Medical Director, Rare Disease
Application deadline:
Location: Madison 07940, New Jersey, United States
Contract type: Permanent
Job ID: 3674
Role Description
Your Role
The Medical Director, Rare Disease, will be responsible for the development of medical strategy and tactics for generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) and any other future indications. The individual will provide medical/scientific strategic and operational expertise for core scientific affairs activities such as scientific data generation and communication, competitive landscape analysis, utili-zation of insights, establishing Key Opinion Leader map and drive interactions. This incumbent will provide leadership, oversight, and support as a cross-functional North American medical team lead, will collaborate with commercial team to provide medical input into commercial strategies, and will collaborate with Global medical teams.
Your Responsibilities
• Acquires, maintains and expands knowledge and expertise in relevant medical-scientific areas in dermatology
• Develops North American (NA) Medical Strategy and tactics for compounds in development for generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) and future opportunities and indications.
• Provides medical/scientific strategic and operational expertise for core scientific affairs activities such as scientific data generation and communication, competitive landscape analysis, utilization of insights, establishing Key Opinion Leader map and drive interac-tions
• Provides medical input to strategic plans such as lifecycle plans, strategic launch plans, brand plans and global business plans
• Participates in publication planning throughout the product lifecycle (including manuscripts, congress abstracts, symposium presentations and poster presentations) in collaboration with both local and global teams
• Expert reviewer of all documents requiring medical input including but not limited to proposals, protocols, manuscripts, posters and standard response letters
• Contributes, through medical expertise, to any appropriate exter-nal action with regulatory, pharmacovigilance, health economics, etc.
• Initiates, organizes and facilitates medical advisory boards
• Presents medical data at both internal and external meetings and training courses
• Training of internal and external stakeholders
• Acquires and informs organization on competitive intelligence
• Sits on the Legal Medical Review Committee and is responsible for the medical review of all Spevigo materials
• Provides expertise to support LEO Pharma’s patient-centric ap-proach, contributes to identification and investigation of unmet patients’ needs
• Identifies NA medical marketing needs, gaps and assists in es-tablishing or strengthening scientific affairs activities
• Ensures medical communication and interaction with external partners is appropriate
• Accountable for planning of scientific affairs activities and man-age assigned budget
Your Qualifications
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience, within the pharmaceutical industry and/or in clinical research
• Medical degree required, experience in dermatology preferred
• Strong pharmaceutical business/commercial understanding
• Track record of collaboration with commercial, legal, regulatory and medical communications
• Excellent understanding of the clinical development programs including compliance and regulatory requirements
• Leadership skills in a cross-functional global team environment
• Strong goal orientation, an ability to make decisions and a history of meeting deadlines and objectives
• Experience with facilitating medical advisory boards
• Experience in managing Key Opinion Leader relationships
• Experience with publication planning
• Skilled in developing, reviewing, understanding, and presenting clinical and scientific information to multiple audiences
• Excellent verbal, written communication skills and interpersonal skills.
The base salary range for this position is $223,000 - $260,000 per year. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the LEO Pharma range for this position. Salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. In addition, some positions may include eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and / or individual performance.
Beyond the skin
Join LEO Pharma, a global leader in medical dermatology, as we go beyond the skin to make a lasting impact. Our innovative approach sets us apart. We are dedicated to leaving a legacy that positively impacts patients, colleagues, and our planet.
LEO Pharma Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. At LEO Pharma, we believe that our different perspectives, backgrounds, and attitudes are what enable us to make the best decisions, foster an inclusive culture, and meet the needs of the market we operate in. Therefore, we encourage you to apply for the position if you are excited about the role – even if you don’t meet every single requirement listed, you might be just the pioneer we are looking for. With this in mind, applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. We believe in flexibility in all aspects - also when it comes to supporting our employees' diverse needs, hence, we offer hybrid work opportunities whenever possible.
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