(Senior) Disease Area Director
Key contributor to China respiratory disease strategies and therapeutic area strategy, partnering with respiratory leads of China Medical, Commercial and R&D China Strategy, as well as global respiratory disease strategy teams.
Responsible for the development and delivery of respiratory portfolio; manage the respiratory clinical science team to drive/lead products’ clinical development strategies as a core member of the China product team, through effective collaboration with cross-functional study teams and global product teams (GPT); manage China-focused/-led studies or China’s participation in multi-regional studies, by providing expert scientific contribution to the design, conduct, monitoring, data interpretation and reporting of clinical trials.
Responsible for driving AZ scientific leadership in respiratory through (translatonal) research projects and acedamic networking. Participant in relevant governance and leadership review forums. Provide input to medical science, BD, and relevant commercial activities.
Typical Accountabilities
- Uses expertise and knowledge of disease to lead respiratory disease strategies for inclusion into annual TA strategy.
- Responsible for managing the clinical development strategy and plan in respiratory disease area.
- Provides strategic scientific/medical input to the global clinical development strategy as required
- Accountable for successful conduct and delivery of all in-scope clinical studies.
- Co-lead China early development programs and participate in China Early Portfolio Assessment Forum
- Accountable for China overall clinical development plans in respiratory, within the Clinical Project team and GPTs.
- Follows important developments and trends in scientific literature, and educate the team accordingly.
- Leads scientific communication and preparation of higher level documents in the registration process
- Recognized as a scientific and opinion leader of the discipline, represents AstraZeneca and its physicians at external events, develops and maintains contacts with opinion leaders.
People management role:
- Leads, guides, evaluates and develops the team within own area of physicians to ensure that the area achieves its objectives and complies with all relevant regulations and laws.
- Provides coaching and mentoring to team physicians with respect to both technical aspects and career development.
Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Essential
- Master degree in relevant medical discipline or above
- Extensive experience in designing, monitoring and implementing in clinical studies and interpreting trial results
- At least 10 years overall experience in physician area in drug development in pharma industry with the ability to lead cross functional working groups and teams
- Strong therapeutic/disease area expertise
- Proven leadership promoting, motivating and empowering others to accomplish individual, team and organizational objectives
- Commercial understanding
- Thorough understanding of pharmaceutical safety, reporting and surveillance processes
- Strong leadership motivating and empowering others to accomplish individual, team and organizational objectives.
- Strong entrepreneurship, proactively supports functional and R&D China initiatives, takes accountability to closes the loop including the grey areas
- Courageous to do the right thing, makes critical decision and be responsible for it.
Desirable
- PhD in relevant scientific discipline
- Extensive general medical knowledge
- Extensive knowledge of the latest technical and regulatory developments
- Operational expertise in risk management and contingency planning
- Familiarity with the latest research and thinking
- Demonstrated ability to set and manage priorities, resources, performance targets and project initiatives in a global and regional environment
- Ability to influence strategically and persuade tactfully, to obtain desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive, organizational relationships
- Conceptual, analytical and strategic thinking
- Effective problem and conflict resolution skills and proven team focus
- Contributes to science with publications, including on high impact scientific journals (needed by role).
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