GLOBAL MEDICAL DIRECTOR RESUME EXAMPLE

Published: Apr 17, 2025 - The Global Medical Director leads the development and maintenance of scientific strategies for Established Products in Santen’s portfolio, addressing data gaps through analysis and collaboration. This position facilitates cross-functional data summits, manages accessible data repositories, and designs post-marketing studies to enhance the understanding and impact of Santen’s clinical data. This role provides scientific education across departments, facilitates advisory boards, and supports dossier development for regulatory filing teams.

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1. Global Medical Director, BeiGene, Waltham, MA

Job Summary:

  • Draft and approve study-specific medical monitoring plans
  • Assume role as the main point of contact for protocol-specific medical queries including subject eligibility, evaluation and reporting of adverse events with follow-up
  • Study data review on an ongoing basis
  • Collaborate with the internal pharmacovigilance team to process serious adverse events
  • Contribute medical input into the design of clinical development programs, study protocols, research papers, client-focused white papers etc.
  • Provision of therapeutic and protocol-specific training to the project teams. 
  • Supporting Business Development by participation in proposal generation, feasibility assessments, review of proposals for medical services and attending sponsor meetings
  • Collaboration with Medical Writing teams and sponsors in reviewing and/or assisting in the preparation of final study reports or other study documentation. 
  • Develop and execute global medical strategy for assigned brands
  • Partner with Commercial & Marketing teams on brand strategy and planning


Skills on Resume: 

  • Medical Monitoring (Hard Skills)
  • Adverse Event Reporting (Hard Skills)
  • Data Review (Hard Skills)
  • Pharmacovigilance Collaboration (Hard Skills)
  • Protocol Design (Hard Skills)
  • Therapeutic Training (Hard Skills)
  • Business Development (Soft Skills)
  • Strategy Planning (Soft Skills)

2. Global Medical Director, SpringWorks Therapeutics, Durham, NC

Job Summary:

  • Implementing and executing the global medical affairs strategy for insomnia and driving activities that will lead to successful launches
  • Build and develop peer-to-peer relationships with the relevant Key Opinion Leaders while collaborating with Global Clinical Development on interactions with investigators participating in clinical trials, investigator meetings and advisory boards
  • Manage innovative insomnia-related real-world evidence (RWE) generation programs & investigator-sponsored studies with centers of excellence
  • Closely collaborate with Global Clinical Development to provide input in the design of Phase IIIb and IV trials
  • Develop and implement a novel scientific communication plan and contribute to the medical/scientific review of manuscripts
  • Accountable for the medical/scientific review of scientific communication platforms, medical information resources, medical education materials & marketing materials
  • Develop product-specific training for Medical teams in the countries to deepen the product and scientific knowledge within insomnia and create informative medical decks for external use
  • Communicate in a compelling manner the medical value of the asset, inside and outside the company, such that it generates excitement and enthusiasm
  • Ensure on all levels cross-functional collaboration with Marketing, Regulatory, Drug Safety, Market Access, and Research & Development
  • Enable access to medicines through a clear understanding and education of treatment value in partnership with cross-functional team members


Skills on Resume: 

  • Global Strategy (Hard Skills)
  • Peer Relationships (Soft Skills)
  • Real-World Evidence (Hard Skills)
  • Trial Design (Hard Skills)
  • Scientific Communication (Hard Skills)
  • Medical Review (Hard Skills)
  • Product Training (Hard Skills)
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)

3. Global Medical Director, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, Princeton, NJ

Job Summary:

  • Lead the Otezla Global Medical Affairs Team
  • Serve as Global Medical Affairs lead on Product Team
  • Serve as a core member of the Evidence Generation Team
  • Lead the RWE team, ensuring the RWE Evidence Generation Plan addresses key regional/local needs
  • Gather clinical insights across all key markets and translate them into practical strategies
  • Develop medical strategic plans, ensuring alignment throughout Medical Affairs Teams/Functions
  • Establish and oversee the implementation of the medical communications strategy and related activities, e.g., product narrative, scientific platform, core content, publications, medical education, and congresses
  • Facilitate scientific engagement across a broad range of collaborators in order to strengthen external understanding of the unmet need and medical value.
  • Contribute to Amgen's Safety and Benefit/Risk profile of a molecule and ensure communication of the implications to external partners, support investigator-sponsored studies (ISS), and approve competitive grants, if applicable
  • Provide strategic direction for study design and execution for medical affairs studies


