Global Medical Excellence Director (Remote)

Global Medical Excellence Director

The Global Medical Excellence Director (GMED) reports to the Sr. Director, Global Medical Excellence, and is an experienced leader / subject matter expert (SME) in General and Specialty Medicine. The GMED is responsible for overseeing and driving Value & Implementation (V&I) General & Specialty Medicine Therapeutic Area (TA) medical excellence initiatives. The role entails developing and implementing strategies to enhance Medical Affairs operations, coordination across multiple functions, ensuring the highest scientific standards, and increasing the effectiveness of Medical Affairs planning. The GMED provides strategic and operational leadership in the achievement of our Medical Affairs global strategies, serving as part of the Global General & Specialty Medicine TA Leadership Team and as a member of several cross-functional strategy teams with a scope that spans external strategic objectives and implementation / creation of company-wide best practices related to internal priorities. This role requires a high degree of enterprise coordination and alignment. The GMED will work in conjunction with a broad array of cross-functional collaborators to ensure that our company has a strong cross-functional strategy across the portfolio for :

External strategic objectives : Focus will include scientific leader (SL) engagement strategy, congress engagement strategy, and additional high-priority objectives.

Internal strategic excellence : In coordination with those in Executive Director Medical Affairs (EDMA), Global Director Medical Affairs (GDMA), and Regional Director Medical Affairs (RDMA) roles and HQ Human Health functions as appropriate, oversee efforts to ensure Medical Affairs excellence (implementing company-wide best practices and coordination tools to guide work of both HQ and field medical colleagues globally in support of General & Specialty Medicine) in medical launch deliverables, cross-functional data gap assessments to inform publication planning, support for GDMA / RDMA in preparing for and actively participating in Group Input Meetings (GIM), and medical education activities, as well as various special projects supporting excellence in cross-functional alignment and partnership.

Responsibilities and Primary Activities

Scientific Leader Engagement Strategy

• Develops and coordinates innovative Value & Implementation Global Medical & Scientific Affairs (V&I GMSA) strategies for engagement with SLs, academic institutions, centers of excellence (CoEs), and medical professional organizations and executes these strategies with HQ team and country V&I GMSA organizations.
• Supports activities that translate to timely and positive interactions with external partners and organizations.
• Oversees cross-functional SL engagement strategy that supports clear lines of contact for SLs.
• Supports portfolio-aligned scientific insight collection from SL interactions to assess knowledge gaps and data gaps that can inform V&I GMSA, HH and Global Clinical Development decision making.
• Coordinates with EDMA and GDMAs to represent our company in medical professional, scientific, policy and advocacy organizations relevant for General & Specialty Medicine.
• Collaborates with Executive Director Scientific Affairs (EDSA) to ensure a well-executed congress strategy and leads planning and execution of SL engagement strategy for major congresses.

Medical Approval Readiness Strategy

Strategic Projects

Operational Excellence

Required Qualifications, Skills & Experience

Minimum :

Preferred :

Required Skills : Administrative Policies, Biopharmaceutical Industry, Business Administration, Business Intelligence (BI), Clinical Development, Decision Making, Interpersonal Relationships, Investigator-Initiated Studies (IIS), Leadership, Management Process, Medical Affairs, Medical Care, Medical Teaching, Medical Writing, Multidisciplinary Collaboration, Operational Excellence, Ophthalmology, Pharmaceutical Development, Pharmaceutical Management, Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs, Pharmacology, Policy Development, Product Portfolio Management

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