Group Leader – Senior Director, Quantitative Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics
MSD
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Rahway • California • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $210,400 - $331,100 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Leading a team of up to 4 QP2 scientists including people management, scientific and operational oversight
- Leveraging end-to-end drug discovery/development and disease area expertise to independently provide day-to-day scientific oversight to individual contributors
- Setting priorities for direct reports and driving performance management, hiring and retention, staff development and training
- Serving as an expert representative for QP2 on discovery and drug development teams and engaging in cross-functional and governance discussions
- Maintaining a comprehensive understanding of global regulatory expectations for small molecules and biologics
- Developing and applying mechanistic, disease progression and comparator modeling platforms to help drive portfolio decisions
- In partnership with Executive Director of CMD, identify resource needs and contributes to resource allocation internally
Requirements
- Ph.D./PharmD or equivalent degree with at least 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical drug development or regulatory
- Educational background in biopharmaceutics, pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacometrics, chemical/biomedical engineering, mathematics, statistics/biostatistics, computational biology/chemistry, or a related field
- Extensive experience in developing quantitative strategies for impacting pipeline decisions and drug development expertise
- Demonstrated ability to lead an interdisciplinary team or taskforce, and/or to oversee the work of others
- Relevant regulatory and quantitative pharmacology experience
- Proficiency in written and verbal communication, interdisciplinary collaboration, and problem scoping and planning
- Expert skills in performing population PK/PKPD analyses using standard pharmacometrics software (e.g. NONMEM, R, Monolix, Phoenix, etc.)
- Scientific understanding of biopharmaceutical and ADME properties across modalities
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- retirement benefits, including 401(k)
- paid holidays
- vacation
- compassionate and sick days
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
pharmaceutical drug developmentregulatory compliancequantitative strategiespopulation PK/PKPD analysesbiopharmaceuticspharmacometric modelingmechanistic modelingdisease progression modelingcomparative modelingdata analysis
Soft Skills
people managementperformance managementstaff developmentinterdisciplinary collaborationproblem solvingcommunicationleadershipoperational oversightresource allocationtraining
Certifications
Ph.D.PharmD