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Our Company's Oncology organization is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of cancer patients worldwide. Our team of dauntless, forward-thinking individuals achieves this through an unwavering commitment to supporting accessibility to medicine, providing new therapeutic procedures, and collaborating with governments and payers to ensure that people who need medicines have access to them. At our Company, our focus is on innovation and launch execution excellence; we translate breakthrough science into innovative medicines that help people with cancer across the globe.
Working with ADT’s, early- & late-stage clinical development teams, the BMx leads will develop asset-specific clinical biomarker strategy by incorporating critical insight from discovery biology, clinical development, diagnostics, bioinformatics, molecular assay experts, QP2 and BARDS.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Identify asset-specific translational deliverables & gaps. Building testable hypothesis & forming BMx strategy : collaborate across different LFs, to formulate testable clinical and translational hypotheses; and develop clinical biomarker and translational research strategy to test the hypothesis.
- Alignment, risk mitigation & strategy implementation : align with asset development team strategy. Build critical scientific insight to identify gaps and risks, pro-actively develop mitigation plans. Work with matrixed stakeholders to ensure implementation.
- Collaborate with Asset Development Teams, Early Development Teams; Product Development Teams, Clinical Trial Teams, Discovery, Informatics; Diagnostics, quantitative modeling team; Biostats, Molecular Assay teams, and other key LFs to author protocol-specific biomarker plans and ensure their efficient implementation.
- Incorporate cutting edge scientific and technical advances to support clinical developments. Proactively identify and engage external KOL’s on specific hypothesis-driven collaborations to complement internal effort. Drive the publication of biomarker and translational research for respective studies.
- Analysis, interpretation & impact : collaborate with aforementioned line functions to build formal analysis plans, participate in data analysis and interpretation. Effectively communicate the study plan, update and output across different function areas for optimal impact on projects.
- Contribute to Health Authority engagements; Registrational Effort and Post Marketing Commitments.
- The individual is in translational research and biomarker development for our Company's Oncology programs.
- Working with early- and / or late-stage clinical development teams, they will have the opportunity to drive translational research and clinical biomarker development for critical oncology clinical programs.
- The individual will assume a role in a dynamic, cross-functional environment as a key member in early- and / or late-stage development teams and work closely with multiple functional line functions in various scientific and operational aspects of translational research and biomarker development.
Qualifications :
Required :
Preferred :
US and Puerto Rico Residents Only :
Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
U.S. Hybrid Work Model :
Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.
Expected US salary range :
181,600.00 - $285,800.00
Available benefits include : bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days.
Employee Status : Regular
Relocation : Domestic
VISA Sponsorship : No
Travel Requirements : 10%
Flexible Work Arrangements : Hybrid
Shift : 1st - Day
Valid Driving License : No
Hazardous Material(s) : n / a
Job Posting End Date : 01 / 13 / 2025
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Salary : $181,600 - $285,800