Medical Advisor

Medical Advisor

Key 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.

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.

Liaise with local Medical Leads within Sanofi GBUs to manage investigators and compounds.

Support local/regional Investigator Meetings regarding medical content and interaction with investigators in collaboration with CRD.

Ensure accuracy of translation of medical terms related to study documents when translated into the local language, including ICF, patient materials, wherever appropriate.

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.

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