Clinical Research Scientist

Description

• Understand and anticipate the scientific information needs of all local/regional customers (payers, patients, health care providers)
• Actively address customer (payer, patient and health care providers) questions in a timely fashion by leading data analyses and new clinical or health outcomes research efforts.
• Play a part in the development of medical strategies to support brand commercialization activities by working closely with the global Medical Affairs and brand teams, Global Patient Outcomes/Real World Evidence and global PRA, clinical management or personnel and other cross-functional management during the development of the local business plan.
• Contribute as a scientific and clinical expert to activities and deliverables of the PRA organization, in particular giving clinical input and insight to develop payer partnership programs and defend the product value.
• Support business-to-business and business-to-government activities as medical expert.
• Actively confer on an ongoing basis the strategic planning for currently marketed brands.
• By offering scientific and creative input, add to the development, review, and approval of promotional materials for the brand team.
• Support training of sales representatives, and other medical representatives.
• Become familiar with market archetypes and potential influence on the medical interventions for the product.
• Take a leadership role in defining the Patient Journey and corresponding Moments of Truth based on their medical knowledge. Become a patient advocate, as well as a medical expert.
• Provide medical insight and training to patient support programs (for example, Diabetes Nurse Educators Service).
• Understand and apply knowledge of customer insights to all customer-related activities.
• Partake in local or national trade associations as appropriate.

Qualifications

• An advanced health/medical/scientific (for example, in Pharmacology, physiology, microbiology) or related graduate degree such as DVM, PharmD, PhD, MSN with advanced clinical specialty (Clinical Nurse Specialist/Nurse Practitioner) and one of following:
• at least 10-15 years of clinical experience OR 10-15 years of pharmaceutical experience (preferably in Medical Affairs)

OR

• Have a BS or Master's degree in health/medical/scientific or related field and 7-10 years of pharmaceutical experience that is directly related to at least one of the following:
• Clinical trial experience: (Experience in areas relevant to drug discovery Drug/clinical development experience (for example, epidemiology, toxicology, pharmacology, regulatory affairs, medical affairs)