Senior Medical Director, Oncologist (solid tumor)

Global Medical Services (GMS) provides medical leadership and specialized therapeutic area expertise to the Parexel organization. As Parexel focuses on our strategic pillars of keeping the patient at the heart of everything we do and leveraging our strengths to deliver and grow, we believe that our therapeutic area expertise is a true differentiator.​​​​​​​

Our GMS organizational model/structure is aligned around key therapeutic franchises (5 franchises and 20 + Therapeutic Areas, 250+ employees globally) to support high quality medical monitoring, leverage our expertise, strengthen, and build our customer relationships and drive new business.

The Senior Medical Director, Oncologist is a recognized medical expert and leader with both specialized therapeutic expertise and broad experience across indications, clients, and drug development. They initiate and maintains medical and consultative relationships with clients, consult on early engagement and pre-award efforts and serve as a medical monitor for contracted projects. The Senior Medical Director, Oncologist may represent Global Medical Services (GMS) on cross-functional initiatives, lead initiatives within GMS, and manages a small team of physicians.

Key Accountabilities

• Project Execution – Medical Monitoring Delivery and PV Support

• Client Relationship Building and Engagement

• Medical Expertise

• Business Development

• Department and Cross-Functional Team Leadership

Skills / Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience in clinical research with a specialty in oncology (solid tumor), which is expected to be kept up to date

• A strong background in clinical aspects of drug development, including all aspects of Medical Monitoring and study design/execution

• Excellent knowledge of the drug development process including drug safety

• Clinical practice experience

• Experience working for a CRO highly desirable, or experience working for pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology companies

• Level of expertise is recognized internally and by others in the industry

• Client-focused approach to work

• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to interact well with sponsor/client counterparts, internal colleagues and to manage and mentor staff

• Excellent verbal and written medical and business communication skills

• Excellent standard of written and spoken English

• Excellent problem solving, risk assessment and decision-making skills at the department and enterprise level with the ability to analyze business needs and act decisively

• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning

• Excellent time management skills

• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail

• Willingness to work in a matrix environment and to value the importance of teamwork

Education:

• Board certified in Oncology (solid tumor) with extensive clinical experience. Experience as a Physician in Industry or as a clinical trial investigator is a plus.

• Medically qualified in an acknowledged medical school with completion of at least a basic training in clinical medicine (residency, internship)

Travel as required by the business