Evidence Strategy Lead - CVRM

Role Summary

As Evidence Strategy Lead in CVRM, you will combine strategy and science to drive research initiatives and generate impactful evidence. You will lead the Evidence Strategy across CVRM disease areas, reporting to the Head of Evidence Strategy for CVRM with a dotted line to disease-area leads and specific assets. You will partner with BPM leaders and cross-functional teams to analyze evidence opportunities and requirements, providing insights and functional expertise to senior stakeholders and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Evidence Strategy for a specific disease area and asset, aligned with the overarching strategy and medical priorities.
• Overall management of the Evidence activities and resources in the applicable DA.
• Study Design & Analytical methods to generate robust scientific evidence to facilitate health care transformation, based on all applicable research methodologies (ranging from pragmatic interventional studies and implementation science to observational studies based on secondary data and utilization of emerging technology and AI).
• Governance procedures for review and approval of medical studies.
• Cross Functional Collaboration to leverage relationships and achievements by diverse and complementary skills and expertise.
• Relationship building with academia, health care professionals/investigators and commercial external service providers.
• Strategic Publication Planning and translation of scientific data to relevant messaging and DA/brand narratives to strengthen the communication with applicable external stakeholders (incl HCPs, Payers, Policy shapers and Patients).

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience of clinical/observational research, drug development process and relevant guidelines (GCP/ICH), preferably from the pharmaceutical industry, ideally including both local and global roles.
• CVRM therapeutic and disease area knowledge.
• Broad knowledge of health care systems and the evolving role of Medical Affairs.
• Persuasive communicator in English, with a proven ability to work collaboratively in a multi-cultural matrix environment.

Education

• Doctoral level degree (PhD/PharmD/MD) or MSc with significant experience (5+ years) of evidence generation in pharma business, CRO or academia.