Global Medical Director Respiratory

"Chasing the miracles of science to improve people's lives", Specialty Care Medical Affairs have a vision to be the leaders in patient and scientific knowledge and insights to improve clinical care. We do this by generating and curating the most critical patient and scientific evidence and by being highly credible partners shaping scientific exchange and engagement. We serve as key strategic partners for commercial, regulatory, R&D, market access and external affairs to develop and launch first in class and best in class therapeutic solutions that address highest unmet needs.

Main responsibilities

• Co-build, develop and lead the execution of the medical strategy for assigned assets in our pipeline across the product value chain, from First in Humans use (M2 stage) to loss of exclusivity.

• Exert internal cross-functional leadership throughout the GPT-GBT continuum to advance the development of assigned assets, assure successful launches, and follow throughout their life cycle.

• Build trust with Global external stakeholders to advance their understanding of the therapeutic area and evolve the treatment landscapes for pipeline assets or marketed products.

• Co-create the IEGP strategy with Medical Evidence Generation Lead and other evidence generation-related functions: Clinical Study Unit (CSU), Real World Evidence (RWE), Health Economics Outcomes Research (HEVA), Medical Operations and Effectiveness (MO&E) and country teams.

• Oversee insight generation plan and input to the assigned assets overall medical strategy.

• Provide strategic input to Scientific Communications teams to plan and execute evidence dissemination and medical education plans.

• Lead the Integrated Patient Journey (IPJ) strategy for assets moving into Ph3 and onwards.

• Oversee the design of key medical programs/initiatives to drive the therapeutic value of our assets and address unmet medical needs (i.e., MAPs, Diagnostic support programs, CSRs, etc)

• Oversee medical tactics and clinical study budgets planning and execution to assure prioritization, alignment with strategy and smart execution.

About you

Experience

• Deep expertise in Respiratory

• Demonstrated industry experience working in strategic roles from medical affairs or clinical development related areas including scientific KOL engagement, evidence generation and scientific communication at Global and Key Market level, preferred.

• Broad drug development experience with robust knowledge of regulatory, market access and reimbursement.

• Demonstrated experience in managing clinical trials in a pharmaceutical environment is strongly desired.

• Demonstrated specialty care product launch experience at a country level, strongly preferred.

• Significant line and matrix management experience, including strong transversal collaboration with key functions such as Research, Clinical Development, Commercial, Health Economics, Value and Access and Product Management functions.

Leadership skills

• Strategic thinking: ability to disrupt status quo with innovation while remaining pragmatic and focused on priorities.

• Result orientation: ability to develop and execute optimal strategy meeting corporate objectives, while creating pragmatic solutions. Comfortable with ambiguity and ability to adapt with agility, take calculated risks and anticipate potential issues.

• People Leadership: ability to engage and leverage everyone's strengths while being highly self-aware. Set high standards and expectations, communicates proactively, collaborative and approachable and ability to provide meaningful feedback, coaching and support.

• Relationships and Influence: Effective stakeholder management, and role model for collaboration and teamwork

• Highest ethical, regulatory and scientific standards

Technical skills

• Education: Medical Degree, Pulmonology specialty preferred

• Languages: Fluent in English.

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