Senior Medical Director, Oncology Asset Development Team (Rahway)

MSD
Rahway, NJ

Job Description

Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us. Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of an individual like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, youll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.

The Senior Clinical Director (Sr. Principal Scientist) has primary responsibility for the planning and directing clinical research activities involving new Oncology medicines within an Asset team. Our Company's Oncology medicines span all phases of clinical development (pre-clinical to post-licensure). The Senior Director will manage the entire cycle of clinical development, including: study design, placement, monitoring, analysis, regulatory reporting, and publication.

Specifically, the Senior Director may be responsible for:

  • Providing scientific and medical leadership for strategic alliances and Co-partnership opportunities.

  • Supporting the team in prioritizing external collaborations. Recognize and capitalize on opportunities to adapt direction in light of project successes and failures and market changes.

  • Managing selected opportunities, developing strategy and detailed milestones, measures, timelines and budgets to achieve designated value inflection points.

  • Identifying, negotiating and maintaining critical external partnerships.

  • Evaluating pre-clinical and translational work for the purpose of generating early clinical development plan and Investigational New Drug applications;

  • Developing clinical development strategies for investigational or marketed Oncology drugs

  • Planning clinical trials (design, operational plans, settings) based on these clinical development strategies

  • Monitoring and managing the conduct of ongoing or new clinical trials for investigational or marketed Oncology drugs;

  • Analyzing and summarizing the clinical findings from studies to support decisions regarding safety and efficacy as well as new drug applications, clinical study reports, or publication; and

  • Participating in internal and joint internal/external research project teams relevant to the development of new compounds and combinations of these with marketed compounds.

In executing these duties, the Senior Director may:

  • Supervise the activities of Clinical Scientists in the execution of clinical studies

  • Work closely with a cross-functional group of experts in commercialization, regulatory affairs, statistics, and manufacturing to manage clinical development projects; and

  • Assist the Executive Director/Associate Vice President in ensuring that appropriate corporate personnel are informed of the progress of studies of our company's and competitors' drugs and internal and external expert opinion on scientific questions relevant to his/her areas of responsibility.

The Senior Director is responsible for maintaining a strong scientific fund of knowledge by:

  • Maintaining awareness of scientific developments within his/her area of expertise, in terms of new scientific findings, research methodologies

  • Identification of scientifically and operationally strong investigators who can assist in the development of our company's investigational and marketed drugs

  • Establishing communications with prominent clinical investigators in his/her particular field of interest, particularly those who will be willing and able to assist in the evaluation of our company's drugs

  • Attending appropriate scientific meetings to maintain his or her competency and to maintain awareness of research activities in his/her area of responsibility.

To accomplish these goals, the Senior Director may:

  • Author detailed development documents, presentations, budgets, and position papers for internal and external audiences

  • Manage a complex matrix of internal stakeholders within clinical development (i.e. across existing PDTs and TAs) and across functions

  • Facilitate collaborations with external researchers around the world

  • Travel on company business about twenty (20) percent of the time to manage future or ongoing clinical research projects.

Education:

  • Required: M.D or M.D./PhD combination

  • Board Certified or Eligible in Medical Oncology (and/or Hematology), Radiation Oncology, Surgical Oncology or a related discipline is preferred. An equivalent combination of training and experience will be considered.

Required:

  • Must have experience in industry or senior faculty in academia

  • Minimum of 3 years of clinical medicine experience

  • Minimum of 1 year of industry experience in drug development or biomedical research experience in academia

  • Demonstrated record of scientific scholarship and achievement

  • A proven track record in clinical medicine and background in biomedical research

  • Strong interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to function in a team environment are essential.

  • High level of verbal and written communication, including presentation skills.

  • Strong learning agility and growth mindset

Current Employees apply HERE

Current Contingent Workers apply HERE

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.

As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one anothers thinking and approach problems collectively.

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.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as remote.

The salary range for this role is

$276,600.00 - $435,400.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employees position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at .

You can apply for this role through (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance

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Posted 2025-08-23

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