Medical Director, gMG-Rare Disease

Career Category

Medical Affairs

Job Description

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.

Medical Director, gMG-Rare Disease

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will will provide medical/scientific strategic and operational expertise into the planning and execution of the medical support activities of UPLIZNA with a focus on generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG). This individual will be responsible for Medical Affairs pre-launch and go-to-market launch planning and execution. They will provide medical input into the long-term vision for the Medical Affairs area to enable health care professionals and patients to receive appropriate medical information. This role requires a high level of collaboration and will require working closely Research and Development, Access, Commercial, Outcomes Research, and Publications. Forging a productive and compliant partnership with the Commercial organization will be essential.

The successful candidate should have prior experience working in a cross functional dynamic environment with a focus on both strategic and tactical execution. Partnering with Senior Medical Affairs Management, this role includes coordinating cross functional Medical Affairs resources to develop conference/pub plans, mapping KOL development, HCP disease state awareness, planning and go-to-market needs across target markets. Serving as the liaison the R&D team and the rest of medical affairs, this role will ensure bidirectional exchange for internal alignment, content, insight generation, and KOL/advocacy engagements.

• Partner with Senior Medical Affairs Management to advance medical and company goals.
• Leverage clinical and therapeutic qualifications and experience to conceive, develop, and implement projects relevant to advancing the goals of the Medical Affairs Organization.
• Provide therapeutic knowledge or expertise on business development projects and manage Medical Affairs transition process after deals completed.
• Communicate and partner with key external therapeutic experts (HCPs) to provide and support high level clinical education.
• Provide support to global sales team and customer base through effective resolution of medical and technical questions which cannot be answered by field service organization.
• Provide a medical perspective to clinical and regulatory organizations, provide subject matter expertise including the utilization of key clinical data and medical trends to effectively differentiate the products and services to marketing teams to develop appropriate collateral materials.
• Develop and support key clinical and medical affairs strategies in conjunction with commercial counterparts. Provide ongoing and interactive technical and medical expertise to executive on these strategies.
• Interact and present to government, regulatory, and other team members to promote enhancement of the corporation’s reputation.
• Demonstrate the required “intellectual horsepower” to be a credible expert and develop strong relationships with key opinion leaders, primary and specialty physicians, key professional societies and organizations.
• Provide expertise in the phase3b/4 development programs and lifecycle management activities for compounds within therapeutic area as well as business development opportunities.
• Develop publication plans applying internal and external data sources using therapeutic knowledge and data analysis abilities.
• Deliver background scientific information and specific scientific project training to relevant internal team members (sales, marketing, business development, field medical team, etc).
• Lead departmental initiatives regarding support systems and processes to facilitate appropriate conduct and documentation of ongoing project work.
• Attend and support external medical meetings and conferences.
• Partner with Compliance to ensure activities, programs and projects are compliant and consistent with company policies.

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a self starter with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 4 years of Medical Affairs and/or Neurology exp