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Clinical Research Scientist – Neuroscience

Purpose:

Through the application of scientific and clinical training and expertise, the Clinical Research Scientist (CRS) is an integral member of the medical affairs, development or a business unit brand team for strategic planning in the support of launch and commercialization activities to meet patients' needs and ultimately enhance the customers' experience in interacting with the company.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Business/ customer support (pre and post launch support)
  • Understand and anticipate the scientific information needs of all local/regional customers
  • Contribute to the development of medical strategies to support brand commercialization
  • Contribute as a scientific and clinical expert
  • Support business-to-business and business-to-government activities
  • Contribute actively on an ongoing basis to the strategic planning for currently marketed brands
  • Support training of sales representatives, and other medical representatives
  • Participate in local or national trade associations as appropriate.
    
• Scientific Data Dissemination/Exchange
  • Knowledge of and compliance with local laws and regulations, and global policies and procedures, compliance guidelines with respect to data dissemination and interactions with external health care professionals
  • Understand and actively address the unsolicited scientific information needs of external health care professionals according to guidelines above
  • Support the planning of symposia, advisory board meetings
  • Prepare or review scientific information in response to customer questions or media requests
  • Provide congress support
  • Participate in data analyses
  • Participate in reporting of clinical trial data in Clinical Trial Registry activities.
    
• Clinical Planning
  • Communicate and collaborate with Director-Medical and Business Unit Team Physician/Regional Medical Leader as needed to ensure life cycle plans for drugs in development address customer needs
  • Communicate local/regional research needs and collaborate with other regions and the global Development and Medical Affairs teams
  • Understand and keep updated with the pre-clinical and clinical data relevant to the molecule
  • Represent the clinical needs of the country/region to the business unit medical leadership in the development of clinical strategies, development plans and study protocol design.
    
• Clinical Research/Trial Execution and Support
  • Review and approve local informed consent documents and risk profiles to ensure appropriate communication of risk to study subjects
  • Collaborate with clinical research staff in the design, conduct and reporting of local clinical trials
  • Collaborate with clinical research staff, regional clinical operations staff, statisticians, global patient outcomes, research scientists and selected investigators in the development of protocols and data collection requirements
  • Participate in investigator identification and selection, in conjunction with clinical teams
  • Assist in the planning process and participate in study start-up meetings and other activities to provide the appropriate scientific training and information to investigators and site personnel
  • Serve as resource to clinical research site monitors, investigators and ethical review boards.
    
• General Responsibilities
  • Support the business unit management team, including medical leadership in preparation and administration of the local or business unit medical budget
  • Collaborate proactively and productively with all alliance, business, and vendor partners
  • As applicable, works closely with direct reports on performance management plans (objectives), development plans
  • Actively participate in recruitment, diversity, and retention and hiring efforts

Launch Readiness Planning

• The medical launch leader is responsible for the strategy, planning and execution of those medical activities that will complement registration studies in achieving successful product launches and increasing benefits to patients.
• Collaborate with global brand development teams, Business Unit Team Physician/Regional Medical leader, and local cross-functional team members for launch preparations.
  • Insights, patient segmentation, competitive landscape
  • Local position, brand planning
  • Local commercialization activities
  • Responsible for launch readiness capability
  • Responsible to lead and drive competition of the Medical Affairs launch readiness activities

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

• An advanced health/medical/scientific (for example, in Pharmacology, physiology, microbiology) or related graduate degree such as DVM, PharmD, PhD, MSN with advanced clinical specialty (Clinical Nurse Specialist/Nurse Practitioner) and one of following
  

3-5 years of clinical experience or 3-5 years of pharmaceutical experience (2 of which is in clinical development)

OR

• Have a BS or Masters degree in health/medical/scientific or related field and 7-10 years of pharmaceutical experience that is directly related to at least one of the following
  

Clinical trial experience

Experience in areas relevant to drug discovery

Drug/clinical development experience (for example, epidemiology, toxicology, pharmacology, regulatory affairs, medical affairs)

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