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Bei Gene
United States · Remote OK

Senior Medical Director, Product Safety Physician Lead

Medical AffairsFull-Time

Listed compensation

$298K–$368K

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Posted 3mo ago

Job Description

BeOne continues to grow at a rapid pace with challenging and exciting opportunities for experienced professionals. When considering candidates, we look for scientific and business professionals who are highly motivated, collaborative, and most importantly, share our passionate interest in fighting cancer.

The Senior Medical Director serves as the Lead Product Safety Physician for multiple or large complex strategically important developmental programs (often multi-indication) and creates and maintains a single interpretation of global safety data for developmental. With the support of Safety Physicians and Safety Scientists identifies and manages the documentation and communication of safety concerns and together with teams engaged in BeOne sponsored studies, ensures the safety of patients.

Essential Functions of the Job

Accountable for oversight of benefit/risk safety profile of allocated products through the product life cycle with a principle focus on early development

Actively leads and enhances knowledge of safety profiles for allocated products, including both BeOne and competitor products

Identifies and actively leads management of safety concerns for developmental and approved BeOne products

Actively leads Development and, as required, Medical Affairs product teams in the identification of, and handling of product safety concerns

Governance

Chairs Safety Management Team (SMT) meetings for assigned products, reviews SMT materials, develops & represents safety perspective in SMT meetings

Represents the SMT and participates in Company Safety Committee (CSC) meetings, support meeting preparations, develop & proposes review topics/ CSC agenda items

Actively leads communication of recommendations to labeling group/other stakeholders

Actively participates in meetings as required in External Safety Monitoring Committees (DMC) meetings through provision and review of safety data, insights and leadership and provides input to DMC Charters

Actively leads Internal Safety Monitoring Committees (SMC) meetings (e. g., dose escalation safety meeting) & supports as needed. Provides input to safety charters

Product Labeling, as Required for Work on Later Development Programs

Actively leads communication of CSC recommendations for labeling amendments, participates in Labeling Working Group meetings, leads communication of Safety outcomes to relevant stakeholders

Actively leads the development and maintenance of the Company Core Safety Information (CCSI), proposes edits and manages approval of amendments

Presents the CCSI to the labeling committee, contributes viewpoint to CCDS development, and reviews company core data sheet

Provides safety insights to development of Package Insert and Labeling Updates, develops labeling update impact summaries for use by RA, develops labeling prose text updates, based on internal aggregated reports

Issues Management

  • Leads and manages escalation of potential issues to the SMT, ensures internal notification and provides updates
  • Leads and develops strategy for issue management and facilitates internal approval of plans

Leads the review of issue data and closure on recommendations, leads the drafting of an issue response document, reviews, and manages approval of issue response documentation and responses

Leads the formulation of a rapid response procedure, triage of potential issues to safety committee, executes Crisis Management response plan, reviews ongoing issue and plan

Reviews regulatory inquiry to lead strategizing the nature of response, best course of action and determines data specifications, Reviews relevant data required for response

Leads responses and contributes to formal response provided to regulatory agencies, reviews draft response, and manages approval of response

Actively leads the incorporation of latest updates and findings from ongoing pharmacovigilance and epidemiological analysis

Actively leads BeOne safety in face-to-face regulatory meetings

Actively leads and develops an evaluation of safety enquiries (Internal, External, HCP & consumer), leads the assignment of response drafting responsibility, determines data required for response, reviews response data & drafts response and manages approval of responses

Guides and leads medical review of SAEs and provides immediate input to escalated reports, determines, and executes further escalation within BeOne as needed

Commercialization Support and Liaison with Other Functions

Leads and develops strategic plans for safety differentiation of BeOne products, provides training BeOne employees on product safety profiles/issues, provides input into commercial publications strategy, reviews publications, including abstracts, manuscripts, and speaker presentations, provides input for potential in-licensing opportunities as requested

Leads product liaison for BeOne functions (Legal, Bus Dev, Operations, Marketing, etc.), executes appropriate communication of safety data and interpretation to BeOne and external parties, globally, facilitates communication with country office medical directors as required.

Leads EU/International Safety Communication & Co-ordination training to BeOne employees on product safety issues and profiles

Trial Safety Support

Accountable for the collaborative authoring of safety content in clinical trial documentation, including but not limited to protocols, IBs, and ICFs. Able to collaborate and advise on technical aspects of trial design including escalation and expansion design, DLT criteria, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and risk monitoring and management aspects.

