Medical Affairs and Translational Research (MATR) Partnership Lead

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Job Function:
Medical Affairs Group

Job Sub Function:
Medical Affairs

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Medical Affairs and Translational Research (MATR) Partnership Lead for J&J Oncology

The MATR Partnership Lead is a key point of contact for medical affairs (regional and global) and translational research for preclinical investigator-initiated study (IIS) proposals, collaborative studies or MAF-funded company-sponsored studies involving key biomarker objectives.

The individual will link internal strategic and tactical workstream(s) supporting research proposal reviews and final decisions for key studies.

MATR partnerships will also include line-of-sight to data read-outs or draft publication timelines for contracted studies to support knowledge exchange between translational research, external research community, clinical and medical affairs.

Tasks for this position include the following:


* Provides subject matter expertise, execution, and process leadership for medical affairs and translational science, preclinical or biomarker research projects


* Works closely with disease area leads on triaging biomarker or preclinical IIS proposals from external researchers or non-clinical collaborative study requests from concept-to-execution.


* Supports key internal and external stakeholder communications, preclinical review agendas and review decisions.


* Leads efforts to capture process metrics & analytics to recommend and implement iterative process improvements


* Partners with oncology translational research lead(s) in preparing biomarker and preclinical "one-pager" strategy for inclusion in worldwide medical affairs evidence generation plans and IIS strategic frameworks


* Liaises with medical affairs Global Review Committee administrator(s), GMAL and translational science lead with respect to new IIS reviews and coordination


* Advances global medical affairs company-sponsored study concepts with key biomarker objectives through internal governance reviews where applicable with Global Head, Evidence Generation and ...