Overview
Job Title: Sr Medical Director, Global Medical Affairs
Location: Florham Park, NJ
Type: Contract - 3-6 months
Contractor Work Model: Hybrid
Notes
- Must have Rare Disease or Virology or Covid-19
- Must have Global experience
- Experience strategizing and overseeing development of publications and scientific communications
Detailed Description
- Provide strategic advisory input to internal Medical Affairs leadership on scientific positioning for assigned assets
- Develop draft scientific materials (e.g., narrative outlines, slide content, publication concepts) for internal review and approval
- Offer expert consultation on evidence generation approaches and scientific best practices
- Support internal teams by reviewing and commenting on publication or congress plans (no ownership or approval authority)
- Prepare written recommendations or analyses in response to defined project requests
- Deliver services against clearly defined timelines and outputs, with internal teams retaining all final decisions, approvals, and compliance accountability
- Develop and maintain the global scientific narrative, scientific platform, and long-term positioning for assigned assets
- Provide support and scientific input into evidence generation activities, including Integrated Evidence Plans and lifecycle evidence planning, in partnership with Evidence Generation and Development teams
- Support under supervision external scientific engagement for assigned assets, including KOL strategy, advisory activities, investigator-initiated research, and partnerships with external experts and advocacy groups
- Contributes to building global Medical Affairs capabilities and ways of working, ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory, ethical, and quality standards
- Other duties as assigned
Establish Deliverables & Performance Expectations
- Strong interpersonal, communications and presentation skills. Ability to effectively communicate with employees at all levels in the organization
- Ability to be adaptive to switch therapeutic areas as deemed necessary
- Strategic thinking and innovation mindset
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively and lead through influence in a matrixed environment and across geographies and culture
- Weekly update including KPIs
Minimum Qualifications
- Medical Doctor PhD/PharmD level in biological sciences
- Minimum 12 plus years relevant experience with a solid track record of achievement in a pharmaceutical company in Medical Affairs including experience in launching a new asset
- Experience in Virology including COVID-19, Rare Disease and/or Vaccines is strongly preferred
- Experience strategizing and overseeing development of publications and scientific communications
Travel Requirements
- Purpose of travel (e.g., conferences, client meetings, site visits): customer engagement
- Percentage or frequency of travel: 15%
- Duration of travel: 3-10 days per quarter