Associated Medical Director: Oncology Early Development

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Job Function:

Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:

Clinical Development & Research – MD

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Beijing, China

Job Description:

Associated Medical Director, China Early Development, Oncology
Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.
Our Oncology team is focused on the elimination of cancer by discovering new pathways and modalities to finding treatments and cures. We lead where medicine is going and need innovators with an unwavering commitment to results.
Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Associated Medical Director - Clinical Research.  They will be a member of a matrix team dedicated to the implementation of clinical research studies that are part of a global compound development program, with a strong focus on solid tumor.
.  Responsibilities include:
•  Acts as an expert within a specific disease area and a high-performing physician-scientist, familiar with clinical and/or translational research involving biomarkers.
•  In collaboration with global and local counterparts, designs and conducts earlier clinical studies, assesses clinical safety and efficacy data, and develops clinical study reports, clinical sections of INDs, Investigator Brochures, etc.
•  Interprets reports, prepares oral and written results of product research, and participates in the discussion of strategies formulated within the disease areas.
•  Collaborates closely with leaders from adjacent functions within Janssen Pharmaceuticals (e.g., discovery, translational, and biomarker research scientists, toxicologists, clinical pharmacologists, drug safety specialists), as well as personnel from Global Clinical Operations, Global Strategic Marketing, and other support functions.
•  Communicates closely with and provides indirect oversight to research groups, drug discovery teams, project clinical teams, and basic laboratory scientists.
•  Establishes strong working relationships and collaborations with external study investigators, key opinion leaders in drug development, and external alliance partners.
•  Serves as the Study Responsible Physician (SRP) for several complex, local studies and is responsible for creating the medical review plan and making medical decisions to execute assigned local study from the initiation to the closing and serves as local delegate of global SRP when support is needed.
•  Manages study start-up, and directs and guides study team in study execution, data cleaning, medical review, database lock, managing health authority responses, including prostate cancer–specific safety, efficacy, and benefit–risk
•  Executes medical-related consultation for internal stakeholders to ensure unbiased data interpretation.
•  May provide determination of pathology diagnosis and act as a signatory to primary and peer review pathology reports.
•  Strategizes and influences a goal-oriented clinical development team.
•  Guides junior colleagues through consultation and mentoring in techniques and processes, and provides functional (matrix) supervision.
•  Integrates Johnson & Johnson‘s Credo and Leadership Imperatives into team goals and decision making.

Qualifications - External
•  An MD is required; Advanced degree (PhD) is a plus. 
•  A minimum of 2 years of oncology clinical research experience in clinical development within pharmaceutical industry or equivalent experience in academic or large regional hospital is required. 
•  Knowledge of Good Clinical Practices and regulatory requirements for the conduct of high quality oncology clinical trials is required. 
•  Experience in protocol development, medical review, oversight of study conduct, running trials, data quality and safety are strongly preferred, including early phase studies and translational endpoints. 
•  Working knowledge of the use of Microsoft suite of software products including Excel and Word is required. 
•  Fluent in written and spoken English with excellent communication skills is required.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Alliance Formation, Clinical Research and Regulations, Clinical Trials, Clinical Trials Operations, Collaboration, Data Management and Informatics, Developing Others, Drug Discovery Development, Global Market, Inclusive Leadership, Industry Analysis, Innovation, Leadership, Market Research, Program Management, Research Ethics, Scientific Evaluation, Scientific Research, Team Management