Clinical Development, Executive Medical Director

This is what you will do:

General Description of the Role

The Executive Medical Director (EMD) role is generally assigned to be responsible for overseeing 2 or more programs, providing oversight/guidance/mentoring to the Medical Directors and Clinical Development Scientists on the teams, serving on cross-asset strategic teams (e.g., disease strategy team) and providing input to strategic decisions at the TA Strategy Team and Global Medicine Team meetings.

Generally, the role may include managerial responsibilities over Senior Director, Medical Director Clinical Development directly and may support / oversee other Medical Directors/Clinical Development Scientists that report indirectly to the Executive Medical Director.

The EMD may support development of regulatory strategy, therapeutic area and other functional strategies.

Specifics of the specialized role

The EMD is a specialized role and is specifically designated to provide medical leadership and input to Program Teams during the early to late stage of drug development (i.e., transitioning molecule through IND/CTA and First-in-Human study stage to Proof-of-Concept and End-of-Phase-2 stage and beyond).  The incumbent will serve as one of the medical experts for the study team(s) and may serve as the medical monitor for clinical trials as necessary.

In line with its seniority, the EMD is typically responsible for multiple clinical development programs in a therapeutic area spanning IND to POC/Phase 2/3 under the supervision of a VP Clinical Development TA Head.  In addition, she/he may also have responsibility for discrete, specific business development efforts (e.g., a due diligence on a specific target) and keep close ties with the Discovery and Research organizations.

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