Medical Director

Responsibilities

• Develop, drive and deliver on overarching innovative integrated evidence strategies, in collaboration with internal partners, to ensure that the value of our medicines is fully supported by evidence.
• Act as internal change agent on matters pertaining to the overall creation and implementation of Innovative Medicines (IM) portfolio RWE / Integrated Evidence strategies and tactics.
• Ask the right scientific questions, understand the evidence needs to optimize approval, access and clinical adoption of our medicines, and ideate and make recommendations on fit-for-purpose data and integrated evidence solutions.
• Deliver high quality, rigorous, and fit-for-purpose evidence solutions according to Novartis priorities and opportunities to impact patients and society.
• Closely collaborate with internal and external partners ensuring scientific rigor in evidence strategy, study design and analyses.
• Contribute to partnerships with Medical Societies, Academic Institutes, payer bodies, other data owners to build meaningful RWD research collaborations.
• Contribute to cross-functional, enterprise-wide and external evidence initiatives as well as to new and innovative data and analytic platforms, methodological approach-es and technologies, which enable broader and more effective use of integrated evidence to reimagine medicine.
• Work closely with key countries to develop timely, meaningful and robust evidence to support product value demonstration aligned with local needs (patient access, re-imbursement, medical education, and patient advocacy).
  
  

Requirements

• 5+ years industry and/or relevant experience acquired at biopharmaceutical companies, academia, healthcare provider / Payer / HTA, or relevant consultancy companies
• Strong understanding and experience of RWD/RWE and/or related disciplines to generate scientifically rigorous and impactful evidence, both from prospective and retrospective studies, including secondary data sources.
• Good understanding of drug development with proven ability to identify and deliver key evidence from retrospective and prospective studies to optimize regulatory approval, market access and clinical adoption.
• Cross-functional experience working with Clinical Development, Commercial, Market Access, HEOR, Medical, Safety, and Regulatory colleagues.