# Medical Director, Rheumatology

**Company**: ICON
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

ICON is seeking a Medical Director, Rheumatology to drive medical initiatives within project teams, guiding strategic direction and decision-making processes, and offer expert medical and scientific guidance. The successful candidate will work within a multidisciplinary team to support client deliverables, including grading services for efficacy indices, business development, communication, and training.

Responsibilities:

- Provide input in protocol development/amendment

- Review data to ensure concordance across efficacy assessments

- Perform BILAG and MDAAT grading for each organ system, if applicable

- Train study teams (protocol-specific training on efficacy tools)

- Participate in start-up activities, including site selection and set-up

- Participate in data analysis and close-out activities

- Interact with clients and participate in client meetings as necessary to support and maintain new business

- Participate in developing new and existing business

- Other tasks as needed to assist with project or team needs

Requirements:

- Medical Degree (MD) and formal rheumatology fellowship training & board certification / specialization with Expertise in SLE is preferred

- Extensive experience with global clinical trials is desired

- Substantial CRO, biotech, or pharmaceutical experience, including project leadership and interaction with therapeutic and medical experts

- Ability to present to and train global audiences

- Understanding of clinical data management systems or electronic data capture software (RAVE and eLAS knowledge preferred)

- Demonstrates strong knowledge of computerized information systems and standard application software (Windows, MS Office)

- Performs duties at a high standard with limited supervision

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Willingness to travel up to 10% of your time

Rewards & Benefits:

- Competitive base salary and performance-related incentives

- Health and wellbeing programmes, including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable

- Retirement and pension plans

- Life assurance and disability coverage

- Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources

- Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways

## Skills

### Required
- Medical Degree (MD)
- rheumatology fellowship training
- board certification
- clinical trials
- CRO
- biotech
- pharmaceutical experience
- project leadership
- therapeutic expertise
- medical writing
- communication skills
- Windows
- MS Office

### Nice to have
- formal rheumatology fellowship training
- Expertise in SLE
- global clinical trials
- RAVE
- eLAS

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