Director - Clinical Design Physician – Cardiometabolic Health

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Organization Overview:
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Purpose:

The Clinical Design function was created to establish study design as a core capability, with tightly integrated cross‑functional experts providing innovative, high quality study designs that transition seamlessly to execution. The purpose of the Director
- Clinical Design Physician – Cardiometabolic Health role is to provide medical leadership within the group. The Physician must have deep understanding of the biopharmaceutical industry, drug development, Diabetes‑associated comorbidities, clinical research, and clinical study design. Through application of industry training, clinical expertise, and relevant experience, the Director
- Clinical Design Physician – Cardiometabolic Health plays a key role in the development of program and trial design options and translation into high quality clinical trial protocols. While Clinical Design’s main focus is on proof of concept and registration clinical studies, the role may work on trials across early and/or late phases of development and commercialization of the product. The Clinical Design Physician may participate in the authoring and/or review process for publications and as needed works with regulatory and other governmental agencies.

They will participate, at times, in activities largely led by Asset Teams, such as outreach medical activities aimed at the external clinical customer community, including thought leaders; the development and implementation of the business unit and global strategy for the product; and various medical activities in support of demand realization.

Primary Responsibilities The primary responsibilities of the Director
- Clinical Design Physician – Cardiometabolic Health are generally related to phase II (proof of concept) to III (registration) studies in patients with commonly occurring cardiometabolic disease states (e.g. obesity, cardiovascular disease, renal and hepatic complications, and women’s health comorbidities). The core job responsibilities typically include those listed below as well as all other duties as assigned.

• Medical Doctor or Doctor of Osteopathy.
• Must be board eligible or certified in appropriate specialty/subspecialty or have completed the comparable level of post‑medical school clinical training relevant to the country of hiring.
• U.S. trained physicians must have achieved board eligibility or certification.
• Foreign medical graduates in U.S. based jobs, who are not U.S. board eligible or certified may be hired directly for employment in the U.S. at the discretion of the Chief Medical Officer.
• Non‑U.S. trained physicians must have completed education and training at a medical school that meets the requirements of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME).
• For the recognized list of foreign medical schools and the disapproved list, see
• Pharmaceutical Industry experience in of at least three years and adequate to provide strong grounding in the drug development progress, clinical trial principles, and scientific decision‑making.
• Experience of a minimum of 3 years in multiple areas relevant to clinical trial design (e.g. statistical/inferential…