Medical Director

As a Medical Director, you will help lead the development of our Dermatology medical strategy, planning & execution our of medical affairs activities with the patient at the forefront ensuring activities are delivered with integrity and scientific accuracy. 

You are expected to work within a multifunctional Medical Product Team (MPT) with global and US focused programs. We ensure medical affairs alignment with R&D, commercial, access & reimbursement, and patient advocacy colleagues and represent us towards external collaborators such as leading health care professionals, research groups, payers and alliance partners. 

Location: This position will require you to be on-site for 4 days/week at our Sleepy Hollow, NY location and 1 day/week work from home. We are not able to accommodate a fully remote option. If eligible, we can offer relocation benefits.

A typical day may include the following: 
Developing and leads all aspects of implementation of medical strategy and tactics, including scientific communications and publications, annual medical planning, field communications, and collaborations within the healthcare community. 
Applying therapeutic/disease area expertise and business understanding to address current and future medical needs in clinical practice with medically appropriate use of investigational medicines.
Overseeing and provides hands on support in management, generation and dissemination of clinical and non-clinical data and results in high quality publications.
Acting as standing or ad-hoc member for various teams; provides scientific/medical perspectives to the global and US strategic and medical organizations. 
Co-leads the formation, refinement and execution of a robust Phase 3b/4 plan
Supporting the design, conduct, oversight, analysis and reporting of Medical Affairs clinical trials. Ensures timely submission and delivery of high-quality clinical trial documentation, implementation and execution.
Continuing to develop and cultivate long-term strategic partnerships with clinical experts, societies, collaborative groups, advocacy groups, and other external collaborators representing. 
Prioritizing support of investigator-initiated studies and serves as a key member of internal Scientific Review Committees.
Ensuring accuracy of training material for scientific and product information. 
Coordinating medical review and approval of promotional materials. 
Ensuring goals and objectives are met and projects completed on time and within budget.
Is responsible for optimal medical affairs resource allocation across the spectrum of a product’s life cycle.
Oversees development and forecasting of project budgets across assets.
Champions high standards of compliance, ethics and patient safety, putting patients at the center of all actions.
Performs medical monitoring of post-registrational trials and is the signatory of documents related to interpretation of patient level data where necessary.
Interacts internally and externally with senior management and functional heads. 
Represents Medical Affairs on the Strategic Product Team. 
Works in a goal/objective oriented manner within formalized process to plan and implement annual goals in alignment with the corporate annual goals and core business strategy.
Potential to supervise Medical Directors and/or Associate Director. 

This may be for you if you:
•    Want to challenge the standard of patient care
•    Are at ease with an abundance of detail and complexity. Deals with scientific concepts and complexity with confidence.
•    Makes the best decision possible based on a mixture of data analysis, wisdom, experience and judgment.
•    Outstanding work ethic and integrity, including high ethical and scientific standards

To be considered it is essential to have a Medical (MD / MBBS or equivalent) including >7 years of medical affairs or clinical development experience. Solid background and experience in drug development and life-cycle development of immunology related products required. Dermatology experience is required.  Any alliance related setting experience is preferred. 
Additional requirements include: 
•    Demonstrated experience leading technical and business discussions internally and externally and explain scientific/medical concepts to all levels.
•    Ability to cultivate and maintain relationships with leading medical/scientific experts in the relevant fields.
•    Ability to establish trust through the consistent demonstration of scientific expertise and follow-through on requests from key opinion leaders
•    Strong leadership and management skills.

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