Fellow, Medical Affairs

COMPANY:

At BioCryst, we share a deep commitment to improving the lives of people living with complement-mediated and other rare diseases. For over three decades we’ve been guided by our passion for not settling for “ordinary” in our quest to develop novel medicines. We leverage our expertise in structure-guided drug design to develop first-in-class or best-in-class oral small-molecule and protein therapeutics, led by the efforts of our team of expert scientists in our Discovery Center of Excellence in Birmingham, Alabama. Our global headquarters is in Durham, North Carolina, our European headquarters is in Dublin, Ireland and our employees span the globe across sites in multiple countries. We are proud of our culture of engagement and accountability that rewards people for innovative thinking and achievement of key objectives. For more information, please visit our website at www.biocryst.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

 

JOB SUMMARY:

The Global Medical Affairs fellowship offers the fellow an opportunity to prepare for an industry role by providing practical training, experience, and exposure across a wide variety of functional areas. The program will allow the fellow to develop and strengthen skills within Medical Affairs (including but not limited to Medical Information and Medical Communications), as well as opportunities to support cross-functional projects involving legal, regulatory, compliance, clinical development, marketing, market research, clinical pharmacology, and pharmacovigilance.

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Gain in-depth understanding of medical information operations, industry best practices, and applicable laws, regulations, and guidance documents.
• Staff medical information booths at medical congresses.
• Develop medical information resource documents including standard response letters (SRLs).
• Contribute to Medical Communications initiatives and content generation
• Assist in the execution of strategic publication planning, including providing support for the development of posters, abstracts, oral presentations, and manuscripts.
• Gain an understanding of and support the Investigator-Initiated Studies (IIS) process.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with medical affairs directors, MSLs, market research, marketing, safety, regulatory affairs, and many more.
• Gain medical affairs field experience (MSLs)
• Contribute to tactical execution of the medical affairs strategic plan
• Gain exposure to the clinical development process
• Partner with IPhO to network and engage with leadership and other current industry pharmacists
• Other duties as assigned.

 

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:

• Doctor of Pharmacy degree (PharmD) from an ACPE-accredited college or university by the start of the fellowship
• Authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis (no visa sponsorship available).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Exhibitions professional maturity, confidence, and competence
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time

 

The statements in this position description are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification.  They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. The manager may assign additional responsibilities and assignments from time to time.

BioCryst is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to age, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, Veterans status, disability and/or other protected class characteristics. Additionally, BioCryst is committed to achieving its business objectives in compliance with all federal, state and local law.