Medical Advisor

Job description

Medical Advisor (CSU)

About the Opportunity

The CSU Medical Advisor is the Medical and Scientific reference point within the Clinical Study Unit (CSU) for scientific training and advice of the operational team, and for the scientific supervision of clinical studies. The CSU Medical Advisor holds primary responsibility for the clinical studies feasibility assessment and protocol design optimization; he/she is the scientific liaison among the Global Clinical Study Director, , the CSU team and the Investigators for the protocol optimization and for all clinical aspects related to the Clinical Studies. According to potential unmet medical needs and/or new compounds emerging, the CSU Medical Advisor evaluates areas for potential clinical development nationally, with a view to optimizing and increasing involvement in international clinical studies of both Italian and Cluster sites.

About Sanofi Business Unit

As people live longer, chronic conditions are on the rise. New viruses and diseases are emerging while old enemies like cancer and neurodegenerative diseases remain. Sanofi is driven by the scope of these health challenges.

As researchers, we are passionate about scientific excellence because we know that what we do today may improve the lives of people tomorrow. We work to transform scientific knowledge and medical advances into cutting-edge therapies for patients. Discovering solutions to the world’s most pressing unmet medical needs is our top priority and inspires us to be the best possible health journey partner for patients.

Sanofi R&D community is made up of scientists, physicians, technicians, product and manufacturing engineers and many others who contribute to our scientific leadership. Our goal is breakthrough innovation that can transform, extend and potentially save lives.

At the end of 2018, the R&D pipeline contained 81 projects including 40 new molecular entities in clinical development.   N. 30 projects are in phase 3 or have been submitted to the regulatory authorities for approval. 

Key responsibilities

·  Ensure adequate finalization of protocol by interacting with few selected Experts and KOLs, both at Country level and Cluster level and by giving thorough feedback to the Global team;
·  Evaluates during feasibility potential implementation of protocol in his/her Country or Cluster, by interacting both with investigators chosen among expert and reliable trialists and with respective Medical Advisors within the Cluster;
·  Guarantees continuous interaction with local Medical Affairs for a productive relationship with KOLs and support for handover of R&D products to marketed compounds;
·  Finalizes and keeps updated in collaboration with Monitoring Team and Medical Affairs, a list of trial centers of excellence and of Opinion Leaders, thus making more effective selection of centers for further feasibilities and study implementation;
·  Collaborate with the monitoring team in drawing up scientific documents;
·  To support the Monitoring Team in tackling issues of a medical/scientific nature connected with study protocols in the area of competence;
·  Based on an international clinical program, to identify the areas and the new therapeutic indications in which the CSU expertise needs strengthening; to prepare a plan of implementation.

About You

To excel in this role, you need to be skilled in:

·  Medical leadership in one of the therapeutic area of Sanofi involvement with high communicational and teaching skills;
·  Team working ability to guarantee scientific activity and production of documents and reports which are focused on ethics, quality and are compliant with applicable legislation and guidelines.
·  Management and organizational skills (planning, priority setting, flexibility);
·  Good interpersonal and listening skills, enterprising spirit focused on involvement of CSU in new Corporate projects.

Essential requirements:

·  Education: Degree in Medicine with specialization or equivalent expertise in one of the following field: Internal Medicine, Diabetes and Cardiovascular, Pulmonology, Immuno-Inflammation, Oncology or Neurology;
·  Previous clinical research experience at investigational sites, or in pharmaceutical company; working knowledge of clinical trial design and development.

About Sanofi

Empower Life Everyday

At Sanofi we work across human health from vaccines to rare diseases, and consumer healthcare. This creates opportunities to work across different areas to build a diverse and exciting career. Sanofi has the capabilities and resources to support your aspirations to fulfill your ambitions and be the best you can be.

Our purpose at Sanofi is to work passionately every day to understand and solve healthcare needs of people across the world. Our ambition is by 2025, to be a top 3 innovative, global and diversified human healthcare company. One that embraces transformative technologies and is focused on its area of excellence, which means we’re not there to try to solve everybody’s problems. We want to focus on those areas where we know we are making a difference. 

The values we are live by are teamwork, courage, respect and integrity.

At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.