Early Development Team Leader, CV Health Tech

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Job Function:

Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:

Clinical Development & Research – MD

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Allschwil, Basel-Country, Switzerland

Job Description:

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 benefit–risk 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 IM–MedTech–Digital ecosystem.

 

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

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  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 15–20%).

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

Internal

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

 

External

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.

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Clinical Research and Regulations, Clinical Trials, Collaborating, Corporate Governance, Data Management and Informatics, Developing Others, Drug Discovery Development, Global Market, Health Care Regulation, Inclusive Leadership, Industry Analysis, Innovation, Leadership, Market Research, Research Ethics, Scientific Evaluation, Scientific Research, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Change