# Medical Director **Company**: Fortrea **Location**: Tokyo **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://fortrea.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Fortrea/job/Tokyo/Senior-Medical-Director_264768?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_3de823d9-c60 ## Description We are seeking a Medical Director to provide medical direction for the conduct of early clinical trials. As a Medical Director, you will be responsible for supporting the development activities of proposed and ongoing projects in your area of expertise, as well as medical monitoring assigned clinical studies. **Summary of Responsibilities:** - Contributes to the development of company policies involving medical, safety, and therapeutics - Participates in process improvement activities across Fortrea - Performs other duties as assigned - Partners with GCO to develop new and enhance existing client relationships where possible - Provides medical/scientific capabilities to clients as a participant of a proposal team - Performs site/investigator feasibility, builds relationships with investigators to support optimal recruiting and conduct of trials - Supports and participates in the recruitment process for department positions - Provides leadership to junior staff within clinical pharmacology - Participates and leads initiatives that serve the physicians within clinical pharmacology - Develops training modules and materials and provides training in disease states and protocol specific requirements across Fortrea - Participates in training opportunities to advance knowledge of drug development and good clinical practice guidelines - Serves as global lead project physician - Performs medical data review – reviews laboratory values, adverse events, coding dictionaries and data tables, listings and figures as needed - Develops, reviews and revises protocol, case report forms, training material, project specific tools, analysis plans design, clinical trial reports and new drug applications - Prepares materials for investigator meetings and site initiation visits - Actively participates in investigator meetings and site initiation visits - Provides medical/scientific expertise to project teams - Responsible for medical and safety monitoring on assigned projects - Interacts with interdepartmental and external consultants as appropriate - Participates in feasibility discussions relating to specific project proposals - Participates in project risk assessment activities - Assists when needed with data safety monitoring board activities - Provides clinical and medical expertise to other Fortrea departments **Qualifications (Minimum Required):** - MD Degree - Fortrea may consider relevant and equivalent experience in lieu of educational requirements - Ability to drive projects outside of medical perspective - Problem solving ability - Sees issues outside of own remit and is able to escalate **Experience (Minimum Required):** - A minimum of 3-5 years of experience with substantial knowledge of drug development and extensive clinical research experience within the pharmaceutical/CRO industry in a specific therapeutic area **Physical Demands/Work Environment:** - Overtime and weekend work as required - Varied hours may be required - Occasional drives to site locations, occasional domestic travel - Work is performed in a laboratory and/or a clinical environment with exposure to electrical office equipment - Personal protective equipment required such as protective eyewear, garments, and gloves - Exposure to biological fluids - Ability to work in an upright and /or stationary position for 6-8 hours per day - Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists to operate lab equipment ## Skills ### Required - MD Degree - clinical research - drug development - medical monitoring --- Source: [Apply at fortrea.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://fortrea.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Fortrea/job/Tokyo/Senior-Medical-Director_264768?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)