Our client is a pharmaceutical company. They have asked us to assist them in a search for a Senior Medical Director, Oncology.  

Major tasks and responsibilities include:

• Handles the day-to-day clinical trial activities and ensures that all studies are conducted with the highest level of GCRP, ethical, and safety standards.
• Serves as the primary point-of-contact for interactions with investigators and CRO medical monitors as it relates to the conduct of clinical studies for which they have primary responsibility.

• Functions as the medical representative on integrated project teams.
• Reviews individual adverse experience reports for accuracy and clinical importance and characterizes their relationship to the study drug, severity, seriousness, and expectedness.
• Works closely with other functions to provide accurate information to the FDA or other regulatory agencies.
• Reviews clinical safety data including adverse events, laboratory values and concomitant medications to establish the presence or absence of abnormal trends and follow up as appropriate.
• Leads or supports the preparation of clinical protocols, integrated clinical and statistical summary reports, clinical sections of regulatory submissions, clinical study reports and peer-review publications for national and international meetings and/or journals.
• Presents findings internally and externally, acting as a spokesperson relating to the trial, compound, or indication.
• Provides clinical input to support engagements with external experts, advisors, and business development teams.

 
We seek candidates with the following qualifications:

• Requires a Medical degree with board certification (or board equivalent) in medical oncology.
• Must have at least five years of drug development industry experience with at least three years in oncology-related clinical research. Early phase development and immuno-oncology experience is preferred.
• Requires the ability to build key relationships easily across all levels of the company, ability to influence without conflict, lead change, and manage resistance to change.
• Must be capable of highly independent work as well as being a team player.

If interested, please apply directly to this job posting. No calls please. Include your daytime phone number and we will contact you confidentially or reply to your email.

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