Medical Director Emerging Assets & Therapeutic Area Strategy

Biopharma Asia; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Canada is seeking a Medical Director Emerging Assets & TA Strategy in Toronto. You will provide medical leadership for emerging assets, drive evidence generation, and coordinate cross-functional strategy across multiple disease areas.

The role leads a cross-therapeutic medical team, collaborates with regional and global partners, and ensures medical readiness for future growth while aligning with Canada-specific needs.

Qualifications

• PhD or MD preferred with relevant pharmaceutical medical affairs experience.
• Minimum of strong medical/scientific function experience in pharma industry.
• Experience in leading and developing teams is required.
• Solid knowledge of regulatory compliance and SOP-driven environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide medical and scientific leadership across emerging assets and TA initiatives.
• Develop, deploy and align medical strategy with internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead cross-functional teams to support pre-launch and launch readiness.
• Represent Canada on global teams and liaise with partners to meet local needs.
• Navigate data generation plans and publication strategies for TA assets.

Skills

People leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder collaboration

Communication

Project management

Data generation planning

Medical/scientific leadership

Education

PhD or MD preferred

PharmD or MSc at minimum

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Function:

Medical Affairs Group

Job Sub Function:

Medical Affairs

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for the Medical Director Emerging Assets & Therapeutic Area Strategy position to join our Medical Affairs team located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Purpose:

The Medical Director Emerging Assets & Therapeutic Area (TA) Strategy provides medical and scientific leadership across both emerging assets and current cross-therapeutic area initiatives within J&J Innovative Medicine Canada. This agile leadership role is accountable for ensuring medical readiness and strategic planning for emerging therapies and supporting current cross-functional therapeutic area capabilities.

The Medical Director, Emerging Assets and TA Strategy serves as the medical lead for emerging portfolio assets prior to their transition into established therapeutic areas, driving medical readiness, evidence generation, and stakeholder engagement strategies that support future growth. The role provides scientific and strategic leadership to internal and external stakeholders while ensuring a seamless transition of assets as they mature.

The Medical Director, Emerging Assets and TA Strategy additionally leads an agile, cross-therapeutic medical team that can be deployed across multiple disease areas to address business priorities, provide specialized expertise, and fill capability gaps. The team supports therapeutic areas during periods of growth and transition while promoting collaboration, consistency, and operational excellence across the medical organization.

The Medical Director, Emerging Assets and TA Strategy is accountable for driving collaboration and alignment across therapeutic areas. They lead the development and execution of national medical education and field medical strategy. The Medical Director leads, coaches, and develops a team that may include Associate Medical Directors, Scientific Advisors, Medical Education, & Medical Science Liaisons in support of both the emerging assets and cross-TA strategy function.

You will be responsible for:

• Responsible for medical and scientific leadership for the J&J Emerging Assets and Medical Strategy team
• Accountable to develop and deploy the medical strategy for the TA in alignment with internal stakeholders and external physicians and sites
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders as co-lead of the cross-functional TA business team to align on portfolio strategy and areas of collaboration across TAs.
• Work seamlessly across several disease state areas (e.g., oncology, immunology, cardiology, neuroscience, other areas as needed)
• Ensure integration of TA portfolio strategy across internal stakeholders on brand team
• Identify opportunities to gather relevant information via Scientific Advisory Boards, including strategic development and tactical execution of these activities.
• Lead the Launch Readiness Process for assets in the pipeline. Pre-launch medical activities including advisory boards, congress activities, coordination of regional activity
• Actively represent Canada on global teams and liaise with multiple global partners to provide expertise and to ensure Canadian needs are met
• Lead and partner in interactions with key individual stakeholders to provide input and decision-making into short, medium, and long-range solutions to ensure appropriate data generation and data communication strategies
• Develop and maintain relationships with external investigators and opinion leaders involved in the delivery of TA care or engaged in TA studies
• Identifies data gaps for each product within the respective disorders areas and develops a Data Generation Plan. Presents data gaps to Global team and actively participates in the research approval process
• Develop, conduct and manage clinical protocols of high scientific standard in support of local initiatives
• Champion Investigator Initiated Studies to meet Canadian needs & oversight of final deliverables
• Development and execution of publication strategy
• Key Partner in company sponsored studies-develops strategy, protocol and hypotheses for phase 4 clinical trials, aids in the identification of sites
• Secures required resources to execute on the TA medical plan
• Leads, manages and develops a team that may include Associate Medical Director, Scientific Advisors, National Medical Education Manager and Medical Communications Lead
• Hires strong individuals into the team, manages performance, manages team operational budget
• Champions development of team members
• Provides strategic leadership and indirect coaching to field medical team
• Leads Medical Integrated Team, ensuring high standard for Medical Education and Medical Communications plans
• Maintain up-to-date scientific expertise with regular attendance at key scientific/clinical/economic conferences, training sessions and preceptorships

Travel estimated to be 20% of time both internationally and in market

This position is located at the 19 Green Belt Drive Toronto home office and follows a hybrid schedule of three days in the office and two days remotely per week

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Qualifications / Requirements:

• PhD or MD preferred; PharmD, MSc at a minimum combined with experience
• At least 8 years of experience in a medical/scientific function in the pharmaceutical industry
• People management experience required
• Ability to build and develop effective people and teams
• Strong knowledge of GCP, IMC code and Healthcare Compliance policies and procedures. Familiarity with working in an environment guided by SOPs.Solid knowledge of local regulatory requirements
• Strategic thinking and positive track record of flawless execution
• Proven ability to effectively communicate information to KOLs, as well as non-experts
• Ability to put data into perspective and communicate it concisely, as required
• Demonstrated critical thinking, strong project management skills and ability to impact decision making with relevant partners
• Prioritization skills and big picture orientation
• Scientific acumen across several disease states
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, multitask and follow through in a field-based role
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and other relevant software programs
• Experience developing and/or executing product strategy
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills including an ability to effectively observe, assess and mentor others on communicating complex technical, scientific or medical information to broad audience types
• Strong leadership capabilities and excellent interpersonal skills
• Proven track record developing, presenting and publishing clinical studies
• Experience related to Medical Education and/or Medical Communications is an asset

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Data Generation, Developing Others, Healthcare Trends, Inclusive Leadership, Medical Affairs, Medical Communications, Medical Compliance, People Leadership, Stakeholder Collaboration, Strategic Thinking

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