Hiring company: Gilead
Kite Country Medical Lead
We have an exciting opportunity within our Medical Affairs team as Kite Country Medical Lead.
This is a broad and challenging role. The role reports to Kite Medical Head of Intercontinental region.
The role has exposure to Kite Senior Leadership across functions, locally and
Internationally and will sit on the Local Leadership Team.
Specific Job Requirements:
Provides local medical expert input into global product development for Kite.
Represents the company to groups of experts, medical professional groups,
societies, regulatory groups at international scientific meetings and national
scientific meetings.
Develops and leads plans with national cooperative groups to define what are
the gaps and potential specific national requirements/needs. Supports the
development of local complex clinical data through clinical trials and
investigator studies. Supports the development of Health Economic Outcome
Research programs for the country.
Contributes to the development of the Market access Strategy in coordination
with the Market Access, Regulatory affairs, Business Unit Director;
deliver the medical part of the plan
Prepares for potential near future for Line management of Medical project
Manager and Field Medical Scientific liaisons: hire a team in coordination with
HR, local stakeholders and international.
Provides Medical strategic direction and vision and works as a team with the
Business Unit Director and Market Access Director.
Be part of the intercontinental medical affairs oncology team and contribute to the overall intercontinental strategy and efforts.
Regular communication with external medical community to remain abreast of issues in the field and to provide medical support and direction to them.
Collaborates with project management, medical communications and commercial teams in multiple areas including publication planning, speaker education programs, regional consultant meetings, manuscript review and conference preparation.
Attends most major conferences and helps coordinate medical affairs activities at conferences and may present to external audience
Responsible for the development and execution of projects that will provide
more extensive background, additional data or answers to questions in response to issues that arise relative to commercial, scientific or data needs.
Performs medical review at Promotional Review Committees.
Manages projects to completion, anticipating obstacles and difficulties that
may arise, resolving them in a collaborative manner.
Knowledge, Experience and Skills:
The ideal candidate will be an MD, preferably with board certification in hematology or oncology, with significant clinical and research experience in the key therapeutic areas.
Industry experience is essential, ideally including recent experience of a successful launch within oncology or hematology.
Must have demonstrated organizational skills to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Must demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills along with excellent judgment and ability to work in a team environment. Strong presentation skills are required.
Prior supervisory/leadership experience is a must.
Ability to travel to domestic and international conferences which will include occasional weekend travel is required.
Kite is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid, long-term durable response and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune system's ability to recognize and kill tumors. Kite is based in Santa Monica, CA. For more information on Kite, please visit www.kitepharma.com. Sign up to follow @KitePharma on Twitter at www.twitter.com/kitepharma.
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