Director, WW Medical Affairs, Cell Therapy

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The Director, WW Medical Cell Therapy, Lymphoma will report to the Executive Director, WW Medical Lymphoma Cell Therapy.  The role is headquarters based and will provide scientific leadership and support for compounds in late stage of clinical development, and approved products within a therapeutic area. This individual will support the design and implementation of  strategic disease area medical plans. They will assist in the evaluation and support of collaborative and investigator-initiated trials, serving as the Global Medical Affairs delegate and voting member at the relevant foums.

The position holder will represent Global Medical Affairs as needed on behalf of the Global Cell Therapy Lead, serving as a therapeutic area expert in scientific, strategic and tactical discussions and presentations with internal colleagues, as well as with external experts and investigators. Represents WW Medical Cell Therapy in asset GPT as needed, provides direct World-Wide Brand Team (WWBT) and launch country support on strategic planning, in-house Medical and RML/MSL training, data dissemination, and creation of Integrated Evidence Plans (IEP) in conjunction with Cell Therapy Medical leadership. The position holder is responsible for the content and execution of Global Medical Affairs advisory boards and investigator meetings.

Position Responsibilities

1.     Leadership responsibilities:  Strategic and Tactical

• Serve as Medical and Scientific Lead for the Global Lymphoma Cellular Therapy team and provide support to the Cellular Therapy Project Teams as needed

• Collaborate with and provide Medical content expertise in support of Global and Local Market Access and Commercial initiatives

• Collaborate with all Regional and Local Disease representatives and functional teams in Medical Affairs on Disease strategy and tactical execution

• Support/lead in the execution of Global advisory boards and steering committee meetings, but also be involved in assisting the regions on critical globally informative advisory boards

• Perform, as needed, research and analytics and provide recommendations to support quality medical decisions regarding clinical research, consultancy, and internal planning

• Conduct real-world evidence research and provide directed analytics and valuable backgrounders, as well as provide recommendations and serve as Medical Leadership representative on Investigator Initiated Trials (ISRs) decisions. Serve as Global Medical Affairs delegate and provide review, recommendations, and vote on new concepts for ISR and COOP trials

• As needed, serve as Medical lead on GPT, WWBT strategy in preparation for professional meetings, congresses, and local symposia

2.     Deliverable responsibilities:  Strategic and Tactical

• Partner with Scientific Communications on developing publication strategy, gap analysis, key messages in coordination with the Regions

• Lead the development of hypotheses and primary research in the generation of congress abstracts and publications to address unanswered questions and support Global and Local product launches

• Serve as primary reviewer and final approver for Cellular Therapy Lymphoma focused abstracts, presentations, and publications, as needed

• Identify educational opportunities and lead content generation and presentations to Global, Regional, and Local teams

• Provide budget oversight and guidance for execution of new statements of work

• High quality scientific/clinical content generation, input and review of (as needed):