Skills on Resume: 

  • Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
  • Medical Strategy (Hard Skills)
  • Evidence Generation (Hard Skills)
  • Clinical Insights (Hard Skills)
  • Medical Communication (Hard Skills)
  • Scientific Engagement (Soft Skills)
  • Benefit/Risk Communication (Hard Skills)
  • Study Design (Hard Skills)

4. Global Medical Director, CSL Vifor, Waltham, MA

Job Summary:

  • Lead development and maintenance of scientific strategies for Established Products in Santen’s portfolio
  • Conduct data analyses, identifying data gaps in Santen data and in the literature and formulate plans to fill data gaps
  • Work with the publication lead to develop the publication and congress strategy for Established products
  • Conduct cross-functional data summits to further Santen’s understanding of clinical data and data in the literature
  • Manage repositories of available Santen data, making data and study-related information accessible to the Global Medical Affairs team
  • Design appropriate post-marketing studies for Established products
  • Understand the level of scientific expertise across multiple departments and proactively provide audience-appropriate internal scientific education
  • Facilitate advisory boards, identifying needs for external input, selecting appropriate advisors, and ensuring external input reaches all appropriate Santen stakeholders
  • Support dossier development with scientific, editorial or other support.
  • Participate in regulatory filing teams


Skills on Resume: 

  • Scientific Strategy (Hard Skills)
  • Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Publication Strategy (Hard Skills)
  • Data Summits (Soft Skills)
  • Data Management (Hard Skills)
  • Post-Marketing Studies (Hard Skills)
  • Scientific Education (Soft Skills)
  • Advisory Boards (Soft Skills)

5. Global Medical Director, Lundbeck, Deerfield, IL

Job Summary:

  • Serve as a scientific subject matter expert on external podium presentations
  • Establish and maintain strong peer-to-peer relationships with key medical thought leaders in the fields where Santen offers Established products
  • Liaise closely with Data Sciences and Clinical Operations departments to ensure Global Medical Affairs has access to current and accurate data and clinical trails
  • Provide rigorous scientific review of medical and promotional materials as well as of Grant requests such as Independent Medical Education and investigator-initiated studies
  • Generate audience-appropriate scientific and medical insights to cross-functional teams at various levels within the Santen organization
  • Work in close partnership with the Field Medical Team to collect valuable Field Insights and apply to the medical strategy
  • Contribute Medical knowledge and expertise to Training activities targeted at internal and external audiences (e.g., Commercial teams and Speakers, respectively)
  • Devise an external engagement strategy and maintain relationships with top-tier KOLs
  • Ensure materials and educational activities are compliant and of the highest scientific quality


Skills on Resume: 

  • Scientific Expertise (Hard Skills)
  • Peer Relationships (Soft Skills)
  • Data Liaison (Hard Skills)
  • Scientific Review (Hard Skills)
  • Medical Insights (Hard Skills)
  • Field Insights (Soft Skills)
  • Training Contribution (Hard Skills)
  • External Engagement (Soft Skills)

6. Global Medical Director, Biogen, Cambridge, MA

Job Summary:

  • Develop and deliver the Brand Medical Plan(s) aligned to the TA Medical Strategy
  • Leveraging relationships with external customers to ensure robust physician and patient’s insights is what drives successful product launches
  • Interfacing with internal and external stakeholders in conjunction with the local medical teams to enhance the scientific and clinical understanding of drugs in the therapeutic area
  • Managing and developing both existing and new medical activities supporting the delivery of commercial success, along with high ethical standards and full compliance with ethics and regulatory requirements. 
  • Interact with external stakeholders in alignment with customer needs and medical strategy
  • Maintain the Knowledge Base and Competitive Intelligence
  • Maintaining company standards
  • Provide scientific leadership and expertise to other business functions 
  • Develop data generation and real-world evidence plans
  • Oversee ongoing and proposed IITs


Skills on Resume: 

  • Brand Medical (Hard Skills)
  • Customer Relationships (Soft Skills)
  • Stakeholder Interface (Soft Skills)
  • Medical Activities (Hard Skills)
  • External Alignment (Soft Skills)
  • Competitive Intelligence (Hard Skills)
  • Scientific Leadership (Soft Skills)
  • Data Generation (Hard Skills)