Associate Medical Director, Dermatology and Respiratory – Clinical Development

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, execution, analysis, and reporting of Phase 2 and Phase 3 dermatology and respiratory trials, aligned with clinical development strategy, Good Clinical Practice, and global regulatory requirements.
• Medical oversight for assigned studies, including eligibility guidance, medical monitoring, safety review, protocol deviation assessment, and data review.
• Participate actively in cross-functional study teams and partner closely with clinical scientists and matrix stakeholders to help drive timely decisions, risk mitigation, and delivery of study milestones from study concept and start-up through database lock, reporting, disclosure, and close-out.
• Develop and review clinical documents, including study concepts, protocols, case report forms, operational and analytic plans, investigator brochures, statistical analysis inputs, clinical study reports, publications and other scientific communications.
• Contribute medical content to regulatory submissions, briefing packages, health authority responses, and regulatory interactions.
• Provide clinical expertise and scientific leadership in the areas of responsibility.
• Build effective relationships with investigators, external experts, patient organizations, and development partners, and represent J&J Innovative Medicine and the Immunology TA with professionalism and integrity both internally and externally.
• Authorship of abstracts and manuscripts for publication based on clinical trial data and presentation of data and scientific information to the organization and externally at all levels.
• Support disease- and pathway-area strategy, evaluation of novel outcome measures, and assessment of new mechanisms, modalities, and external opportunities relevant to dermatology, respiratory medicine, allergy, and immune-mediated inflammatory disease.
• Contribute to a collaborative, inclusive, innovative, and high-accountability culture; actively seek feedback to strengthen clinical-development capability.

Qualifications / Requirements

• MD or equivalent medical degree is required.
• Board Certification / Eligibility (or equivalent) in dermatology, allergy and immunology, or pulmonary desirable.
• Experience and clinical expertise in dermatology, allergy and immunology, pulmonology, or a closely related immune-mediated discipline is strongly preferred.
• Relevant clinical care or clinical research experience in an academic setting, pharmaceutical or biotechnology is preferred.
• Experience in design, execution, analysis, reporting of interventional clinical trials, ideally for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases in dermatology or related disease areas, is strongly preferred.
• Strong clinical judgment and current knowledge of immunology, relevant disease biology and clinical practice in dermatology, allergy, and/or respiratory medicine, clinical trial methodology, and Good Clinical Practice.
• Ability to analyze clinical and scientific data, identify important issues, and communicate a clear recommendation.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in global, cross-functional, and matrixed teams.
• Clear scientific writing, presentation, collaboration, and influencing skills.
• Learning agility, curiosity, creativity, openness to feedback, and a strong commitment to teamwork and shared accountability.
• Comfort using artificial intelligence, digital tools, and emerging technologies responsibly to improve productivity, strengthen scientific analysis, and support high-quality clinical development deliverables.
• Ability to travel ~10-20% domestically and internationally as business needs require.