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Medical Director
The Role
This individual will be responsible for ensuring the global medical integrity of the cannabinoid development program, and shaping and developing the global medical affairs strategy to support one or more products that are currently in clinical development.
The role can be the best thought of as a ‘hybrid’ one working across R&D and Medical Affairs from both an operational and geographical perspective, with the focus evolving over time.
Key Responsibilities
Developing constructive working relationships with external stakeholders including key opinion leaders, principal investigators, patient advocacy groups, and may include regulatory interactions. Internally, key working relationships will be global marketing, US medical affairs, clinical research, and regulatory affairs
Essential skills:
Broad skill set in Medical Affairs, Clinical development, Drug safety, and regulatory affairs
Strong customer orientation, science-based and marketing minded negotiation skills
Operational excellence, Management skills, planning, prioritization, decision making, objective setting, meeting management and plan execution
Medical Education (MD); Clinical Development and Medical Affairs.
Experience within pharmaceutical or biotech,
Knowledge of Pharmaceutical product development, product lifecycle and commercialisation process with advanced understanding of other functions including Clinical Operations, Commercial, regulatory, safety, medical and market access.
Statistical analysis
Solid understanding of research study design and relevant development guidelines
Medical affairs experience across one or more EU country
Neurology specialist experience
Strong business acumen
Desirable skills:
Epilepsy experience
ABPI code of practice certified
Pharmaceutical affiliate and global experience
Knowledge of pharmaceutical regulations and pharmacoeconomics
Working in cross-functional teams in a matrix environment
Finance/budgeting and resource management experience
Leadership experience
This individual will be responsible for ensuring the global medical integrity of the cannabinoid development program, and shaping and developing the global medical affairs strategy to support one or more GW products that are currently in clinical development and which GW intends to market in the US and ROW. As such the role can perhaps be best thought of as a ‘hybrid’ one working across R&D and Medical Affairs from both an operational and geographical perspective, with the focus evolving over time.
Broad skill set in Medical Affairs, clinical development, Drug safety and regulatory affairs Strong customer orientation, science based and marketing minded, negotiation skills Operational excellence, Management skills, planning, prioritization, decision making, objective setting, meeting management and plan execution Medical Education (MD); clinical development and medical affairs. Experience within pharmaceutical or biotech, Knowledge of Pharmaceutical product development, product lifecycle and commercialisation process with advanced understanding of other functions including Clinical Operations, Commercial, regulatory, safety, medical and market access. Statistical analysis Solid understanding of research study design and relevant development guidelines Medical affairs experience across one or more EU country Neurology specialist experience Strong business acumen
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