Associate Director, Medical Affairs CAR-T

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Job Function:
Medical Affairs Group

Job Sub Function:
Medical Affairs

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Job Description:

The Associate Director, Medical Affairs CAR-T is responsible for medical and scientific leadership for Johnson & Johnson’s CAR-T strategy.

This role is responsible and accountable for providing high level, evidenced-based, scientific expertise to internal and external partners. 

The successful candidate will lead the Integrated Evidence Generation Process (IEGP) in collaboration with the therapeutic area team and in direct communication with the global organization.

He/She/They will provide scientific support for evidence generation activities including local Phase IV clinical studies and Investigator Initiated Studies.

He/She/They will also work closely with external sites to ensure seamless integration of CAR-T into the health care system.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:


* Collaborate with the Therapeutic Area Head to develop and deploy the launch strategy for CAR-T in alignment with internal stakeholders and external CAR-T treating physicians, coordinators and sites


* Drive pre-launch and launch activities and strategic projects from Launch Readiness (LRT), Medical integration (MIT) and Patient Value Teams (PVT).


* Co-lead the design and execution of CAR-T strategy at PVT level.


* People management: lead the CAR-T field medical operation role


* Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to align on portfolio strategy in relevant therapeutic areas or disease states.


* Work with Therapeutic Area Head to secure required resources to execute the Medical Affairs Plan and manage the resources appropriately 


* Identifies data gaps for each product within the respective disorders areas and develops a Data Generation Plan Presents data gaps to Global team and actively participates in the research approval process, ReCAP


* Participates and represents Canada on the global Med Affairs Team (GMAT)


* Liaise with multiple global partners to provide expertise and to ensure Canadian needs are met in collaboration with the Therapeutic Area Head, lead and partner in interactions with key individual stakeholders to provide input and decision-making into short, medium, and long-range solutions to ensure appropriate data generation and data communication strategies


* Champion Investigator...