Serve as the primary escalation point for trade-off decisions and issue resolution, demonstrating sound judgment, transparency, and ownership while driving timely cross-functional reviews, required approvals, and effective change control to assess downstream impacts to verification/validation, regulatory submissions, manufacturing, labeling, training, and post-market commitments. The CTL operates as a strategic partner to Marketing, R&D, Clinical, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, and Commercial teams, and serves as the primary champion for delivery excellence, governance rigor, cross‑functional decision‑making, and compliant execution of product development activities within the applicable quality management system.