Executive Director, Global Content

Job Description

As a science-based healthcare company with a longstanding commitment to inventing and providing important medicines and vaccines, subject to local law, we will require all U.S. and Puerto Rico based employees to be vaccinated by November 1, 2021, unless they have an approved medical or religious exemption or accommodation. We are committed to supporting our employees during this process as we work to ensure a safe and healthy work environment.”

We are a research-driven biopharmaceutical company. Our mission is built on the simple premise that if we “follow the science” that great medicines can make a significant impact to our world. We believe that a research-driven enterprise dedicated to world-class science can succeed by inventing medicine and vaccine innovations that make a difference for patients across the globe.

Our Medical Affairs team advances patient care by engaging in scientific exchange with external medical experts and industry professionals ensuring the scientific value of our products is realized. We engage and train internal employees to ensure that they thoroughly comprehend the science behind the medicine and review further unmet medical needs to bolster collaboration and further differentiate our portfolio.

Role Summary

• The Executive Director (ED), Global Scientific Content (GSC) Lead is a leadership role within Global Medical Affairs Capabilities (GMAC) in Global Medical and Scientific Affairs (GMSA) that reports directly to the Assistant Vice President, GMAC Lead. The ED GSC Lead is an integral member of the GMAC Leadership Team providing insight and advice on strategic direction and is accountable for assisting and driving execution of the vision of GMAC and Global Scientific Content Organization.

• The ED GSC Lead is responsible for several core GMSA global initiatives, including 1) Overseeing a group of team leads that ensure development of Global Scientific Content Plans as part of the Global Scientific and Medical Affairs Research Team (SMART) Plans, 2) Providing input into the Scientific Communication Platform (SCP) and ensuring appropriate use in Global Scientific Content, and 3) Incorporating medical insights and feedback from key stakeholders into GSC plans and resources and providing these resources through different channels (internal and external) compliantly.

Responsibilities and Primary Activities

Leadership

• Manages people and builds optimal teams and talent

• Understands the mission and vision of GMSA as a science-driven and patient-committed organization

• Manages, leads, and supports professional development of GSC team

• Stays current with key initiatives across GMSA and supports fellow leadership colleagues and their teams in achieving deliverables against organizational priorities

• Understands and executes end-to-end people and performance-management activities (e.g., performance reviews, ongoing feedback, talent management, succession planning, recruitment, retention)

• Oversees complex initiatives with global scope and impact aligned with key GMAC GSC priorities

• Collaborates with other GMAC colleagues to ensure alignment across the broader organization

• Partners with leadership team members across GMSA, Global Clinical Development, Research and Development (R&D), Center for Observational and Real-World Evidence (CORE), and our company to define operational efficiencies

• Presents ongoing strategic updates at GMSA leadership team meetings as well as at other relevant forums (e.g., summits, townhalls, operations reviews, Priority Project meetings)

• Exhibits executive presence, deep subject matter expertise, and strong business acumen

Global Scientific Content

• Provides strategic input into the development of processes to inform GMSA Strategies and Annual Plans

  • Conducts quantitative and qualitative analysis and insights reporting to understand global stakeholder needs in Global Medical Information (GMI) and Field Medical (FM) organizations

  • Incorporates metrics/insights for translating GMSA strategies into scientific platform development for scientific content creation

• Develops GSC strategies and executes GSC plans

  • Implements global annual planning in alignment with publication plans and strategies, clinical development plans, GMSA SMART plans, and scientific communication platforms

  • Creates GSC strategies and annual tactical plans as a component of the GMSA SMART Plans in collaboration with key GMSA stakeholders in Global, Region, and Country and other MRL partners (e.g., CORE)

  • Ensures timely availability of effective and compliant proactive/reactive resources for use by GMI and FM organizations

  • Collaborates with CORE on scientific response documents that address Real-World Evidence inquiries to ensure clinical relevance and medical accuracy of the content

• Leverages therapeutic area expertise to provide the team with actionable insights for the creation of content assets

  • Ensures adequate integration of data and scientific evidence in a more patient-centric approach

• Optimizes GSC resources and financial plans to ensure link to strategically aligned and prioritized investments

  • Monitors GSC initiatives to ensure adequate resourcing and timely execution

  • Identifies overlapping initiatives and if needed, aligns/stops activities to ensure efficient use of resources

  • Collaborates with GMAC finance/HR teams on budgetary/headcount management to drive to annual targets

• Oversees GSC initiatives and communicates status to senior management on a regular basis

• Works closely with GSC Leadership Team (LT) to optimize existing processes and systems

  • Collaborates with the Regional GSC Hub Leads and Country Medical teams

  • Understands the current state of complex processes and distills the action items to address key gaps

  • Defines the optimal future state processes and supporting systems and activates teams to develop detailed project plans to achieve the optimal future state

  • Implements standardized and harmonized processes

• Ensures alignment among GSC, GMAC, and key stakeholder functions (Human Health, MRL, Compliance, Legal, Finance, etc.) to achieve our collective goals

• Instills a culture of best practice and knowledge sharing globally, regionally, and locally

• Is accountable for GSC team performance management, organizational talent review and development, and succession planning for the GSC members

• Supports all members of the GSC team in building even higher levels of ownership, commitment, and employee engagement

Education Requirement:

• PharmD/PhD/MD plus 10+ years of relevant experience (biotechnology, Medical Affairs, Medical Communications)

• Or, BA degree with at least 20 years of relevant experience (biotechnology, Medical Affairs, Medical Communications)

Required:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication (written and oral) skills

• Extensive experience managing people

• Effective, versatile, and action-oriented approach

• Ability to work strategically and collaboratively across complex matrix organizations, departments, and geographies

• Proven ability to lead multi-functional teams, with good networking and cross-functional management skills

• Demonstrated ability to lead, organize, coordinate, and execute on multiple concurrent, global, and complex projects

• Prior experience working within multiple regional regulations and compliance requirements

• Strong personal integrity and high ethical standards

• High level of familiarity with a broad range of compliance areas and ability to assess risk and develop solutions

• A thorough understanding of ethical guidelines relevant to the pharmaceutical industry to ensure compliance with external and internal guidelines and standard operating procedures

• Strong business and financial acumen and a customer focus

• Demonstrated ability to innovate with practical solutions for complex issues

• Demonstrated strong decision-making skills and ability to weigh advantages, disadvantages, and business impact for rapid decisions

• Ability to exercise influence over a continuum of stakeholders and a proven track record of effectively interacting with senior management

• Demonstrated experience in identifying process gaps and building new processes

Preferred:

• Knowledge of the publication process and scientific platform development

• Therapeutic competency in multiple areas, including Oncology

• Experience with multiple product launches

• Demonstrated ability to engage in scientific exchange across diverse stakeholders (scientific leaders, formulary/Health Technology Assessment decision-making bodies, primary care/specialists)

• Experience in collaborating and creating Global Medical Affairs Strategies and Tactical Plans

• Prior experience with clinical development in relation to clinical trial support

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization. Together we will continue Inventing For Life, Impacting Lives while Inspiring Your Career Growth.

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Requisition ID:R144917