Medical Director, Dermatology and Respiratory – Clinical Development

Purpose

The Medical Director provides medical and scientific leadership for late-stage dermatology and respiratory clinical development. The role leads assigned studies and contributes to program strategy, with accountability for rigorous trial design, participant safety, medical oversight, data interpretation, and high-quality clinical and regulatory deliverables across immune-mediated respiratory, dermatologic, and allergic diseases.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, execution, analysis, and reporting of Phase 2 and Phase 3 respiratory, allergy, or dermatology trials, aligned with clinical development strategy, Good Clinical Practice, and global regulatory requirements.
• Serve as medical lead for assigned studies, including eligibility guidance, medical monitoring, safety review, protocol deviation assessment, data review, and ongoing benefit-risk evaluation.
• Lead 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, labeling proposals, and regulatory interactions, including marketing application activities when applicable.
• Interpret emerging clinical, translational, and competitive evidence and translate it into actionable development recommendations.
• Build credible relationships with investigators, external experts, patient organizations, development partners, and health authorities, and represent J&J Innovative Medicine and the Immunology TA with professionalism and integrity both internally and externally.
• Support disease- and pathway-area strategy, including indication and target prioritization, future treatment paradigms, precision medicine, patient stratification, and novel outcome measures for clinical trials, practice, or labeling.
• Support assessment and due diligence of new mechanisms, modalities, and external opportunities relevant to respiratory medicine, allergy, dermatology, and immune-mediated inflammatory disease.
• Mentor clinical team members and contribute to a collaborative, inclusive, innovative, and high-accountability culture.

Qualifications / Requirements

• MD or equivalent medical degree is required.
• Clinical expertise in pulmonology, allergy, asthma, and immunology, or a closely related discipline is strongly preferred, with relevant board certification or board eligibility preferred.
• Three or more years of relevant clinical development or clinical research experience, with pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry experience strongly preferred.
• Experience leading or materially contributing to interventional clinical trials, including protocol development, medical monitoring, safety and data review, and study reporting, is required.
• Experience with respiratory airway or allergic disease trials e.g. asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) are preferred.
• Late-stage development experience and experience contributing to global regulatory interactions or submissions are preferred.
• Strong clinical judgment and current knowledge of immunology, relevant disease biology and clinical practice in respiratory medicine and allergy, clinical trial methodology, benefit-risk assessment, and Good Clinical Practice.
• Ability to analyze complex data, identify material risks, and communicate a clear recommendation.
• Demonstrated effectiveness leading global, cross-functional, and matrixed teams, with the ability to collaborate, influence, and maintain shared accountability.
• Clear scientific writing, presentation, external engagement, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Curiosity, flexibility, innovation, and a strong commitment to addressing unmet patient needs.
• 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.