Technology Director MedTech Surgery EM
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About the Role
Johnson & Johnson is hiring a Technology Director for MedTech Surgery Emerging Markets in Dubai. This role is a business strategist and product-minded technology leader who partners with regional leadership to shape growth strategies, modernize platforms, and deliver digital and AI capabilities.
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Responsibilities
- Co create regional technology strategy for Surgery in alignment with MedTech business goals
- Develop technology as a competitive advantage, accelerating innovation, simplification, and go to market agility
- Serve as strategic technology partner to regional senior leaders
- Provide accountable technology leadership for end to end BU outcomes
- Operationalize AI/ML and GenAI across commercial, supply chain, service, and R&D adjacent use cases
- Drive disciplined product management approach to ideate, build, and scale high impact solutions
- Own the business technology portfolio for the region, including prioritization, funding, delivery, adoption, and benefits realization
- Lead and develop a high performing team of product, engineering, data, and delivery leaders
- Develop and manage a fit for purpose regional technology budget
- Uphold quality, cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance expectations for MedTech software/services
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (e.g., Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or Business); Master's preferred
- 8+ years in technology leadership with direct experience leading line of business, engineering, data operations, or product teams
- 6+ years of people leadership operating at scale in matrixed environments
- Demonstrated ability to apply technology to solve business problems with exceptional communication and stakeholder partnership
- Experience with business processes (bids & tenders, order to cash, customer engagement) and their interface with ERP, CRM, MES
- Proven track record in product management, agile delivery, and portfolio governance
- 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 ability to influence decisions across a complex, matrixed organization
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Role Overview
- The Technology – Director, MedTech Surgery Emerging Markets (MEA, CEE, South Africa, Turkey, Russia & CIS) is a business strategist and product minded technology leader.
- Partners closely with regional MedTech leadership team to shape growth strategies, modernize platforms, and deliver differentiated digital and AI capabilities.
- Serves as critical point of connection between business strategy and technology execution, developing technology as a competitive advantage.
Key Responsibilities Strategy & Outcomes
- Co create regional technology strategy for Surgery in alignment with MedTech business goals; translate strategy into prioritized multi year product and platform roadmap.
- Develop technology as a competitive advantage—accelerating innovation, simplification, and go to market agility.
- Serve as strategic technology partner to regional senior leaders; jointly identify opportunities.
- Provide accountable technology leadership for end to end BU outcomes.
- Develop compliant technology through strong partnership with Cybersecurity, Regulatory Affairs, Legal Affairs etc.
- Build strong cross region partnership to leverage technology efforts.
Key Responsibilities AI, Data & Digital
- Operationalize AI/ML and GenAI across commercial, supply chain, service, and R&D adjacent use cases.
- Use power of data and analytics to deliver actionable insights; champion interoperable data platforms and privacy by design.
Key Responsibilities Product Management & Delivery
- Drive disciplined product management (HPT) approach to ideate, build, and scale high impact solutions.
- Own business technology portfolio for region—prioritization, funding, delivery, adoption, and benefits realization.
Key Responsibilities Leadership & Talent
- Lead and develop high performing team of product, engineering, data, and delivery leaders.
- Bring entrepreneurial, externally networked mindset; curate outside in innovation and strategic partnerships.
- Drive people leadership responsibilities as leader of people leaders.
Key Responsibilities Financials & Governance
- Develop and manage fit for purpose regional technology budget.
- Uphold quality, cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance expectations for MedTech software/services.
Key Responsibilities Stakeholder & Market Impact
- Ensure technology enables successful product launches and lifecycle management in region.
- Champion customer centric design with providers, payers, and health systems.
- Play critical role in coordinating customers’ engagement in technology aspects.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (e.g., Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or Business); Master’s preferred.
- 8+ years in technology leadership with direct experience leading line of business, engineering, data operations, or product teams.
- 6+ years of people leadership operating at scale in matrixed environments.
- Demonstrated ability to apply technology to solve business problems with exceptional communication and stakeholder partnership.
- Experience with business processes (bids & tenders, order to cash, customer engagement) and their interface with ERP, CRM, MES.
- Proven track record in product management, agile delivery, and portfolio governance.
- 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 ability to influence decisions across complex, matrixed organization.
Preferred Qualifications
- MedTech Surgery domain exposure (e.g., digital surgery and robotics, imaging/computer vision, connected capital equipment).
- 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.
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