Global Medical Affairs Director

Vision Executives have partnered with a company who are looking for a Global Medical Affairs Director. The candidate will lead the developments of a world-wide Medical Affairs strategy for an assigned disease throughout all stages. The aim is to drive disease awareness, transform clinical outcomes, enhance access to the portfolio and pipelines medicines for patients; maximising their value to patients and the company.

This position is based in France and comes with a competitive salary, bonus, and a company car.

The key responsibilities include:

• Ensuring tactical and strategic medical leadership and guidance to the global clinical development activities coordinating local/area input and contribution into the asset clinical programs through Medical Development Directors
• Act as an internal therapeutic expert developing and maintaining an understanding of key disease states, treatments, therapeutic trends, competitive agents for the indications and development projects within the assigned therapeutic area
• Provide medical leadership where required for interactions with external key stakeholders, ensuring coordination with countries and other internal stakeholder in fundamental issues affecting the therapeutic area
• Perform KOL Mapping and medical expert engagement plans when required
• Support new registrations and life cycle management of the company's therapeutic compounds, ensuring alightnment with commercial strategies and compliance with regulatory guidance
• May represent the company, as required, at key regulatory review forums
• Ensure risk management plans and all official documents are sent to a Health Authority
• Organise and assure scientific business intelligence of the assigned therapeutical area for the company
• Contribute to internal review of new development opportunities through collaboration with Business Development and provide medical expertise and recommendations to support the evaluation of in-licensing candidates where relevant
• Delivers the medical strategy as part of the cross-functional strategy
• Lead the design of the Area’s Medical Affairs Plan including key medical affairs activities and deliverables to generate and disseminate  compelling evidence of the product supporting overall product scientific and business strategy
• Drives the pre-launch medical strategy & execution for new assets
• Budget proposal and organisation responsability
• Identify, negotiate and contract with external partners needed
• Team leadership defining individual and collective objectives
• Taking managements acts as recruitments, sanctions, integration, formation, performance metrics, salaries, conflict resolution and professional development

Suitable candidates will have a science degree and atleast 5 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry. They will promote and implement required changes, reach and exeed expected permformance levels and motivate their team.

To apply for this position please email us, call us, or submit your CV via our contact page quoting the vacancy reference: R2611GMAD