Senior Medical Lead

At AstraZeneca we turn ideas into life changing medicines. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. We're focused on the potential of science to address the unmet needs of patients around the world. We commit to those areas where we think we can really change the course of medicine and bring big new ideas to life.

In this Senior Medical Lead role you will be responsible for managing global/regional therapeutic or research projects or acting as an expert involved in the design, conduct, monitoring, data interpretation and reporting of individual clinical trials. You will deputize as global clinical lead and lead independantly development activities for an indication or subset of the clinical development plan and ensure projects adhere to Good Clinical Practice and regulatory requirements. You will be responsible for overseeing development of the functional strategy or acting as a renowned expert in own field.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

* Designs or manages the implementation of the Physicians strategy within Clinical Development both regionally and globally
* Uses expertise and knowledge of global issues to develop strategic Physicians objectives for inclusion into AstraZeneca's annual business objectives
* Defines strategies or leads AstraZeneca's response to complex technical issues for specific medical aspects in relation to current projects, new projects and various plans
* Provides expert advice in the area of specialism, influencing the development of statistics to the global business and Global Clinical Development
* Closely follows medical developments within assigned areas and disseminates new information within Clinical Development to transform trends and emerging data into new plans
* Liaises with the internal and external medical community to follow developments within areas of expertise
* Ensures an adequate number of qualified physicians is available for clinical testing to satisfy AstraZeneca's objectives in the clinical testing area
* Maintains a high degree of understanding and awareness on new and emerging medical development
* Contributes to or manages the development of the senior management team in area of expertise
* Follows important developments and trends in scientific literature and develops contacts with opinion leaders
* Leads regulatory communication and preparation of higher level documents

Essential Requirements

* MD with specialist training in either Pulmonary Medicine or Allergy/Immunology or internal medicine with respiratory clinical development experience
* Minimum of 5 and ideally more than 8 years in Industry, with experience in leading clinical trials to support approval(Phase 2-4).
* Experience in leading a clinical program to support an indication, including overall design, clinical development plan and TPP.
* Experience in writing clinical aspects of briefing documents for regulatory interactions and played a critical role in writing sections of a submission dossier.
* Previous experience in working cross functioanlly including leading cross functional study teams
* General understanding of statistics, safety, regulatory requirements.

Desirable

* PhD in scientific discipline
* Extensive general medical knowledge

If you are interested, apply now!

Welcome with your application no later than May 15, 2017.

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