Medical Advisor – Clinical Studies Unit

Location: Yakum (Israel)

50% Remote working

Job type: Permanent, Full time

About The Job

Our Team:

Medical Advisors (MDA) provide medical and scientific expertise and guidance to investigators and CSU staff performing clinical trials within a Clinical Study Unit (CSU) to ensure patient safety and scientific integrity of the protocol which ensures the reliability of information provided to agencies at submission. MDAs provide appropriate medical and scientific feedback to Local CSU operations teams as well as global R&D Medical Operations, i.e., Clinical Research Director (CRD), Global Feasibility Lead (GFL), TA early planning leads, global project team, pharmacovigilance, and regulatory affairs. They ensure the medical and scientific collaboration with medical functions in the respective Business Units in the countries of their responsibility and with investigators, trialists, medical experts, and Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) in the country, region, or global level.

Main responsibilities:

• Provide medical/scientific value across a continuum of both external and internal stakeholders: e.g., Key external experts and other healthcare professionals for the Sanofi programs, (potential) investigators, professional societies, and patient organizations
• Review and resolve local medical issues / questions that arise during the entire course of the study and that arise from local regulatory authorities – if necessary, transferring issues to global teams
• Proactively seek and collect the medical voice of the external experts, potential investigators and KOLs to facilitate the conduct of clinical trials. Through appropriate scientific exchange and scientific engagement with external stakeholders, secure advice that informs and assists development teams & early planning teams (TA lead, GFL, PR&R lead) in the development of compounds
• Act as the local medical expert to bring early input into study design and operational aspects, attend PRC meeting when applicable
• Provide timely medical training to local MT, including training to CSU staff on protocols, therapeutic area, disease, products, medical environment, medical and/or scientific training to new hires
• Provide medical and scientific advises to key internal stakeholders developing proposals: e.g. reviewing the protocol for scientific/regulatory soundness and feasibility, providing medical/scientific insights on target site and principal investigator profiles, anticipated patient recruitment, standard of care and competitive landscape
• Exchange information between R&D and other departments within the affiliate and contribute to Medical Department Team meetings related to the therapeutic area to ensure objectives of these meetings are met
• Local scientific knowledge and lobbying allowing capture of country specific information on competitive intelligence and validation of global hypothesis from the Clinical Development Plan or assessment of Extended Synopsis (ES)/protocol contents
• Support local/regional Investigator Meetings regarding medical content and interaction with investigators in collaboration with CRD
• Contribution to protocol optimization and standard of care assessment as a part of Pressure Test to position the study in the ecosystem and drive local strategy
• Patient Network Engagement at local / regional level, being the link to Patient Informed Development & Health Value Translation Team; collaborate with TA Lead providing impactful and relevant local information to support the Global Strategy per TA including information to support diverse study population
  
  

About You

Education:

• Educated to degree level in medical speciality or equivalent
  
  

Experience:

• Clinical research experience at investigational sites, or in pharmaceutical company
• Working knowledge of GCP, clinical trial design and development
• Expertise in one of the following fields: Internal Medicine, Neurology, Immuno-Inflammation, Oncology and onco-hematology, Genetics, Rare Disease including Rare Blood Disorders and Pulmonology
  
  

Knowledge and technical skills:

• Medical leadership in one or more of the therapeutic areas of Sanofi’s involvement with high communicational and teaching skills
• Intermediate Data Analytics (& Digital): uses the systems, to read analyze and generate reports, in daily work
  
  

Languages:

• Hebrew language proficiency
• Fluent English
  
  

Soft Skills:

• Team working ability to guarantee scientific activity and production of documents and reports which are focused on ethics, quality and are compliant with applicable legislation and guidelines
• Result driven orientation to proactively ensure and exceed enrollment objectives
• Management and organizational skills (planning, priority setting, flexibility)
• Strong customer orientation, networking and ability to build effective relationship
• Good interpersonal and listening skills, enterprising spirit focused on involvement of CSU in new Corporate projects
  
  

Inspire Your Journey - What Sanofi Can Offer You

• An international work environment, in which you can develop your talent and realize ideas and innovations within a competent team
• An attractive, market-oriented salary aligned with your qualifications
• Company car
• An individual and well-structured introduction and training of new employees
• Professional career opportunities in dynamically developing working environments
• As a globally successful and constantly growing company, Sanofi provides international career paths as well
  
  

If the description fits your experience and has captured your interest, please apply with English CV so we can get in contact with you!

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