Senior Director Clinical Affairs, Surgery, Wound Closure & Healing (MedTech)

Location: Raritan, New Jersey, United States; hybrid or on-site depending on business needs, with 20–30% domestic and international travel.

Base pay: $196,000–$342,700 per year, plus annual performance bonus and long-term incentive eligibility.

Company

Johnson & Johnson MedTech develops surgical technologies and healthcare solutions, including products for wound closure and healing.

What you will do

• Co-define and execute the evidence-generation strategy for the Wound Closure & Healing portfolio.
• Lead clinical trials, registries, observational studies, and real-world evidence programs from design through data interpretation.
• Direct a clinical research and outcomes team, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and capability building.
• Advise business and cross-functional leaders on evidence priorities, regulatory positioning, market access, commercial strategy, and clinician adoption.
• Manage relationships with investigators, key opinion leaders, CROs, academic collaborators, and scientific partners.
• Oversee budgets, resources, vendors, timelines, publications, and scientific communications.

Requirements

• Clinical or scientific bachelor’s degree.
• At least 8 years of progressive experience in clinical research, outcomes research, or evidence generation in medtech, medical devices, or related industries, including 5 years in leadership.
• Experience designing and delivering clinical trials, registries, and real-world evidence programs.
• Strong knowledge of outcomes research, health economics, payer and HTA evidence requirements, and medical-device clinical evaluation.
• Knowledge of FDA, EU MDR, GCP, regulatory, ethical, and clinical evaluation/reporting requirements.
• Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder influence, and people leadership skills.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree such as MD, DO, PhD, or PharmD.
• Surgical experience or experience with wound closure, surgical hemostasis, wound-healing biologics, or adjacent surgical devices.
• Peer-reviewed publications and presentations at surgical or wound-care congresses.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive work environment guided by the company’s Credo.
• Annual performance bonus, pension, savings plan, and 401(k) participation.
• Long-term incentive program eligibility.
• Vacation, sick time, holidays, parental leave, caregiver leave, bereavement leave, volunteer leave, and other paid time-off benefits.
• International scope with collaboration across clinical, regulatory, quality, medical affairs, market access, commercial, and R&D functions.