Vice President, Medical Science & Strategy - Hematology and Oncology

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Certified oncologist with at least 10 years’ experience in pharmaceutical industry leading oncology clinical development of at least one asset from discovery through registration, or having led asset development in each stage of development from discovery through registration.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:

• Able to work in a matrix organization.
• Able to demonstrate the following key high-level high performance behaviors: decisive, customer driven, flexible thinking, smart-risk taking and continuous improvement.
• Leads, influences and motivates staff within and across departments.
• Strong in presenting and communicating complex information clearly.
• Able to deal with sensitive and confidential issues.
• Possesses a “can do” attitude and is capable of implementing and following through on activities / projects.
• Proficient in spoken and written English.
• Flexibility to travel domestically and internationally

First, the incumbent is responsible for ensuring the highest possible quality of input into significant requests for proposals (RFPs), including:

• Development strategy and regulatory issues
• Drug class issues
• Protocol and indication considerations, including safety
• Team education on indication
• Interactions with clients physicians and / or clients pneumology area leaders prior to and during bid defenses
• Identifying business opportunities for PPD clinical research busines

Second, the incumbent is responsible for supporting outstanding input into other areas of PPD clinical research business activities, including:

• Pro-active client engagement: peer-to-peer interactions with therapeutic area leaders and senior directors of companies whose portfolio contains drugs of business interest
• Strategic alliance development & support
• Client governance and advisory boards
• Through PPD’s consulting practice, the incumbent will provide Industry gold standard product development plans, and top-level design of clinical trial protocols that are required in the development plan

Third, the incumbent will be responsible for providing therapeutic and developmental expertise to internal teams, including:

• Indication specific trainings for clinical teams
• Guidance during clinical trials executions
• Investigator Brochure, clinical study report, NDA / MAA clinical packages development, and other regulatory briefing documents authoring and review
• Contribute to design and reporting of feasibility studies
• Liaise with investigators and KOLs
• Mentor and supervise clinical scientist