What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scientific Affairs Manager position at Axogen?
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Axogen Mission and Business Purpose
Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by making restoration of peripheral nerve function an expected standard of care. We aim to lead the markets we serve by always requiring the solutions we offer patients and caregivers provide an improved benefit-to-risk profile as compared to existing standards of care. To ensure we deliver improved benefit-to-risk solutions, we will guide and expect the market and design requirement specifications underlying our engineering, business development, and clinical research activities, objectively target advancements in standards of care.
Job Summary of the Scientific Affairs Manager
The Scientific Affairs Manager will serve as part of the Medical Affairs Scientific Communications group and will provide scientific leadership to marketing, sales, regulatory, clinical, and new product development. This position will be responsible for representing Medical Affairs on new product development teams, as well as providing ongoing scientific leadership and support for released products. The Scientific Affairs Manager will work in a close team environment with Sales, Marketing, R&D New Product Development, Clinical, Professional Education, and Regulatory Affairs/Quality Assurance.
Requirements of the Scientific Affairs Manager
- Minimum of a bachelor's degree; A relevant postgraduate qualification (PhD/research-based MSc/PharmD)
- Minimum of 5 years industry experience, post-doctoral research and/or practical research/laboratory work experience is beneficial.
- Knowledge of FDA regulations for medical device, human tissue, and biologics is beneficial
- Experienced and knowledgeable about related pre-clinical models and
- Skilled and experienced in experimental study design and data
- Knowledge of scientific approach and
- Knowledge of current technological developments/trends in area of
- Knowledge of scientific research principles, practices, and
- Ability to design, organize, and coordinate projects, especially literature
- Ability to work with cross-functional
- Strong preference will be given to candidates with experience in the peripheral nerve space and to those with experience with paradigm changing technologies.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to accurately rely on a compelling value proposition for Axogen's portfolio of nerve repair products.
- Ability to transfer knowledge to others and coach them to achieve
- Pleasant, professional, and proactive self-starter who enjoys being part of a fast moving and growing
- Willing and able to travel domestically, up to 50% of the time to respond to the needs of the customers and
- Ability to establish and maintain good working
- Self-directed, organized and goal
- Proficiency with MS Office Applications including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint is
Responsibilities of the Scientific Affairs Manager
The specific duties of the Scientific Affairs Manager include but are not limited to:
- Provides scientific leadership for the company through the generation and maintenance of scientific messaging platforms for all Axogen technologies and clinical applications.
- Provides scientific leadership and delivers expert scientific recommendations for the brand team by partnering with the brand managers in the planning and development of marketing materials and activities.
- Educates the medical and marketing teams by identifying new published data for a specific product - via congresses, peer-to-peer discussions, literature alerts – and disseminating them to the teams.
- Reviews and approves promotional and non-promotional material to ensure scientific accuracy and adherence to scientific messaging platforms.
- Leads medical affairs projects and activities such as: delivery of educational symposia, creation of sales training material, training of sales force, and internal department training through regular journal club meetings and other trainings as necessary.
- Supports handling of product inquiries from
- Leads the pre-clinical research grant committee and serves as the main scientific
- Responsible for clinical literature surveillance for articles related to our products and quarterly updates to the clinical bibliography.
- Responsible for Pharmacovigilance activities related to clinical literature
- Leads the Medical Affairs portion of the annual CER
- Leads the clinical literature review/SOTA creation process for new products
- Serves as the scientific lead in the planning stage of new marketing projects providing scientific expertise and value during scoping of specific activities.
- Attends scientific meetings and congresses to enhance expertise and shares insights with sales and other stakeholders to support business needs.
- Provides insights about our products following peer-to-peer discussions with healthcare professionals (HCPs)
Location
13631 Progress Blvd., Alachua, FL 32615
OR
111 West Oak Ave., Tampa, FL 33602
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Benefits/Compensation
Axogen follows healthcare system guidelines with respect to credentialing, vaccinations and other employment/compliance related requirements, as well as CDC guidance. Axogen reserves the right to amend its policies from time to time in its sole discretion.
