Executive Director - Global Medical Affairs - Breast Franchise

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Purpose:

The Executive Director- Medical provides leadership, supervision, coordination, mentoring, career development, and performance management for all activities and individuals that directly report to them.  In addition to his/her management and administrative responsibilities, the Exec Medical drives strategic planning and, through and close collaboration with the other functional teams within the area, oversees overall medical support activities of the group. The Executive Director - Medical is responsible for assuring that the group's activities are clearly aligned with the strategic priorities of the brand team(s), and global Development team(s), and Therapeutic Area Program Phase, Early Phase I Clinical Pharmacology, and Translational Medicine team(s). In this role, the Exective Director Medical maintains open, collaborative contact and relationships with global Development team(s), and marketing management and staff.

The Executive Director Medical is aware of and ensures that all activities of the medical team are in compliance with current local and international regulations, laws, guidances (e.g. FDA, ICH, and CPMP etc.), Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), company standards, Lilly policies and procedures, company integrity agreements and the Principles of Medical Research and are aligned with the medical vision.

Primary Responsibilities:  This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the job requirements at the time it was prepared.  The job requirements of any position may change over time and may include additional responsibilities not specifically described in the job description.  Consult with your supervision regarding your actual job responsibilities and any related duties that may be required for the position.

The core job responsibilities may include those listed below as deemed appropriate by line management, as well as other duties as assigned.

Launch Support

• Key skills/requirements:

• Needs deep knowledge of molecule and existing development plan
• Will need to be well versed on trial(s) results and conclusions
• Ideally would be partnered with an affiliate headcount sitting within the team who can go back to the region to establish the medical brand team prior to launch - seed the region with experience
• Thought leader engagement and relationships will be essential - shared and coordinated responsibility between Global Product Team (GPT) and regions and functions
• Works cross-functionally and cross geography
• Need strong scientific expertise and people skills
• Must have an understanding of the oncology customer, oncology business, with strong planning and execution skills
• Staffing will need to be complimented with writing, and additional medical support that will have increasing demand over time

• Key responsibilities

• Be a single point of contact for the overall molecule medical affairs within the GBD with the leadership in initially key priority areas:

Scientific Platform/Communications Strategy/SOD 3b/4 studies and their supportive study plans Training and education Internal (molecule, MOA, disease state ) External (Disease State) Global Thought Leader plans - in close collaboration with regions and affiliates

• Leading all global medical affairs pre- peri- and post- launch activities
• Leading medical peers (primarily through regional medical point of contact for the product: EU, USMD, EMMBU, Japan) and cross functional collaboration globally within area of all key medical affairs deliverables for the product
• Be a voice of Global medical affairs team to the regions and at the same time bring the inputs from the affiliates back to the Global Team. Leverage deep product knowledge and educate the network of regional and affiliate peers, so they are ready to support their local launches.
• Drive cross tumor shared learnings.
• Work collaboratively with Global Marketing teams to ensure robust Brand planning.

Business/customer support (pre and post launch)

• Ensures that medical team he/she supports is trained, and compliant with local, global, and company standards with regard to interactions with customers.
• Ensures that there is adequate scientific support for marketing and sales activities.
• Effective business partnering both internally and externally
• Contribute to the development of medical strategies to support brand commercialization activities by working closely with brand teams, Global Patient Outcomes/Real World Experience and global PRA, clinical management or personnel and other cross-functional management during the development of the local business plan.
• Ensures team contributes as scientific and medical experts to activities and deliverables of the PRA organization, in particular giving clinical input and insight to develop payer partnership programs and defend the product value.
• Contributes actively on an ongoing basis to the strategic planning for the brand.
• Take a leadership role in defining the Patient Journey and corresponding Moments of Truth based on his/her medical knowledge. Become a patient advocate, as well as a medical expert.

