Teva Director Global Medical Affairs Neuropsychiatry 

United Kingdom, England 

505899152

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced medical affairs leader to shape the future of psychiatry at a global level. As Director of Global Medical Affairs, Neuropsychiatry, you will play a pivotal role in driving the medical and scientific strategy for psychiatry, working in close partnership with the Therapeutic Area (TA) lead and the wider GMAteam. You’ll lead the development and execution of strategic plans to support the successful launch and lifecycle management of key assets, while building strong collaborations with external experts, scientific bodies, and patient representatives. This role offers the chance to provide influential medical guidance across early and late-stage development, as well as commercialised products, ensuring robust scientific leadership across clinical research, medical launch preparation, and health economics strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Medical and scientific leadership and support to current and future commercialized medicines, and issues management for current medicines within psychiatry
• Responsible for the development and execution of the Global Medical Affairs plan for the relevant asset(s). These will include, amongst others, responsibilities such as Phase IV trial activities (such as protocol development, study execution, medical governance and interpretation of results); development of Key Opinion Leader (External Experts) strategy and plan; scientific congress activities (such as medical symposium, presentation of abstracts and or posters); input to publication strategy and review of Investigator Sponsored Studies/Collaborative Research/GHEVO studies.
• In partnership with the TA lead and team provides coordination and execution of overall medical strategy for Teva’s assets in psychiatry in close collaboration with Regional Medical Affairs teams, from initiation of regional pre-launch activities to several years post-launch (as relevant)
• Again, alongside the TA lead contributes to and implements the world-wide medical psychiatry strategy
• Interfaces effectively with other Global Medical Affairs functions such as Scientific Communications and Global Health Economics, Value and Outcomes, and other departments, including Commercial, Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs and Pharmacovigilance
• Provides counsel to clinical development with input on early and late-stage development plans, target product profile, and lifecycle management
• Collaborates with Global Scientific Communications in support of knowledge generation for the psychiatry franchise, including strategy development and review of manuscripts, abstracts and posters as part of the publication team
• Develops and maintains professional relationships with external experts and professional associations including therapeutic guideline development groups. Responsible for the External Expert interface for the respective psychiatry medicines

Do you have...

• Preferably, a life sciences degree / MD / MPharm, PhD and at least five years pharmaceutical industry experience.
• Experience in designing and executing PIV studies- this would be beneficial
• Pharmaceutical industry experience in global medical affairs, ideally in psychiatry or neuroscience.
• Experience in successfully developing strategy and executing medical plans, and in building professional external expert networks.
• A broad knowledge of drug development, clinical trial design, regulatory requirements, business development and life cycle management.

Are you...

• Able to build strong work relationships with all stakeholders involved
• Able to work in a changing and flexible environment
• Experienced and adept at working collaboratively across different cross-functional teams such as commercial, R&D, health outcomes, regulatory, pharmacovigilance and compliance.
• Bringing a leadership skillset and comfort working within a matrix set-up
• Able to translate complex scientific content into what this means in medical practice for the HCP and patient
• Driven by the pride in your work
• A strategic thinker

If so, we'd value hearing from you...

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