Global Medical Lead

Field of work: Regulatory & Medical

Posting Date: 17 Mar 2025

Location: Ballerup 2750, Denmark, Denmark
Contract type: Permanent
Job ID: 2995

Beyond the skin
The Thrombosis Business Unit in LEO Pharma is uniquely positioned to make a significant difference for patients. We focus on high-risk patient groups and supporting healthcare systems with high quality medicines. With 80 years’ experience, we empower healthcare professionals with expert treatments for illnesses involving blood clots and other critical-care conditions.

Across the organization, we share a “challenge accepted” mindset and are guided by our winning behaviours of simplification, collaboration, and accountability, to achieve our goals.

About the role:
The Medical Lead will lead global medical strategy and set impactful results-driven strategic direction for the global and country teams.

Medical Lead will provide direct line management and lead the medical team for global and in-market teams to ensure integration and successful execution of Medical Affairs activities from both local and global Medical plans for Oncology.

Key responsibilities:

• Overall responsible for global and country medical organizations within Oncology, strategy and tactics with people management responsibilities
• Leads medical input into Global Brand Leadership, Lifecycle management and drives related medical affairs activities
• Leads development of global medical strategy and Global Medical plan. Oversees translation of global strategy into local medical functional/tactical plans
• Provides operational oversight and specifies new processes and standards to drive business or functional strategies.
• Ensures the planning and execution of medical strategy both on a global and country level which addresses current and future needs of the business
• Acts as a leader within the global cross-functional organisation, builds confidence and credibility in the medical function amongst key stakeholders
• Provides medical input to Labelling Management Team, Safety Management Team and other Global fora
• Ensures high quality global strategic scientific communication for at select global congresses and through scientific publications
• Develops Global research/IIS strategy and reviews IISs & NISs
• Oversees the medical affairs activities
• Ensures adherence to all applicable SOPs, policies, processes, & compliance guidelines
• Supports the assessment of Business Development opportunities including market expansion as needed
• Is accountable for planning and delivery of assigned activities
• Provides medical insights contributing to product development
• Makes sure the business maintains a status of compliance with affiliate and international codes and regulations relevant to the markets in which the business operates
• Leads, develops and builds a high performing, fully integrated Medical function
• Global Lead for Investigator Initiated Studies and Non-Interventional Studies, if applicable
• Global (and local, if applicable) promotional materials review

This role is based in Denmark but is open to hybrid and remote working options too.

Qualifications:

• Advanced scientific degree (MSc, MD, PhD, PharmD)
• 8+ years of Medical affairs experience in Oncology therapy area, including in-market medical affairs, with regional or global experience also being desirable
• Experience of development of insights driven medical strategy & tactics, including medical communications, patient/HCP engagement as well as design and conduct of Non-Interventional Studies and Investigator Initiated Studies
• Experience in managing individuals/teams
• Proven ability to generate, analyze and interpret clinical trial and published data
• Track record of successfully developing and executing medical functional plans both in terms of evidence generation, scientific communications and external expert engagements
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously to ensure timely, on-target and within budget accomplishment of tasks
• Analytical mindset with and in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives
• Ability to adapt information and to convey to others (team members, management team or similar) with a divergent interest
• Ability to coach, guide and develop new managers

LEO Pharma is built on collaboration, innovation and curiosity. Is this you? Can you bring this and a go-do attitude, are curious to learn about LEO Pharma’s business and thrive in a dynamic everyday where flexibility and responsibility goes hand in hand, as you take part in our transformational journey.

Your new team
You will join a dynamic and dedicated work team, highly professional with extensive experience in the sector. It is a proactive team, committed to patients and health professionals. Commitment and ability to develop synergistic tasks are key competencies of the team. The person responsible for the team will accompany you as well as your colleagues.

Contact and application
You do not need to upload a cover letter, but feel free to add a few sentences in your resume or CV on why this position has your interest.

Shape the LEO Pharma of tomorrow
Join Thrombosis Business Unit, a vital part of LEO Pharma.

Healthcare professionals provide LEO Pharma medicines to close to 100 million people in over 70 countries every year. This includes countries where we offer critical-care treatments, including preventing and treating thrombosis.

At LEO Pharma we are big enough to have impact, small enough to be agile. Our flat organizational structure empowers you to make a visible impact and offers versatile roles for professional growth. We believe in the power of individuals to drive change. We value diversity and welcome applications from all qualified candidates, recognizing that our different perspectives, backgrounds, and attitudes enable us to make the best decisions.

Join us on our journey. Apply today!

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