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Head of Global Clinical Development Immunology

Merck Group
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Sept 2024

About the role

 

Work Your Magic with us!  

 

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.  

 

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

 

Your role: As the Global Head of Clinical Development for Immunology you will be leading a team and work on a pipeline of molecules in early and mid-phases of clinical development or late-stage clinical programs across indications of the relevant Therapeutic Area (rheumatology and dermatology). In this role you provide medical input into the long-term vision and growth strategies for the compounds within the related portfolio of the company and lead the clinical strategy development of assigned program(s). You are the senior medical and scientific expert for the respective disease area and represent clinical development in the development unit leadership team (DU-LT), integrated protocol review committee (iPRC) and other internal committees as appropriate. A strong partnership with the respective Research Unit, Global Patient Safety, Global Medical Affairs, Biostatistics, GEVD, Global Regulatory Affairs and other functions is expected. You will interact internally with and support colleagues from Discovery, Translational Medicine, Business Development, Government Affairs, Marketing, and Commercial and develops and maintains relationships with key external experts through Professional Associations, Professional Meetings and Conferences, Patient Advisory groups in support of common scientific objectives.

 

Who you are

Mandatory qualifications

  • Medical Doctor (MD) with clinical experience in relevant therapeutic area
  • Minimum of 10+ years of experience within the pharmaceutical and/or biotech industry
  • Business savvy executive with mature leadership, decision making, conflict resolution, and influencing skills; recognized entrepreneurial drive
  • Experience in early and late clinical development including pivotal phase 3 programs with proven track records on successful global submissions and NDAs /BLAs
  • Knowledge of ICH-GCP and other applicable regulatory guidelines/practices
  • Experience with publication activities, congress presentations and public speaking
  • Ability to interact externally and internally to support global business strategy
  • Ability to successfully run a complex clinical program independently
  • Fluent in English

 

Preferred qualifications

  • You are board-certified and have experience in one of the areas applicable to the Therapeutic area

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Company

Merck Group

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