Senior Medical Director, Product Development, Rheumatology (South San Francisco)

Senior Medical Director

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The Opportunity

Roche's Product Development organization is structured by therapeutic area and is responsible for developing and executing the late development clinical strategies and plans that deliver medically-differentiated therapies that provide meaningful improvement to patients. In the Nephrology / Rheumatology area, Roche is committed to exploring therapies for autoimmune diseases with high unmet need, including maximizing our pipeline assets targeting B-cells.

The Senior Medical Director leads development of the Clinical Development (CD) strategy and is responsible for developing the CD plan and ensuring effective and efficient execution for assigned molecule(s) / indication(s). The Senior Medical Director is also expected to contribute CD expertise to therapeutic area strategies and plans.

Senior Medical Directors are expected to act as CD leaders, demonstrate heightened mastery of the core Medical Director role, perform their responsibilities independently, and effectively lead multiple projects. Senior Medical Directors may be assigned CD strategy development and implementation oversight for an entire therapeutic area.

• You will lead, delegate and be responsible for the development and implementation of the CD strategy and / or plan for assigned molecule(s) / indication(s); you will represent CD for the assigned molecule(s) / indication(s) to other internal Roche groups; you will be responsible for ensuring cross-functional integration, coordination and alignment to enable effective and efficient CD plan execution.
• You have demonstrated late stage clinical development expertise with relevant experience in Rheumatology, ideally with specific experience in late phase studies in systemic lupus erythematosus and / or lupus nephritis.
• You have demonstrated experience as a cross functional project team lead
• You will collaborate with a variety of internal and external partners and stakeholders, such as clinical investigators, clinicians, scientists and key opinion leaders (KOLs), as well as multidisciplinary internal groups, including other groups in PD, research, business development, commercial operations, legal, etc.
• You will participate in meetings, reviews, discussions and other interactions regarding early development studies to provide clinical science input and guidance; includes reviewing and providing late stage input into Phase I and II protocols
• You will lead or oversee others in development of briefing packages, development of responses to health authority questions, and health authority interactions by providing clinical science information and input.
• You will consult to pharma partnering on relevant acquisitions, joint ventures or other strategic partnerships, as these potentially relate to the assigned therapeutic / disease area(s).

This position is based on-site in South San Francisco, CA, or Boston, MA. Relocation benefits are not being offered for this position.

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The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of South San Francisco, CA is $253,500 - $471,000. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.

This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

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