Career Development and Performance Management of direct reports

• Works closely with direct reports to develop their performance management plans (objectives) and development plans, and documentation of their expertise.
• Keeps all performance and career related documents and plans for direct reports up to date.
• Meets regularly with each direct report to coach, mentor, evaluate progress toward objective fulfillment, evaluate training and development needs, and monitor career development goals.
• Maximizes each individual direct report's career potential, maximizing the value to the organization.
• Accountable for CRP/S/other reports capacity planning and work allocation.
• Responsible for retaining talented people for the long term.
• Development department for talent assessment, performance evaluation, and timely promotion consideration.
• Participates in succession planning for the area.
• Recognizes and appropriately rewards exceptional performance, talent, and/or contribution.
• Ensures that CRP/Ss, other direct reports are adequately qualified and trained in the tasks they are required to perform. Includes accountability and compliance for maintaining a current curriculum training map for self and direct reports.

Scientific and Technical Expertise

• Maintains his/her deep scientific and technical expertise.
• Role model and functional member of the appropriate research, submission, registration and commercialization support teams.
• Visibly active in business unit/ therapeutic area and maintains credibility with internal and external colleagues and the larger organization, as well as career satisfaction.
• Understands and keeps updated with the pre-clinical, clinical pharmacology, and clinical data relevant to the team's molecule.
• Critically reads and evaluates the relevant medical literature; knows the status and data from competitive products; and keep updated with medical and other scientific developments relevant to the team.
   

Scientific data dissemination and exchange

• Review of the critical analysis of data and the dissemination of data, including but not limited to manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and slide sets.
• Oversight of the planning of symposia, advisory board meetings, and other meetings with health care professionals.
• Oversight of team's attendance and scientific congress support (e.g., availability to answer questions at exhibits, provide oral and poster presentations, staff medical booth, meet thought leaders, and participate in customer events).

Regulatory/submission responsibilities

• Provide support for global registrations, labeling and label modifications, and resolution of regulatory issues.
• Ensures escalation of drug safety and device issues to appropriate Global Patient Safety area, region and personnel

Overall Administrative Responsibilities

• Reviews and approves all major business documents requiring director-level approval. These documents include, but are not limited to, research contracts and grants, label changes, and travel expenses
• As a member of the Medical Affairs team, is an active and visible representative of the global brand team
• Participates in various projects, committees, task forces, and other discrete efforts as requested
• Participates in activities which include, but not limited to overall business unit plans and budgets, strategic planning, support of efforts of other components such as staff recruiting, and participation on various business unit and corporate committees.
• Ensures that new process improvement initiatives and best practices are implemented.
• Ensures that team members respect the highest medical ethical standards of Lilly and of the communities where Lilly does business.
• Responsible for annual business planning and/or business unit, and updates regularly.
• Responsible for disseminating information and communications to his/her direct reports and colleagues.
• Serves as liaison with other functions and business units.
• Serves as a role model for and representative of the affiliate/region/area in other organizational venues (e.g., corporate review committees)
• Serves as a representative of the global team to groups, committees, or agencies outside the company or the industry.
• Manages core activities to appropriately limit direct operational activities so as not to conflict with other core responsibilities such as recruiting, staff development, performance management, business planning, etc.

Recruitment

• Participates with medical leadership and business unit leaders, in the human resource needs of the business unit and country.
• Successful recruiting of clinical research physicians (CRPs) or clinical research scientists (CRSs), Medical Liaisons (as applicable) for the area requiring active involvement and a potential for substantial time commitment.

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

• Medical Doctor or Doctor of Osteopathy. Must be board eligible or certified in appropriate specialty/subspecialty or have completed the comparable level of post-medical school clinical training relevant to the country of hiring.  
• U.S. trained physicians must have achieved board eligibility or certification.
• Foreign medical graduates in U.S. based jobs, who are not U.S. board eligible or certified may be hired directly for employment in the U.S. at the discretion of the Chief Medical Officer. 
• Non-U.S. trained physicians must have completed education and training at a medical school that meets the requirements of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME).  For the recognized list of foreign medical schools and the disapproved list, see http://www.in.gov/pla/2799.htm

Additional Preferences:

• Seven to ten years of demonstrated experience in medical affairs with strong administrative skills preferred
• Demonstrated understanding of the local area/region's medical marketplace
• Demonstrated experience in leading and managing groups of professionals with examples of successful leadership and influence
• Demonstrated experience with strong communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills

• Ability to travel away from office
• Fluent in English, verbal and written communication

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