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    Director, Medical Affairs - Waltham, United States - Apellis

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    Apellis Waltham, United States

    5 days ago

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    Job Description

    Position Summary:

    The Director of Global Medical Affairs Strategy, Ophthalmology is a key member of the global medical affairs team who will work closely with medical affairs and cross-functional stakeholders to implement key aspects of the global medical affairs strategy for ophthalmology. The successful candidate will drive strategic execution across medical affairs activities, which may include data generation, insight gathering, and scientific communications/publications, as the medical affairs team prepares for launch readiness in the ophthalmology space.

    Key Responsibilities Include:

    • Lead a cross-functional product safety team focused on post-marketing experience
    • Lead the medical review of post-marketing product safety, including aggregating all relevant imaging data and patient demographics, as well as other pertinent information, and assembling data into cohesive patient narratives for review and presentation
    • Be the point of contact for safety-related peer-to-peer discussions with clinicians who are utilizing Syfovre
    • Work closely with the clinical development team and other cross-functional partners to assemble any relevant safety findings in an effort to inform future decision making
    • Support the development of tactics aligned with the GMA strategy on the Global Evidence Generation team in alignment with product strategy
    • Serve as strategic/clinical resource to cross-functional stakeholders

    Education, Registration & Certification:

    • MD or equivalent degree required

    Experience:

    • 8-10 years of work experience
    • 3-5 years + experience in pharmaceutical/biotechnology medical affairs organization (Medical Director and/or Medical Communications experience strongly preferred)

    Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

    • Significant experience across drug development stages, particularly in late-stage development, launch, and post approval setting
    • Experience in ophthalmology/retina strongly preferred, including deep knowledge of immunology and ocular inflammation
    • Experience working with clinical research sites and practices within the retina field strongly preferred
    • Significant experience in clinical development and/or medical affairs focused on tracking product safety and leading product safety workstreams for Medical Affairs or Clinical Development
    • Agency management experience preferred
    • Strong leadership skills, including the ability to influence at all levels of an organization.
    • Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation and facilitation.
    • Ability to work independently and with flexibility to handle work flow in a fast-paced environment.
    • Some travel will be required, up to 40%.

    Benefits and Perks:

    Apellis offers a great benefit package which includes: health insurance with full premium coverage, 401K with company match, paid time off (PTO), long- term disability insurance, life insurance and more Visit to learn more.

    Company Background:

    Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a global biopharmaceutical company that combines courageous science and compassion to develop life-changing therapies for some of the most challenging diseases patients face. We ushered in the first new class of complement medicine in 15 years and now have two approved medicines targeting C3. These include the first and only therapy for geographic atrophy, a leading cause of blindness around the world. With nearly a dozen clinical and pre-clinical programs underway, we believe we have only begun to unlock the potential of targeting C3 across many serious diseases.

    For more information, please visit or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn

    EEO Statement:

    Apellis is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state and local fair employment practices laws. Apellis strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy), gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, marital status, AIDS/HIV status, smoker/nonsmoker, and occupational pneumoconiosis or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.

    For San Francisco postings: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

    Other Duties:

    Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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