Description
Responsibilities:- Designs or manages the implementation of the Physicians strategy within Clinical Development both regionally and globally
- Uses expertise and knowledge of global issues to develop strategic Physicians objectives for inclusion into the company's annual business objective
- Contributes to or manages the development of the senior management team in area of expertise
- Provides expert advice in the area of specialism, influencing the development of statistics to the global business and Global Clinical Development
- Closely follows medical developments within assigned areas and disseminates new information within Clinical Development to transform trends and emerging data into new plans
- Defines strategies or leads the company's response to complex technical issues for specific medical aspects in relation to current projects, new projects and various plans
- Liaises with the internal and external medical community to follow developments within areas of expertise
- Ensures an adequate number of qualified physicians is available for clinical testing to satisfy company's objectives in the clinical testing area
- Maintains a high degree of understanding and awareness on new and emerging medical development
- Follows important developments and trends in scientific literature and develops contacts with opinion leaders
- Leads regulatory communication and preparation of higher level documents
Minimum requirements:
- Bacherlor's degree in medicine and experience as a physician or academic
- Extensive experience in designing, monitoring and implementing clinical trials and interpreting trial results
- Significant experience in advanced research and development
- Therapeutic area expertise and commercial understanding
- Thorough understanding of pharmaceutical safety, reporting and surveillance processes
- PhD in scientific discipline (Desirable)
- Extensive general medical knowledge
- Senior Physician Team and Development function
- Development leaders
- Pharmacology
- Pharmaceutical Development
- Regulatory Department
- Quality
- External service providers and regulatory bodies