Job Description

Are you looking for an opportunity where you can utilize your medical knowledge to convey scientific data and interact with medical global thought leaders? Are you passionate about the world of clinical trials? Are you highly motivated by being able to make a difference in improving patients lives? If so, we have an exciting Clinical Medical Manager opportunity for you. Apply today!The Position
As a Clinical Medical Manager, you will facilitate the execution of clinical trials related to New Therapy Areas (including Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), Nephrology, Hepatology and Alzheimers disease) by providing medical/scientific expertise and advice based on interactions with KOLs, independent professional associations, and patient advocacy associations as necessary. This is a field position, you are expected to travel all over South Africa, min. 80% of your working time.Your main responsibilities will be:

• Identify and map KOLs, investigators, and research centres within the relevant therapy areas and collaborate closely with clinical operations teams during the feasibility and allocation process.
• Collect and discuss relevant early development data with external medical and scientific experts optimizing the feasibility process for the clinical trial conduct and regularly engage with the clinical experts in relevant TAs to obtain guidance relevant to clinical trial execution.
• Contribute to delivering successful clinical trials (phase I-IV) in collaboration with clinical operations including driving scientific discussions at site selection and initiation visits, performing ad hoc visits, ensuring KOL inclusion in clinical trials, and engaging key investigators to convey trial results.
• Provide timely medical guidance and internal training by helping in content creation and delivering training to clinical staff.
• Engage in extensive scientific communication internally as well as externally and excellent and proactive communications skills are a necessity. Strong presentation skills are a must.

Qualifications

• Medical Degree / Bachelor of Medicine or PhD. in health science, Pharmacist with postgraduate qualification.
• Minimum 3 years of clinical or pharmaceutical industry experience (can be combination of medical + clinical experience). Clinical research background would be considered as an advantage.
• Work experience from international pharmaceutical company or CRO is must have.
• Good understanding of pharmaceutical drug development processes and relevant experience as clinical trial investigator, or sub-investigator is preferred.
• Expert in the therapeutic area of relevance, preferably with authorship in peer-reviewed journals.
• Knowledge of the specificities and nuances of the local healthcare infrastructure.
• Valid driving licence and willingess to travel.

About The Department
This is an entire, to be built, new team sitting between our Clinical and Medical team in order to build relationships with specialists for our new therapeutic areas. The positions are mainly field based creating visibility to the sites and connecting science with to the related therapeutic area. The field means across South Africa, but preferably the person is based in Johannesburg for easy access to our office, working closely with our clinical trials and medical team. We are recruiting for 4 Clinical Medical Managers, and one person to lead this team, the Head of Clinical Medical Managers.Working at Novo Nordisk
We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. Were 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 were all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.Contact
Please click on "apply now" to submit your resume in English.We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.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, were life changing.

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