatory submissions, and commercial brand hierarchies—is trusted, harmonized, and semantically consistent across R&D; to commercial operations.

Key Responsibilities - End‑to‑End Product Mastering Strategy – Develop and execute a data management strategy covering the full product lifecycle; ensure a single authoritative source of truth, harmonized across functions and systems; identify gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for automation, external data partnerships, and standards alignment.

- Governance & Standards – Establish stewardship and governance models for product master data across R&D;, Supply Chain and Commercial; define and enforce standards for product hierarchies and data model extensions; partner with Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Operations, Supply Chain, and Commercial to support submission, labeling, and compliance needs.
- Integration & Collaboration – Collaborate with Knowledge Management, Data Products, and Metadata/Cataloging teams to make product master data discoverable, connected,



and reusable; align with parallel MDM domains (e.g., patient, site, account) to ensure cross‑domain consistency and best practices.
- Quality, Performance & Communication – Monitor dashboards and track KPIs for data quality, timeliness, and traceability; provide governance dashboards and reports to leadership; communicate vision, progress, and value realization to senior executives and cross‑functional stakeholders.

Qualifications - Education – Bachelor or Master’s in life sciences, regulatory sciences, informatics, data science, or related field. Advanced degree preferred.

- Experience – 5+ years in pharma/biotech R&D; or commercial functions with significant exposure to product lifecycle and regulatory data.
- Expertise – Master data management, data governance and stewardship; ontology development and knowledge graph applications; integration of product data across discovery, development, clinical, regulatory, and commercial domains; product data standards (e.g., IDMP) and metadata management.
- Skills – Strong leadership, communication, cross‑functional collaboration, and ability to influence and drive adoption of product mastering practices.

Required Skills - Advanced Analytics

- Budget Management
- Compliance Management
- Critical Thinking
- Data Analysis
- Data Privacy Standards
- Data Quality
- Data Reporting
- Data Visualization
- Developing Others
- Digital Fluency
- Inclusive Leadership
- Leadership
- Strategic Thinking
- Team Management Preferred Skills - Cross‑Functional Collaboration
- Data Science
- Data Savvy

📌 Associate Director Product Master (Madrid)
🏢 7300-Janssen-Cilag S.A. Legal Entity
📍 Madrid