Medical Director, Mood & Pipeline – US Medical Affairs

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Medical Affairs Group

Medical Affairs

People Leader

Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

We are searching for the best talent for a Medical Director, Mood & Pipeline – US Medical Affairs located in Titusville, NJ.

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Our Neuroscience team is changing the trajectory of mental health and other brain and nervous-system disorders. You can influence where medicine is going by helping to restore health and hope to the millions of people living with mood, psychiatric and neurological conditions.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

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This role is a key member of the Medical Director, Mood & Pipeline – US Medical Affairs reports to the TA Lead within the broader US Medical Affairs organization. This Medical Director, Mood & Pipeline – US Medical Affairs owns the overarching medical portfolio strategy across the Mood therapeutic area, with primary accountability for new indications, pipeline and emerging assets, portfolio-level data dissemination and congress strategy, and competitive intelligence.

The role works closely with the other Neuroscience Medical Directors and Associate Directors, as well as partners in US and Global Medical Affairs, Real World Value & Evidence (RWV&E), Epidemiology, R&D, Biostatistics, and US and Global Commercial teams, to shape and drive strategy for the Mood portfolio and pipeline, ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory standards.

If you are a strategic thinker with a passion to advance clinical science and improve the lives of patients living with mood disorders, this is your opportunity to make a difference.

• Lead the overarching medical portfolio and pipeline strategy across the Mood therapeutic area, including new-indication and label-expansion strategy for approved and pipeline assets.
• Provide medical leadership for new products and emerging assets in the Mood space, partnering with R&D and Global Medical Affairs from early development through launch.
• Own the portfolio-level data dissemination plan and congress strategy, ensuring a coherent scientific narrative across assets.
• Provide US medical input into Research & Development (R&D), including input into the design of R&D clinical trials, presentations and publications.
• Serve as the mechanism and emerging-science lead for the portfolio, and maintain ongoing competitive and scientific landscape surveillance (competitive intelligence) to inform strategy.
• Contribute as US MAF representative to supported lifecycle and new-indication studies including…