• Location: Budapest, Hungary
• Hybrid
• Permanent; Full-time

About the job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress. Join our Clinical Study Unit as Medical Advisor and you’ll provide medical and scientific expertise and guidance to investigators and CSU staff performing clinical trials within a CSU cluster to ensure patient safety and scientific integrity.

We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Main responsibilities:

• Provide medical/scientific value across a continuum of both external and internal stakeholders: e.g., Key external experts and other healthcare professionals within assigned therapy area or assigned 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.
• Provides 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.
• Provides medical and scientific advises to key internal stakeholders developing proposals: this may include, but is not limited to, 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.

About you

• Experience: Strong clinical experience (8+ years) across various therapeutical areas
• Skills and competencies:
  • Strategic agility
  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Scientific and business acumen 
  • Ability to critically appraise scientific data 
  • Team leadership ability
  • Facilitation skills
  • Negotiation skills
  • Entrepreneurial spirit
• Education:
• • Advanced degree (MD, PharmD, PhD in life science or equivalence)
  • Knowledge of ICH, GCP and local regulations
• Languages: Fluency in Hungarian and English, both written and spoken

Why choose us?

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

PursueProgress. Discover Extraordinary.

Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.

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