Medical Affairs Manager
About this opportunity
At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com .
As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.
Job Function:
Medical Affairs Group
Job Sub Function:
Medical Affairs
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Job Description:
Job Description:
Our company flourishes with a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our employees and is committed to inclusion. Johnson & Johnson is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our culture is interconnected by the shared values of Our Credo. It is a culture that celebrates diversity and varied perspectives, and helps its employees achieve an effective balance between work and home life and supports their efforts to have a positive impact on their communities.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead launch readiness and lifecycle execution, translating scientific insights and evidence gaps into clear local medical plans and priorities.
Provide scientific expertise and support to internal and external stakeholders across the assigned therapeutic area.
Partner with regional and local Medical Affairs, Medical Education, Commercial, Regulatory, Market Access and Clinical Operations teams to align strategy and execution.
Build trusted scientific relationships with external experts, investigators, professional societies and other relevant stakeholders.
Plan and deliver advisory boards, scientific exchange, medical education and internal capability-building activities.
Serve as the scientific lead for Medical Affairs studies.
Review and approve promotional, educational, labelling and training materials in line with local requirements.
Lead and develop direct reports through coaching, performance management and capability building.
Manage delivery, budgets, risks and timelines in compliance with company policies, regulatory requirements and industry codes.
Ideal Candidate Profile:
Medical or science background (pharmacy, life-science/biotechnology)
PhD or Medical Doctor qualifications are preferred.
At least 5 years industry/business experience with a minimum of 3 years of experience in Medical Affairs – must be able to execute standard medical affairs activities independently with minimal supervision
Experience in research and development (R&D) a significant advantage
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Analytical Reasoning, Budget Management, Clinical Research and Regulations, Clinical Trials Operations, Communication, Compliance Management, Developing Others, Digital Culture, Digital Literacy, Healthcare Trends, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Medical Affairs, Medical Communications, Medical Compliance, Product Strategies, Program Management, Strategic Thinking, Team Management, Training People
Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Medical Affairs role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 368 comparable Manager Medical Affairs roles across 83 biopharma companies.
Salary context
95 of 368 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 368 comparable roles
+ 37 more countries
Seniority mix
368 of 368 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
115 of 368 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
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How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.