About the Role
This role is a business strategist and product-minded technology leader who partners closely with the regional MedTech leadership team to shape growth strategies, modernize platforms, and deliver differentiated digital and AI capabilities for customers and patients. This leader serves as the critical point of connection between business strategy and technology execution, developing technology as a competitive advantage for the region and business. You will lead a business-facing technology organization in the region, orchestrating the full breadth of J&J Technology products, platforms, and services to maximize value, speed, and quality for the MedTech portfolio. You will engage deeply with senior business leaders to define priorities and deliver outcomes. The EP-NV business encompasses digital surgery/robotics platforms, OR integration, imaging and computer vision, field service digitization, supply continuity and instrument lifecycle analytics.
Responsibilities
- Co-create the regional technology strategy for Electrophysiology and Neurovascular in alignment with MedTech business goals and broader ASPAC goals.
- Translate strategy into a prioritized multi-year product and platform roadmap with clear value outcomes.
- Develop technology as a competitive advantage, accelerating innovation, simplification, and go-to-market agility.
- Serve as strategic technology partner to regional senior leaders, identifying opportunities and advising on technology transformation.
- Provide accountable technology leadership for end-to-end BU outcomes, aligning strategy, platforms, and execution.
- Develop compliant technology through strong partnership with functions such as Cybersecurity, Regulatory Affairs, and Legal Affairs.
- Build strong cross-region partnerships to leverage technology efforts for digitalization.
- Operationalize AI/ML and GenAI across commercial, supply chain, service, and R&D-adjacent use cases.
- Use data and analytics to deliver actionable insights across countries and functions.
- Champion interoperable data platforms, real-time telemetry from connected devices, and privacy-by-design practices.
- Drive a disciplined product management approach to ideate, build, and scale high-impact solutions.
- Link roadmaps to clear OKRs and dependable delivery.
- Own the business technology portfolio for the region, including prioritization, funding, delivery, adoption, and benefits realization.
- Leverage global JJT product teams and platforms.
- Lead and develop a high-performing team of product, engineering, data, and delivery leaders.
- Attract world-class talent and foster an inclusive, learning-oriented culture.
- Promote retention of high-performing team members and foster continuous growth and development.
- Bring an entrepreneurial, externally networked mindset to curate outside-in innovation and strategic partnerships.
- Shape policies and deliver outcomes through partnerships with technology providers, governments, and advisory boards.
- Drive people leadership responsibilities as a leader of people leaders, coaching and supporting people managers.
- Build an inclusive, high-engagement culture within their own teams.
- Develop and manage a fit-for-purpose regional technology budget, ensuring investment decisions align with value, risk, and compliance.
- Continuously optimize run vs. change.
- Uphold quality, cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance expectations for MedTech software/services.
- Partner with Quality/Regulatory, Legal, and Privacy on regional requirements.
- Ensure technology enables successful product launches and lifecycle management in the region.
- Tailor solutions to local market dynamics and care pathways.
- Champion customer-centric design with providers, payers, and health systems.
- Translate HCP and patient needs into product requirements for platform and workflow innovation.
- Play a critical role in coordinating customers’ engagement in technology aspects.
- Contribute to building tech capabilities and strengthening tech skills of commercialization teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (e.g., Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or Business).
- 5+ years in technology leadership with direct experience leading line-of-business, engineering, data operations, or product teams.
- 3+ years of people leadership operating at scale in matrixed environments.
- Demonstrated ability to apply technology to solve business problems with exceptional communication, influence, and stakeholder partnership across senior levels.
- Experience with business processes (bids & tenders, order to cash, customer engagement etc.) and their interface with foundational technology platforms (ERP, CRM, MES etc.).
- Proven track record in product management, agile delivery, and portfolio governance.
- Ability to connect roadmaps to measurable outcomes.
- Fluency with cloud, APIs, data platforms, analytics, and AI/ML/GenAI.
- Hands-on leadership implementing these capabilities beyond pilot stages.
- Experience modernizing legacy environments while introducing new digital and AI-enabled solutions safely and compliantly.
- Proven collaborator with demonstrated ability to influence decisions across a complex, matrixed organization.
- Demonstrated experience working with clinical, commercial, and supply chain stakeholders across multi-country regional footprints.
- Demonstrated success hiring and developing outstanding technical and product talent.
- Recognized executive presence and change leadership.
Skills
- Analytical Reasoning
- Consulting
- Cost Management
- Developing Others
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Inclusive Leadership
- Leadership
- People Performance Management
- Performance Measurement
- Product Development
- Product Strategies
- Project Management Methodology (PMM)
- Research and Development
- Resource Management
- Software Development Management
- Strategic Supply Chain Management
- Team Management
- AI/ML/GenAI
- Cloud
- APIs
- Data Platforms
- Analytics
Location
- North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years in technology leadership
- 3+ years of people leadership
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
- Master’s degree preferred
About the Company
- At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.
- As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.
- About MedTech Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech
- About Cardiovascular Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Cardiovascular? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Cardiovascular team develops leading solutions for heart recovery, electrophysiology, and stroke. You will join a proud heritage of continually elevating standards of care for stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients. Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech
