Job Description Summary
30 million! That is the estimated number of patients worldwide suffering from inflammatory arthritis. Join Novartis to help find the right drugs that transform and improve patients' lives all around the world.You will join an international team of clinicians and scientists making significant impact on autoimmune diseases with high unmet medical need, taking new medicines into early-stage clinical trials: in many cases you will be the first to witness the effectiveness of a new medicine that may transform the lives of millions. Your medical and scientific leadership / expertise will significantly impact the Novartis autoimmune drug development pipeline. Go to https://www.novartis.com/our-science and scroll to the Autoimmunity research area and Translational Medicine area for more information.
Main purpose of the role:
• Direct and develop the analysis of successful translation of non-human research to human clinical trials, conducts analysis of pathways to find links to diseases.
• Identify and utilize the appropriate biomarkers to predict drug efficacy in humans or biological activity and new biomarker assays to support clinical trials and clinical development decision-making.
• Select innovative therapies and shows proof of concept or other types of early signal detection.
• Involve the integration of biomarker, genetic imaging and clinical safety information. Provide feedback in order to standardize the drug dosages and procedures for the manufacture of drugs and medicinal compounds.
Please note - this is a 100% position for 2 years.
Job Description
Your responsibilities will include:
- Developing & implementing strategies for efficient, high value management of assigned drug development projects in liaison with appropriate line functions with the objective to get to the first clinical evidence and other types of early signal detection.
- Developing & implementing efficient, high value decision strategies for the Translational Medicine component of drug development projects focusing on the early clinical phase.
- Responsibility for the development & implementation (with support from Biomarker Development) of the compound related and Disease Area Biomarker strategies.
- Contributing to the clinical strategy & the early Clinical Development Plan.
- Acting as a cross-functional member for research and clinical teams
What you’ll bring to the role:
• MD and Board-certified Rheumatologist (or similar relevant sub-specialty clinical training with directly relevant patient experience) with PhD-level basic science. A completed relevant postdoctoral fellowship is strongly preferred.
• Experience within Translational Medicine and a strong understanding of the relevant regulations and guidelines.
• Advanced / business-level / fluent English (oral and written)
Your behavioral characteristics
• Demonstrated passion for treating patients and science
• Results-driven self-starter and decision taker
• Strong cooperative team player, flexible in a changing environment
• Good planning, prioritization, problem solving and organisational skills
• Resilient, energetic and enthusiastic, responding constructively to challenging new ideas and input
Why Novartis? Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Accessibility & Accommodation : Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
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Skills Desired
Active Directory (AD), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Classification Systems, Critical Thinking, Digital Oscilloscope, Drug Development, Drug Discovery Process, Electronic Components, Facility Maintenance, Higher Education, Intensive Care UnIT (Icu), Medical Research, Professional Etiquette, Professional Presentation, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Support Services
