Early Development Team Leader, CV Health Tech

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Role Summary

The Early Development Team Leader (Senior Director - EDTL) Cardiovascular Health Tech (CV Health Tech)leads the highest-level cross-functional and cross-sector team responsible for optimizing patient benefitrisk profile and long-term portfolio value across the Cardiovascular Cross-Sector Portfolio.

This role extends the traditional EDTL model to integrated portfolio leadership across Innovative Medicine MedTech Digital Health Data Science and external ecosystems.

The EDTL drives the development and execution of unified clinical digital and evidence strategies across cardiovascular initiatives and ensures delivery against defined Target Product Profiles regulatory pathways value demonstration requirements and enterprise portfolio objectives.

Operating in alignment with Company Therapeutic Area and Disease Area strategies the EDTL integrates exploratory innovation into structured stage-gated development frameworks to address critical unmet cardiovascular needs and strengthen the IMMedTechDigital ecosystem.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of a cross-sector cardiovascular development strategy focused on optimizing the patient journey by integrating Innovative Medicine and MedTech solutions at key stages of disease management ensuring alignment with target product profiles value demonstration and enterprise portfolio priorities

• Drive portfolio-level development and lifecycle optimization strategies to maximize long-term scientific differentiation clinical impact and commercial value.

• Chair and lead the Cross-Sector Cardiovascular CDT ensuring structured governance disciplined decision-making senior leadership alignment and stage-gated progression of initiative across JJIM and MedTech platforms along the cardiovascular patient pathway.

• Translate exploratory cardiovascular initiatives into executable development pathways with defined diligence gates and enterprise resource alignment.

• Ensure effective planning and prioritization across therapeutic device and digital platforms proactively identifying and managing strategic and operational risks.

• Champion the Cardiovascular Cross-Sector Portfolio across all organizational levels while bringing enterprise and portfolio perspective to cross-functional discussions.

• Ensure robust and strategically aligned clinical trial programs digital validation strategies publication plans IIS real-world evidence generation and AI-enabled predictive modeling initiatives globally.

• Serve as the central integrator across Innovative Medicine MedTech Medical Affairs Digital Data Science Strategy and Business Development within the One J&J governance framework.

• Drive and maintain strategic alliances across Innovative Medicine MedTech Digital and external collaborators including academic institutions consortia and frontier innovation partners.

• Represent the Cross-Sector Cardiovascular CDT in internal governance forums and with external stakeholders (health authorities academic partners consortium leaders and strategic collaborators).

• May lead cross-functional therapeutic area or enterprise initiatives beyond the immediate CDT scope.

Minimum Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Medicine required (MD/PhD preferred; MBA desirable).

• Significant pharmaceutical and/or MedTech industry experience leading complex cross-functional development programs in cardiovascular or related therapeutic areas.

• Demonstrated ability to operate at portfolio level within global matrix organizations.

• Strong understanding of cardiovascular disease biology clinical development paradigms and integrated therapeutic-device-digital ecosystems.

• Experience interacting with governance bodies and senior leadership forums.

• Experience in exploratory R&D cross-sector innovation or portfolio strategy within a healthcare organization.

• Willingness to travel internationally (approximately 1520%).

Other Requirements

• Deep understanding of clinical utility and scientific disease areas relevant to cardiovascular medicine.

• Matrix leadership: leads cross-functional and cross-sector teams through governance forums balancing portfolio priorities with initiative-level execution.

• Team leadership: motivates high-performing teams builds cohesion ensures resilience and accountability under pressure.

• Strategic agility: understands the broader cardiovascular portfolio and enterprise context; translates scientific and business concepts into near- and long-term deliverables; makes sound decisions in conditions of ambiguity.

• Communication excellence: influences and builds consensus on CDT strategies and objectives; ensures high-quality information flow into out of and across the CDT; credibly represents the organization externally.

• Proven track record of delivering complex collaborative programs and implementing innovative cross-sector approaches in response to evolving scientific and market landscapes.

• People leadership experience

• Up to 15-20 % domestic and international travel.
  

Key Working Relationships

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Cardiovascular Cross-Sector Leadership Therapeutic Area Leadership Functional Leadership (Clinical Regulatory Safety Biometrics Medical Affairs Commercial) MedTech R&D and Medical Affairs Digital Data Science and AI Governance Strategy & Operations

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Academic collaborators Health authorities Thought leaders Strategic partners Public-private consortia

Digital health and AI collaborators

Role Intent

This position formalizes a next-generation EDTL construct:

A portfolio-level cross-sector development authority that integrates exploratory innovation into structured governable and value-driven cardiovascular programs across Innovative Medicine MedTech and Digital platforms.

The role ensures scientific rigor governance excellence and enterprise alignment while accelerating holistic cardiovascular disease solutions from early exploration through lifecycle optimization.

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