Medical Director/Scientific Director, Psychiatry Pipeline, Medical Affairs and Health Impact 

• Provides specialist medical and scientific strategic and operational input into core medical affairs strategies and activities such as healthcare professional/provider interactions (Payers, Patients, Prescribers, and Providers); generation of clinical and scientific data (enhancing therapeutic benefit and value); educational initiatives (medical education, data, guidelines and value proposition);
• Works closely with clinical development, regulatory, marketing and commercial teams to provide strategic medical input into core brand (product) strategies, and to support medical/marketing activities  and market access.
• Drives global medical affairs input into and influences the development of asset strategy.
• Provides specialist medical insights, and executes data generation, communication, and expert engagement activities as deliverables to relevant Asset Strategy Teams (ASTs) for early development programs including leading or contributing to: comprehensive gap assessment, development of Scientific Communication Platform, development of integrated evidence plans to support launch readiness.
• Drives scientific communication initiatives (both internal and external medical education, data, guidelines and value proposition).

Responsibilities

1. In collaboration with Global Medical teams, Clinical Development, Commercial, Market Access, HEOR and other functional areas, provides leadership, oversight, and support for assigned indications/projects. Works closely with relevant cross-functional, area/affiliate medical teams, to provide strategic input into core asset strategy, and to drive medical activities.
2. Initiates medical affairs activities and generation and dissemination of data supporting overall product scientific and business strategy. Provides relevant scientific and technical training to internal teams globally.
3. Leads functional and cross functional teams responsible for discrete projects within the specific therapeutic area (data analysis, expert engagement, individual publications, study collaborations)
4. Provides scientific and technical support for assigned assets; delivers scientific presentations; develops and maintains professional and credible relationships with key opinion leaders; actively participates in relevant Asset, Development and Pipeline Commercial cross-functional teams and drives the development of medical affairs objectives aligned with strategy.
5. Provides scientific and technical input to inform the development of the Asset Target Product Profiles (TPP). Provides input in design and execution of Phase II-III trial programs including target population and endpoint selection aligned with TPP. Works cross functionally to lead the development of the asset Phase 3b/4 strategy.
6. Leads the development and execution of advisory boards, scientific and medical education programs. Provides scientific/medical education to all relevant internal stakeholders related to therapeutic area or disease specific information.
7. Keeps abreast of professional information and technology through conferences and/or medical literature and acts as a Migraine and specific therapeutic area resource. Initiate research projects and drive them to completion, resulting in high quality publications.
8. Ensures budgets, timelines, compliance requirements are factored into programs' scientific activities.