Accountable for safety data, reviews and provides advice on Safety Endpoints, safety related inclusion and exclusion criteria data to capture during trial, key review activities and timing, reviews and leads input on product program wide safety issues, protocols, and protocol updates. Expected to demonstrate and model responsive and collaborative medical review of ICSRs and aggregate safety reviews with cross functional colleagues.

Accountable for the content of safety sections of the Development Safety Update Report (DSUR), reviews and approves

Accountable for development and maintenance of RSIs, contributes to the safety sections of the IB, ICF and updates and manages any needs to reconsent subjects in ongoing trials based on emergent safety data assessment

Actively leads and develops expectations of expected, anticipated statistical analyses to run over trial for the SAP and provides product program wide input on safety statistical elements required for analysis

Accountable for data requirement recommendations and safety section for clinical data management plan for capture during clinical trials, supports the review and update of data management plan based on updates to integrated safety viewpoint during trial

Accountable for the determination of safety data required for capture in CRFs during clinical trials, reviews and provides product program wide input to CRFs

  • Leads the formulation safety criteria and review of study specific medical monitoring plans
  • Participates in investigator meetings, as needed, accountable for product safety profile and reviews, approves and updates of safety presentation content
  • Developmental Product Safety Monitoring and Surveillance (Protocol Specific)
  • Accountable for output/summary report for inclusion into clinical, filing
  • Accountable for daily, weekly, and monthly review of SAEs and abnormal labs, protocol specific review of aggregate SAEs and specific analysis of aggregate CTDB (AE tables, shift tables, listings)
  • Submission Filing Safety Support, as Required for Work on Later Development Programs
  • Proactively, reviews and interprets study safety data, supports Clinical Study Report narrative generation, leads the interpretation-based safety sections of reports, reviews draft report
  • Accountable for drafting the safety sections of the Summary of Clinical Safety and ISS
  • Leads 120-day update plans and activities

Extra-Departmental Liaison & Co-ordination

  • Represents and promotes safety at the product development team as core team member, contributes to development strategy for allocated compounds
  • Leads the preparations for and attends clinical team meetings
  • Actively leads contribution to development of differentiation of BeOne products, provides training guidance to marketing training materials, reviews, and contributes to marketing materials
  • Internal Global Patient Safety Department Development Interfaces
  • Leads GPS product co-ordination, chairs product group meetings across GPS
  • Pharmacovigilance
  • Leads and manages safety PV processes for BeOne and competitor products

Accountable for the development of Product Safety Strategy and the writing and maintenance of the Safety Surveillance Plans

Actively leads safety Issue Assessment and documentation, develop determination of issue scope, execute risk assessment

  • Accountable for development and update summary of competitor safety profile labelling, FOI, and issues
  • Accountable for development and maintenance of product safety profiles and develops Events of Interest
  • Presents data at scheduled and ad hoc product safety reviews, chair review meetings, identifies safety issues for escalation to SMT, determine if a safety concern needs escalation to management, facilitates closure on recommendations
  • Accountable for development and maintenance of updates to Product Surveillance Plans

Actively leads the scope, strategy, and content of responses to HA assessment reports, contribute to authoring of relevant sections

As Required for Work on Later Development Programs

Actively leads the definition of Risk Management Plan (RMP) drivers & content, reviews core RMP & local RMPs (or REMS) and leads execution of RMP elements, documentation of evidence of RMP execution, evaluates potential risks for evidence of risk confirmation and leads recommendations for RMP/REMS update

Actively leads the development of safety Post Approval Commitments (PAC) proposals, facilitates the des

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Medical Director serves as the Lead Product Safety Physician for complex developmental programs, overseeing the benefit/risk safety profile throughout the product life cycle. They are responsible for managing safety concerns, leading safety management teams, and ensuring regulatory compliance through effective communication and data analysis.

Requirements

Candidates must hold an MD or internationally recognized equivalent with an accredited residency and at least 6 years of pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry experience. Significant experience in safety for Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials, along with oncology expertise, is preferred.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
10+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical developmentRegulatory affairsClinical researchMatrix managementMedDRASafety database managementBenefit/risk assessmentClinical trial design

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About Bei Gene

Biotechnology Research
Cambridge, MA
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical, Dental, Vision
401(k)
FSA/HSA
Life Insurance
Paid Time Off
Wellness
Annual bonus plan
Equity awards