Summary
About the Role
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide clinical development and indication expertise specific to the country/cluster.
- Validate study designs, contribute to the start-up phase, provide robust training to clinical operations teams and support recruitment and trial awareness.
- Offer clinical/medical expertise for IRB/EC interactions and informed consent forms.
- Interact with external experts, regulatory authorities, and patient advocacy groups.
- Leverage innovation in clinical trial planning and recruitment strategies.
- Support internal stakeholders and decision boards regarding clinical trials.
- Review and resolve trial-related scientific/clinical/medical issues and support protocol deviations.
Essential Requirements:
- Scientific degree M.D., Ph.D., or Pharm.D. (M.D. highly desirable) - Subspecialty training desirable
- 3 years of clinical development experience in the pharmaceutical industry or clinical practice.
- Ability to manage a study from the scientific/medical/clinical perspective, and a demonstrated capability to problem solve and mediate complex scientific/clinical/medical/operational issues.
- Ability to lead effectively by communicating well, motivating a cross-functional team, and handling and delegating responsibilities.
- Agility to move quickly across different therapeutic areas and indications.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills and comfort with complexity.
- Ability to prepare and deliver high quality presentations.
Desirable Requirements:
- Sound understanding of the overall clinical development process, and ICH/GCP principles.
- Speaks and writes English, French desirable
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