# Medical Director (Psychiatry)

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

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## Description

As a Medical Director at ICON's Strategic Solutions in Blue Bell, US, you will drive medical initiatives within project teams, guiding strategic direction and decision-making processes, and offer expert medical and scientific guidance, leveraging therapeutic expertise to inform project development.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as the Global Clinical Lead and Medical Monitor for one or more studies, including participation on the clinical sub-teams of those programs.

- Contribute directly to the authoring of protocols, clinical study reports, study documents, regulatory documents, and external publications.

- Provide medical review of clinical trial data and medical monitoring of clinical trials.

- Interact with senior management regarding data presentations, trial updates, and discussions of executional and strategic development issues.

- Contribute to strategic discussions related to clinical development plans and indication prioritization.

- In collaboration with Clinical Operations, oversee and coordinate the operational aspects of ongoing projects to ensure time, cost, and quality objectives are met.

- Ensure Clinical Development Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) facilitate effective clinical research programs and comply with clinical, medical, and industry standards.

- Review and contribute to regulatory documents and regulatory interactions as needed.

Your Profile:

- MD with residency training in Psychiatry and extensive drug development experience in psychiatry, including Phase I–III clinical development in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and major depressive disorder.

- Five or more years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry in a Clinical Development role as a Medical Director.

- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with experience interacting with and presenting to senior management and external audiences.

- Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity in a highly matrixed work environment.

- Strong leadership and collaborative interpersonal skills.

- Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks effectively, and meet expected timelines.

- Ability to perform thorough reviews of medical and clinical trial-related documents in a timely manner.

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
- Psychiatry
- Clinical Development
- Medical Monitoring
- Regulatory Documents

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