Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Medical Information / Payer & Health Systems Fellowship

Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
Location: Horsham, PA
Recruiting: 1 Position for Immunology and 1 Position for Solid Tumor Oncology for a 2-Year Fellowship

Janssen, the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, aims to transform individual lives and fundamentally change the way diseases are managed, interpreted, and prevented.

The two-year fellowship at Janssen Scientific Affairs offers unique experiences that enable fellows to advance and apply skills across industry and payer settings. The fellow will spend 2 years in Medical Information and Knowledge Integration (MIKI), working closely with both the MIKI Therapeutic Area (Immunology or Solid Tumor Oncology) as well as MIKI Payer & Health Systems. Additionally, the fellow will have an 8-12 week external rotation in pharmacy benefit management.

In the MIKI Therapeutic Area component, the fellow will hone skills in critiquing and communicating complex scientific information to a variety of audiences, including internal business partners and externally with consumers, healthcare professionals, and healthcare decision makers (HCDMs). 

The Payer & Health Systems component provides advanced skill training in an emerging area focused on meeting the needs of payers, health systems, and clinical decision resource organizations (CDROs) such as compendia and value framework organizations. 

The program offers opportunities to expand knowledge on managed care markets through customer engagement, projects, conferences, and a real-world experiential rotation in pharmacy benefits manager. 

Fellows will also have opportunities to collaborate cross-functionally with Medical Affairs, Real-World Value & Evidence and/or Market Access, based on upon availability.

Medical Information and Payer & Health Systems

• Develop in-depth knowledge of the therapeutic area.
• Enhance skills in scientific literature retrieval, analysis, and communication.
• Improve scientific writing skills by authoring scientific response letters and escalated medical information requests from clinicians, payers and other population-based healthcare decision-makers.
• Utilize critical thinking and clinical knowledge to develop fair and balanced communications of product information to CDROs including compendia, medical societies, clinical pathway developers, and HCDMs.
• Participate in the creation and maintenance of formulary dossiers.
• Support product launch and sales training material development.
• Develop training materials focused on payer, health system, and clinical decision resource topics.
• Provide medical review for promotional scientific materials.
• Support development of Voice-of-Customer reports, including analysis of inquiries received by Janssen Medical Information Communication Channels and identification of trends/key insights.
• Support therapeutic area value assessment framework reviews.
• Participate in cross-functional teams and assist with ad-hoc initiatives within the Medical Information department.

Pharmacy Benefit Manager

• Develop an understanding of the various roles a pharmacist plays at a managed care organization and basic operations of a managed care organization.
• Support Formulary Management Pharmacists and Clinical Marketing Intelligence teams to update and maintain formulary decision making resources (e.g. drug monographs, drug class reviews, prior authorization criteria, cost savings analyses).
• Present clinical topics to the pharmacy team during specialty subcommittee meetings.
• Develop an understanding of the strategy for monitoring pipeline drugs for a managed care organization.