Global Clinical Program Lead

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We are seeking a strategic Global Clinical Program Lead with deep understanding of the Oncology therapeutic area, with specific expertise in lung cancer, to join our Late Oncology team at AstraZeneca. As Global Clinical Program Lead (GCPL), you will be part of a cross-functional team responsible for clinical development strategy and execution of studies with the aim of developing new therapies to benefit patients with cancer.

Main Duties And Responsibilities

In this role, you will develop and support the medical scientific strategies of the Clinical Development Plan (CDP). In addition, you will provide medical input into commercial activities, including scientific components of business cases and value strategies. As the GCPL within the Clinical Development Team, you are responsible for the clinical, scientific, and value content delivery of the CDP to time and quality.

In this role, you have the opportunity to be a leader for the design, delivery and interpretation of clinical studies, ensuring the ethical and scientific integrity of the plans, studies and products in compliance with Good Clinical Practice. The GCPL will ensure internal and external peer review of potential study and program designs, providing strategic input to in-licensing opportunities as part of novel combination strategy. As such, you will present concepts and findings to the Global Product Team (GPT), working closely with cross-functional team leaders to develop new investments and to deliver trial data to appropriate decision points.

As a senior clinician on the clinical development team, you will partner closely with study physicians and medical scientists in the delivery of the CDP, while allocating time to the mentoring and development of less experienced clinical staff.

Essential Requirements:

• Proven track record of successful clinical delivery with demonstrated examples of strategic influence to clinical studies/programs
• Agile responsiveness to scientific data. Credible in scientific and commercial environments
• Life Science-based degree at Masters or above (i.e. M.D., PHD, PharmD, Masters in Life Science-based area)
• Demonstrated leadership qualities with focus on collaborative working skills, trust and openness, irrespective of cultural setting
• Explores positions and alternatives to reach agreements and solutions. Presents clear arguments to gain acceptance of ideas and influences outcomes to meet organizational objectives
• Excellent presentation skills. Can communicate effectively with internal and external collaborators
• Ability to form and maintain an excellent reputation outside of AZ, can interact F2F and TC with regulatory agencies, with high credibility in scientific, clinical and drug development competency.
• Proven cross-functional teamwork and collaboration skills
• Good knowledge of biostatistics, Clinical Development, global regulatory environment and pharmacovigilance and working knowledge of medical affairs and payer environment
• Significant (>7 years) clinical research expertise in relevant therapy area in study design, protocol development, monitoring and implementing clinical trials, interpreting and reporting trial results

Desirable for the role

• An understanding of the interplay between clinical, commercial objectives, drug safety and regulatory requirements
• Experience from different organizations
• Excellent general medical knowledge
• Line management experience
• An understanding of pharmaceutical industry R&D, particularly of major clinical milestones and of the factors which influence Drug development.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and mentor junior physicians/scientists.
• MD or PhD in scientific discipline

Next Steps – Apply today!

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