Job Order: 6022
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Associate Medical Director/Medical Director (Gastroenterology)
Location: Illinois
Company Summary:
Our client, a large pharmaceutical company, is dedicated to serving patients by providing innovative products that improve their lives with better healthcare. With a foundation built on a robust, early-stage pipeline, our client is a world class pharmaceutical company.
Description:
OBJECTIVE:
The Associate Medical Director will work under the guidance of the Medical Director or Senior Medical Director to provide near and long term strategic direction as well as development and oversight of the scientific platform. The Associate Medical Director will support the product strategies for assigned compounds within a specific therapeutic area.
ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Implement relevant medical responsibilities by providing scientific insight and development of strategy for assigned compounds by participating in committees to realize the overall vision.
- Committees may include: Functional Planning Teams (FPT's), Commercial Planning Teams (CPT's) Product Strategy Teams (PST's), various development committees, Medical-Regulatory-Legal (MRL) Teams, ISR Committees, etc. and other teams as designated as the compounds evolve and progress in development.
- Interact internally with senior level management; advise and negotiate, as required, to guide the overall activities of the specific compound(s) and therapeutic area.
- Develop and maintain relationships externally through Advisory Boards, Professional Associations, Professional Meetings and Conferences, etc. to achieve scientific objectives.
- Participate in and review pre and post launch regulatory strategies (which may include label (PI), protocols, Supplemental NDA's, etc)
- Either directly or indirectly through supervision, oversee the medical review and sign off of promotional pieces in support of the Medical-Regulatory-Legal committee for products within the specific therapeutic area(s).
- Lead the publications strategy for the assigned compounds by providing scientific and publication planning input.
- Provide input to confidential New Business Development opportunities within the respective therapeutic area of expertise, as required.
- Provide support for departmental initiatives that further our business, and support other departments such as New Product Planning, Government Affairs, SPP, and some related projects, etc.
Qualifications
- Education and Experience Required:
- MD degree with 3 or more years of relevant clinical practice, research, academic and/or pharmaceutical industry experience.
- Experience with clinical research, publication activities, congress presentations, and public speaking.
- Education and Experience Desired:
- Board certification in therapeutic area related to the position.
- Life cycle management experience.
- Knowledge:
- Industry Knowledge - understands pharmaceutical industry regulations governing medical functions within industry activities and medical regulatory process.
- Product Knowledge -understands medical/therapeutic impact of products; understanding of potential product applications.
- Operations - Able to understand operating structure and methods including a thorough knowledge of the foreign-owned parent company.
- Skills:
- Leadership - demonstrable ability to provide ongoing feedback and coaching to employees and to guide other leaders within the department in doing the same.
- Leadership - demonstrable ability to use confidence, decisiveness and a willingness to listen to, influence and engage others in the accomplishment of functional goals.
- Communication - ability to articulately communicate ideas and data both orally and in writing. Communications must be in a highly professional, persuasive and appropriate manner.
- Analytical Skills - ability to analyze a wide variety of scientific data including financial figures and market research data to make professional management decisions.
- Business Process Acumen - ability to apply the knowledge of core business capabilities to help the organization meet its goals and desired outcomes.
- Strategic Approach - ability to predict broad-based changes in business partner environment and translate them into functional strategies to continually meet business partner needs.
- Knowledge Sharing - ability to capture knowledge within the organization; improves solutions, processes, and deliverables through use of information; improves information capital by contributing experience, theories, deliverables and models for others to use.
- Knowledge Management - ability to document resolution to issues and or customer concerns in a manner that ensures reusability of that resolution.
- Pharmaceutical Industry Acumen - ability to develop and implement business solutions based on trends, opportunities, needs, and market direction within the pharmaceutical industry.
LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS:
- Maintain minimum standards of education/certification in individual professional discipline
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