Clinical Medical Manager Lead

Join our team as Clinical Medical Manager (CMM) Team Lead in Novo Nordisk Israel, overseeing the CMM Team activities. Would you also like to be part of a leading global company? Apply today and drive the change with us!

The Position
You will lead the 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 KOLs, 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 and investigate 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 and work in close collaboration 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. Provide leadership in the relevant scientific community conducting advisory boards, scientific meetings, driving publications and engaging with local medical associations on relevant topics. 
• 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 excellent and proactive communications skills. The CMM team Lead will travel internationally to internal meetings, congresses & company events as well as within the country to facilitate collaboration with local stakeholders. Independence, innovation, and initiative should be demonstrated when prioritising planning and performing tasks. The CMM team Lead should always perform tasks in compliance with Novo Nordisk Way.
Ideal candidates will have:

• MD or PhD degree in healthcare or life sciences with a strong clinical and preferably research background
• ≥5 years of clinical or pharmaceutical industry experience
• Experience as a people manager (≥3 years)
• Solid experience with human healthcare research
• Understanding of pharmaceutical drug development
• Good understanding the specificities and nuances of the local healthcare infrastructure
• Experience from Medical Affairs function preferred
• Strong presentation skills
• Our offices located in Kfar Saba. This is a hybrid position which requires your presence in the office three days a week.
• 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.

Deadline
25/09/2024

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At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.