Medical Director - Ophthalmology

When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve. At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.

Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.

Parexel is in the business of improving the world’s health. We do this by providing a suite of biopharmaceutical services that help clients across the globe transform scientific discoveries into new treatments. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, our therapeutic, technical, and functional ability is underpinned by a deep conviction in what we do. We believe in our values, Patients First, Quality, Respect, Empowerment & Accountability.

Parexel is looking for a Medical Director with a very strong background in Ophthalmology to join our Global Medical Sciences team.  

The role is remotely based in Canada.

The Medical Director is a medical expert with specialized therapeutic expertise and some experience across indications, clients and drug development. They initiate and maintain medical and consultative relationships with clients, consult on early engagement and pre-award efforts and serve as a medical monitor for contracted projects. The Medical Director may take on leadership roles by participating in initiatives, mentoring junior MDs and/or, where appropriate, managing a team of physicians.

Primary activities will focus on Medical Monitoring Delivery & PV Support. The medical monitor will independently deliver all medical support required for successful delivery of the projects according to contracted agreement with the sponsor (i.e., tasks and time per task contracted) and according to the assigned role (Global Lead Physician or Regional Lead Physician).

Medical Expertise and experience in Ophthalmology is essential to the medical monitor role and will be manifested in high quality consultation on protocol development or drug development programs, medical review of various documents, collaboration on internal therapeutic area meetings, training module development, white papers, slide sets, publications etc.

Client Relationship Building & Engagement, including soliciting and addressing client feedback and suggestions regarding medical study-related activities, are core skills required of the medical monitor.

Business Development: the medical monitor will provide medical expertise / leadership in Proposal Development Teams (PDTs) for client bid pursuit meetings.

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to interact well with sponsor/client counterparts

• Client-focused approach to work

• Excellent time management skills

• Excellent verbal and written medical communication skills

• Excellent standard of written and spoken English

• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning

• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail

• Willingness to work in a matrix environment and to value the importance of teamwork.

Knowledge And Experience

• Experience in clinical medicine (general or specialist qualifications) with Fellowship or specialty training in Ophthalmology, which is expected to be kept up to date.

• A background in clinical aspects of drug development, including all aspects of Medical Monitoring and study design/execution, preferred

• Clinical practice experience

• Good knowledge of the drug development process including drug safety, preferred

• Experience in Pharmaceutical Medicine, preferred

• Experience leading, mentoring and managing individuals/ a team, preferred

Education

• Board certified in Ophthalmology or equivalent

• Experience as a Physician in Industry or as a clinical trial investigator is required

• Previous CRO experience is required

• Medically qualified in an acknowledged medical school with completion of at least basic training in clinical medicine (residency, internship)

The ability to travel 15% is required.

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