Medical Director, Clinical Research
Job Description
We’re looking for an oncology clinical research expert to help us accomplish our mission to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient.
As a member of the Research Oncology team that supports our Clinical Research unit, you will provide clinical and research leadership to our multifunctional teams that are building transformational digital tools to streamline clinical trials operations, inform study design, help oncology teams identify patients for research studies, and make clinical trials more widely available wherever patients receive their care. The Research Oncology team works to ensure research quality and provide a patient-focused lens to development of new digital products that re-envision the clinical trial landscape. You will be responsible for ensuring that we are building clinically accurate and scientifically compelling research solutions.
Responsibilities
- Providing clinical and scientific leadership to teams developing novel approaches to running clinical research studies
- Contributing to the Clinical Research unit’s strategic development as well as project execution
- Managing a growing team of clinician researchers
- Serving as clinical lead on prospective technology-enabled clinical trials, including:
-Study design and protocol development
-Data oversight
-Analytic guidance and data interpretation
-Manuscript planning and execution
- Leading research projects to evaluate new methodology or using Flatiron real-world data to generate insights that inform new innovations in clinical research
- Representing Flatiron at meetings with sponsors and clinical investigators, and participating in speaking engagements and national committees as a thought leader in clinical research
- Providing clinical expertise for new products in development that provide value to our research stakeholders, including both oncology clinical research sites and life sciences partners
- Collaborating with key cross-functional internal and external stakeholders
You’ll work closely with our Research Oncology, Regulatory, Pharmacovigilance, Data Strategy, Clinical Operations, Product, Quantitative Sciences, and Engineering teams.
Job Requirements
- You have the appropriate experience required:
- You have a Medical Degree (MD) and Oncology subspecialty training
- You have 4+ years experience working in clinical research drug development, at least 2 of which are in the industry setting (e.g. medical affairs or clinical development departments)
- You are comfortable thinking about healthcare technology and the clinical trial end user, and enjoy thinking through research pain points with a product development lens
- You have the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- You have empathy for the challenges that oncologists and research staff face in the pursuit of clinical research
- You have outstanding communication and presentation skills
- You are effective at driving collaboration, achieving results, influencing, and resolving conflicts across internal and external project teams
- You can easily explain scientific and clinical concepts to a non-medical, highly sophisticated audience, and have a willingness to teach and learn
- You are self-motivated, autonomous, and are able to prioritize
Extra Credit
- You have experience as a medical monitor or in medical affairs
- You have experience with clinical research digital technologies
- You have used Flatiron products
- You have experience with real-world evidence
