Clinical Medical Manager lead

The Position

You will lead the Clinical Medical Managers (CMM) team by providing guidance on priorities and oversight of all activities. You will ensure the team has the right capabilities, skills, and knowledge to perform their tasks. You will identify and map Key Opinion Leaders, investigators and research centres, and collaborate with local and HQ clinical operations teams to perform feasibility and take part in the allocation process. You will provide operational input from country insights to early protocol development, identify and engage with relevant patient advocacy groups while investigating areas of mutual interest and potential collaboration with investigators. Through your team of direct reports, you will facilitate and support the execution of clinical trials related to New Therapy Areas (including CKD, CVD, Liver Disease, and inflammation) by providing medical/scientific expertise.
 
Your main accountabilities:

• Discuss relevant early development data with medical experts, optimizing the feasibility process for clinical trial conduct.
• Identify and regularly engage with experts in relevant Therapy Areas to collect early scientific insights and drive the process of mapping of clinical care pathways, working closely with the Medical Affairs team. 
• Deliver Medical guidance - ensure training of CMMs and other cross functional teams across the affiliate on the scientific background of the trials while providing leadership relevant scientific communities, conducting advisory boards, scientific meetings and publications.
• Contribute to delivering successful clinical trials execution in collaboration with the clinical operations team by driving scientific discussions, attendance at investigator meetings, and engaging key investigators to communicate trial results.
• Conduct scientific activities aimed at patient retention and recruitment and ensure continuous dialogue with investigators and site staff to support smooth study conduct and insights collection throughout the duration of the study.

 
Qualifications

The position requires extensive scientific exchange and proactive communications skills. You will travel internationally and nationally to internal meetings, congresses & company events to facilitate collaboration with local stakeholders. Independence, innovation, and initiative should be demonstrated when prioritising planning and performing tasks. The CMM Lead should always perform tasks in compliance with Novo Nordisk Way.

You should also have:

• An advanced degree: MD or PhD in healthcare or life sciences  
• Minimum 4 years of experience from Medical Affairs function
• Minimum 2 years’ experience as a people manager
• Minimum 4 years of clinical experience is advantage
• Pharmaceutical industry experience
• Solid experience with human healthcare research and understanding of pharmaceutical drug development.
• Fluent in English and Hebrew

About The Department

The Clinical Medical & Regulatory (CMR) department is poised for growth as it embarks on the establishment of an independent Clinical Development Centre as well as expanding its Clinical medical collaboration roles. This expansion is focusing on the entrance to new therapy areas for Novo Nordisk, including cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, liver conditions and others. With a strong commitment to advance healthcare, the CMR department is at the forefront of pioneering innovative solutions for these challenging medical conditions.
 
Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.
 
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