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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.

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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; Cutting-edge 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 di

📌 Medical Director Emerging Assets (Toronto)
🏢 Johnson & Johnson
📍 Toronto