Associate Dir/Medical Director

PPD’s mission is to improve health. It starts as an idea to cure. It becomes a life saved. All in-between, it’s you! We know that meaningful results not only require the right approach, but also the right people. We invite you to re-imagine health promoting protocols with us, working alongside our talented, bright and energetic teams.

Due to continued growth, PPD is now looking to appoint an Associate Medical Director/Medical Director, Pulmonary/Critical Care, to join our team of Medical Directors in North America. This role can be office-based or home based.

The Associate Medical Director/Medical Director will be responsible for providing medical support and medical advice for clinical trials and safety evaluation within the PPD Pharmacovigilance department.

Essential Functions:

• Medical review of individual case safety reports, serious adverse event reports and clinical outcome reports.
• Discussing with clients, investigators and healthcare professionals of medical issues in the pre and post approval services by using proper medical judgment, interpretation and decision.
• Present PPD standard medical safety processes to clients at business development meetings and communicate with various medical communities to explore and expand PPD business.
• Participate in training of project teams.
• Provide study, project and program-specific medical monitoring and review services, including but not restricted to:
• Provide medical consultation to team members and answer study related medical questions. Communicate clearly with associates and clients, maintaining and open line of communication to ensure all procedures are followed appropriately
• Provide therapeutic and protocol training as needed.
• Managing of all medical aspects of contracted tasks. Monitoring of safety variables.
• Analysis and assessment of safety data to identify and manage emerging safety signals.
• Assist in Business Development activities
• Write, review and approve reports, regulatory submissions and protocols, ensuring that the medical content is accurate and complete.

This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced MD with Pulmonary and/or Critical Care experience to join an industry-leading organization that offers excellent prospects and growth and development.

Education & Qualifications

• Strong communication & presentation skills and is a strong team player
• Is fluent in spoken and written English
• Solid understanding of regulatory guidelines for adverse event reporting
• Employees hired in this role may be assigned to a US government contract and if so would be subject to COVID-19 vaccination and reporting requirements
• Significant experience within pharmaceutical industry, clinical trials or pharmaceutical medicine is beneficial
• MD, MB/BS or equivalent degree and strong medical knowledge, proven clinical experience managing Pulmonary/Critical Care patients in hospital practice

At PPD we hire the best, develop ourselves and each other, and recognize the power of being one team. We understand that you will want to grow both professionally and personally throughout your career, and therefore at PPD you will benefit from an award-winning learning and development program, ensuring you reach your potential.

- We have a strong will to win - We earn our customer’s trust - We are gamechangers - We do the right thing -We are one PPD -

If you resonate with our five principles above, and ultimately wish to accelerate the delivery of safe and effective therapeutics for some of the world’s most urgent health needs, then please submit your application – we’d love to hear from you.

The salary range estimated for this position is $200,000 - $275,000**. This position will also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. Actual compensation will be confirmed in writing at the time of offer.

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our US colleagues and their families can count on, which generally includes:

• A wellness program, and valuable health incentive opportunities for company contributions to a Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) or Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Tax-advantaged savings and spending accounts and commuter benefits
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan
• Paid Time Off, 10 paid holidays annually, 8 hours of volunteer time, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, short- and long-term disability, and volunteer time off in accordance with company policy
• Employee assistance program