What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Affairs Leader, Infection and Immunity - Transplant position at Genentech?
The Position
The Company is a business unit of a Global Healthcare corporation and a worldwide leader in diagnostics developing assays for the core lab, the molecular lab, the pathology lab and point of care solutions.
Basic Functions and General Scope:
The Medical Affairs Leader, Infection and Immunity - Transplant will work closely with the global business team to execute the medical plan along with key initiatives and strategies to support the global utilization of related Roche Diagnostic Solutions (RDS) products. As the Medical Affairs Leader for the disease specific area, she/he will contribute to the medical plan. As part of the plan, the Medical Affairs Leader will be responsible for activities related to non-registrational clinical trials. This includes managing the investigator initiated study program. The Medical Affairs Leader will ensure that targeted data sets are presented at key scientific meetings and international congresses and to peer-reviewed journals according to the publication plan. The Medical Affairs Leader will also communicate these activities and develop medical messages along with the business team to support the marketing plan. The Medical Affairs Leader will be responsible for supporting planning of scientific advisory boards and scientific symposia according to the medical plan.
Job Description:
Support in the Infection & Immunity Subchapter through the Infection & Immunity Network to support commercialization of their products:
- Conduct literature reviews and write publication summaries to keep business stakeholders up to date on recent evidence.
- Work with communication lead to curate medical content and evidence to support business activities.
- Work with opinion leaders to schedule speaking engagements and provide feedback on areas of interest
Contribute to the International Business Team (IBT):
- Contribute to the overall annual and ongoing medical planning including input on situational analysis and strategy.
- Provides support of RDS scientific activities for product launches and post-marketing support through scientific material development, speaking events and publications
- Work with regional and local Clinical Development/Medical Affairs (CDMA) representatives
- Support execution of global scientific advisory boards including content management
- Attendance at key scientific congresses to provide scientific support as well as congress feedback for the IBT
- Execution of scientific symposia and educational events at key internal meetings and international scientific congresses, including managing speakers
- Responsible for providing scientific and clinical support for regions and affiliates
- Review publications for scientific and medical content
- Ensure marketing and sales collateral is accurate and supported by medical literature
Responsible for managing non-registrational clinical trials:
- Responsible for the implementation of global study support strategies and initiatives and facilitates open channels of communications across divisions to align these scientific strategies
- Responsible for overseeing, coordinating and reporting of non-registrational clinical trials
- Contributes to managing the Medical Affairs budget
- Responsible for the CDMA investigator initiated study program
- Establishes and supports the development of medical affairs processes which are aligned with the global medical activities across the division
- Establishes and maintains a broad network of Therapeutic Area Experts, Societies and Collaborative Groups
- Works with global key opinion leaders consistent with CDMA strategies and initiatives.
Live Leadership Commitments and Culture of Accountability Beliefs in day-to-day interactions
Minimum Qualifications:
- Education: Advanced degree (i.e. MD, PhD, or Doctorate) required
- Experience: 4 years of related experience
Preferred:
- Clinical experience with the complications associated with opportunistic infections, as part of the donor characterization process and in post-transplant testing (direct patient management experience a plus).
- Understanding of the recent advances in diagnostic testing for patient monitoring and the guidelines for managing transplant infections.
- Experience interpreting and presenting scientific data
- Medical affairs, clinical development, or medical communications agency experience
- Preclinical/clinical research, pharmaceutical project management, or product marketing-related experience is a plus
- External agency and budget management experience is a plus