Senior Director US Medical Lead - Yescarta
Senior Director US Medical Lead - Yescarta
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Were here for one reason and one reason only to cure cancer. Every moment is dedicated to developing treatments and every action moves us one step closer to our goal. Weve made incredible scientific breakthroughs and our pioneering personalized CAR Tcell therapies have changed the paradigm. But were not finished yet.
Join Kite as we make even bigger advances in cancer therapies and help shape where our business and medical science goes next.
We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Kite and help create more tomorrows.
Job Description
Everyone at Kite is grounded by one common goal curing cancer. Every single day we seek to establish a direct line between that purpose and our daytoday work.
We are looking for a Senior Director US Medical Lead for Yescarta reporting to the VP and Head US Medical Affairs. You will be responsible for driving the medical strategy ensuring the clinical success and engagement with key internal and external partners of CART therapy products in the US market.
Responsibilities:
Medical Strategy
Develops (with the team) medical strategies aligned with the overall objectives of the cellular therapy global and US strategy. This includes planning and overseeing the medical aspects of CART therapy in the US
Provides strategic direction vision and represents the Med Affairs function on crossfunctional teams
Scientific Leadership
Represents the company to groups of experts including medical professionals at scientific meetings
Develops the US medical affairs plan for specific assets Develops and guides plans including with national cooperative groups to define data gaps and potential requirements/needs
Supports the development of complex clinical data through clinical trials real world evidence generation and investigator studies
Attends most major conferences and helps coordinate medical affairs activities at conferences and may present to internal and external audiences
KOL / OL Engagement
Regularly communicates with the external medical community to remain abreast of issues in the field and to provide medical support and direction to them
Cross Functional Collaboration
Collaborates appropriately with project management biostatistics clinical and commercial teams in multiple areas including annual strategic and tactical planning internal training initiatives publication planning speaker education programs regional consultant meetings advisory board planning and implementation ISR/ERP programs MS resource development and conference preparation
Works closely with the US Vice President on early development of a variety of projects provides independent thought and initiative in the further development of specific projects and ensuing presentations and reports
Responsible for the development and follow through of projects that will provide more extensive background additional data or answers to questions in response to issues that arise relative to commercial scientific or medical information needs
Manages projects to completion anticipating obstacles and difficulties that may arise resolving them in a collaborative manner
Network Team Leadership
This is an important leadership position on the US Medical Affairs leadership team (individual contributor without direct reports) relying on strategic expertise to enable and work with the network amongst Kite professionals including medical advisors clinical scientists and medical writers.
Provides mentorship guidance and support to various members to enable their professional development
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate and 10 years of medical affairs clinical or oncology experience
OR
Masters and 12 years of medical affairs clinical or oncology experience
OR
Bachelors and 14 years of medical affairs clinical or oncology experience
Preferred Qualifications:
MD PhD or PharmD with significant clinical and research experience in the key therapeutic areas
8 years of industry experience including recent experience within Oncology or Cell Therapy
12 years of experience in a scientific setting and a cross collaboration role
Demonstrated strategic and tactical planning and plan implementation skills including organization prioritization and resource management
Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with excellent judgment and ability to work in a team environment
Outstanding interpersonal skills and an ability to influence people who are not direct reports
Excellent presentation skills
Ability to travel to domestic and international conferences which will include occasional weekend travel
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Kite is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid longterm durable response and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune systems ability to recognize and tumors. Kite is based in Santa Monica CA. For more information on Kite please visit . Sign up to follow @KitePharma on Twitter at jobs in the United States:
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Required Experience:
Exec
Employment Type
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