Showing posts with label CSO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CSO. Show all posts

Thursday, February 25, 2010

CSO Medical Affairs Director


What's a CSO? Commercial Solutions Organization (CSO)

Innovex is an example of a CSO and here's a job description that you'll find if you visit the "careers" section on the Quintiles website. Or, you could just click on this link to get right to this specific job post.
Job Description 
Medical Affairs Director, 6315-0904554


Description

Innovex is the world's leading commercial solutions organization (CSO), providing our pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device customers with innovative commercialization options, including high quality sales and medical support teams, and the flexibility that is required in today's unpredictable marketplace.
We are excited to announce that at this time we are looking for a Medical Affairs Director to join our team of over 25,000 professionals around the world, supporting several pharmaceutical and biotech clients.   In this role, the successful candidate will be providing US medical support to Biovitrum, a global specialty biopharmaceutical company, as they expand to the US market.   Biovitrum recently acquired global rights to three products and is now developing strategic and operational plans that will maximize the value of these newly acquired assets.   The right candidate will have the potential to join Biovitrum as a member of the senior leadership team at the end of contract. 
Medical Affairs Director
The Medical Affairs Director will provide all medical functions including interacting with key opinion leaders (KOLs), key customers and Medical Directors of major payer organizations, regulatory and healthcare coverage organizations, and collaborating on the development of  company strategy in all medical and clinical research efforts for scientific publications, product investigations (e.g., Investigator Initiated Studies) and regulatory submissions.  The Director will serve as a medical/scientific brand expert while facilitating the development of, execution of, or driving support for scientific/educational strategies and tactics such as clinical and disease area publications, advisory boards, slide libraries, advocacy development, review of product advertising and promotional materials, and professional/continuing education programs.  The position will also provide support and training to field based personnel such as Medical Science Liaisons and will work closely with Medical Affairs, Clinical and Global Brand Management colleagues in Sweden. This position reports directly to the Commercial Director, North America with informal reporting to the Scientific Communication Director based in Sweden.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Meet some industry Chief Scientific Officers


Would you like to meet some Chief Scientific Officers (CSOs)? What exactly does a CSO do? They keyword here is "strategy." Are you able to integrate scientific strategy with business strategy and communicate things clearly to both internal and external stakeholders? These CSOs are very powerful people in the world of pharma.

According to a recent article on PharmaVOICE, the Chief Scientific Officer "helps set a company's strategy, interacts with investors and board of directors, and helps people understand the science behind new products." It's really a combination of public relations (PR) both externally and internally. They need strong corporate leadership skills that includes a considerable amount of ownership and strategy development.

So who are some of these industry CSOs?
  • Julian Adams, PhD (Infinity Pharmaceuticals)
  • Joseph Bolen, PhD (Millennium, the Takeda Oncology Company)
  • Charles Cantor, PhD (Sequenom)
  • Timothy Clackson, PhD (Ariad Pharmaceuticals)
  • Kevin Judice, PhD (Achaogen)
  • Ruther McKernan, PhD (Pfizer Regenerative Medicine)
  • Martin Petkovich, PhD (Cytochroma)
  • Barry Polisky, PhD (MDRNA)
  • Jasbir Seehra, PhD (Acceleron Pharma)
  • Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD (Genentech)
To view the PharmaVOICE article and to meet these CSOs, click here (will open as a PDF).