Field Medical Advisor

Description

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.  

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know: 
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical  and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job responsibilities

Medical Advisors provide medical and scientific expertise and guidance to investigators and CSU staff performing clinical trials within a CSU cluster to ensure patient safety and scientific integrity of the protocol which ensures the reliability of information provided to agencies at submission. They are therapeutically aligned medical experts in the country/region for the studies/projects they are responsible for. They provide appropriate medical and scientific feedback to Local CSU operations teams as well as global R&D Medical Operations, i.e., Clinical Research Director (CRD), Global Feasibility Lead (GFL), TA early planning leads, global project team, pharmacovigilance, and regulatory affairs. They ensure the medical and scientific collaboration with medical functions in the respective Business Units in the countries of their responsibility and with investigators, trialists, medical experts, and Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) in the country, region, or global level. 

Proactively assess opportunities to enhance Client’s medical/scientific value.  Understand project needs and provide effective solutions when needed. Fosters relationships with internal and external stakeholders, even in complex environments. 

The MDAs are responsible for: 

•        Providing local medical expert input into study design to help with the operationalization of studies

•        Resolution of protocol related medical and scientific questions from sites

•        MT trainings on the medical and scientific aspects of disease, compound, and protocol, 

•        Country feasibility confirmation

•        Setting of Diversity targets for assigned studies (where applicable)

• Provide medical/scientific value across a continuum of both external and internal stakeholders (e.g., key external experts, healthcare professionals, potential investigators, professional societies, patient organizations).
• Review and resolve local medical issues/questions during the study and from local regulatory authorities, transferring issues to global teams if necessary.
• Proactively seek and collect the medical voice of external experts, potential investigators, and KOLs to facilitate clinical trials, securing advice for development teams and early planning teams.
• Act as the local medical expert, providing early input into study design and operational aspects, and attend PRC meetings when applicable.
• Provide timely medical training to local MT, including CSU staff on protocols, therapeutic area, disease, products, medical environment, and scientific training to new hires.
• Provide medical and scientific advice to key internal stakeholders developing proposals, including reviewing protocols for scientific/regulatory soundness and feasibility, and providing insights on target site and principal investigator profiles.
• Exchange information between R&D and other departments within the affiliate, contributing to Medical Department Team meetings related to the therapeutic area.
• Capture country-specific information on competitive intelligence and validate global hypotheses from the Clinical Development Plan or Extended Synopsis/protocol contents.
• Liaise with local Medical Leads within Client GBUs to manage investigators and compounds.
• Support local/regional Investigator Meetings regarding medical content and interaction with investigators in collaboration with CRD.
• Ensure accuracy of translation of medical terms related to study documents into the local language, including ICF and patient materials.
• Contribute to protocol optimization and standard of care assessment as part of Pressure Test to position the study in the ecosystem and drive local strategy.
• Engage with Patient Network at local/regional level, linking to Patient Informed Development & Health Value Translation Team.
• Collaborate with TA Lead to provide impactful and relevant local information to support the Global Strategy per TA, including information to support diverse study populations.

Qualifications

• Formal Education And/or Experience Required: 
• Advanced degree (MD, PharmD, PhD in life science or equivalence) 
• Knowledge of ICH, GCP and local regulations Fluent in English
• MD degree is preferred
• Qualification in a medical specialization would be preferred but not required
• Previous experience in Clinical Practice, Clinical Research and/or Drug Development is a plus