Senior Manager Medical Evidence Strategy

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

​Research & Development​

In Research and Development, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

The Senior Manager, Evidence Strategy and Engagement will be part of the Clinical Research team and provides strategic and operational medical and scientific expertise to our evidence generation activities, including but not limited to clinical studies – working hand in hand with the Category Management Teams and specifically the Medical Science Leads. The role supports the design, intepretation and cascade of the evidence generation plans and outputs to key stakeholders globally and across the geographies of US, Europe and Emerging Markets.This role will help determine how to meet the needs by evolving evidence generation to consider a broad range of clinical strategies and methods to improve patient outcomes including RWE health economics and outcomes research. The role will help to balance innovative methods with risk across the portfolios by aligning the correct strategy for the business need. 

 

Your responsibilities

- To oversee ethical, effective and efficient evidence generation strategies across categories as part of the CRP team to support scientific insight, claims, approvals, ap-propriate regulatory classification and the support of both safety and efficacy
- To provide medical, clinical and ethical guidance, input and support for conducting and reporting of human subject research across all the Reckitt studies (including medicines, medical devices, cosmetics and other products along with all other human studies as part of the clinical evaluation phases I-IV), while evaluating overall rationale and justification for study benefit/risk as part of the Scientific Review Committee
- To define (with marketing and medical science col-leagues) the Standards of Care across appropriate categories and to determine evidence generation requirements / gaps
- To define and implement optimal evidence generation processes and best practices, ensuring Target Product Profiles and Target Product Claims are in place and sup-ported by appropriate methodologies
- To help identify through gap analysis the evidence requirements for key products in order to best understand, articulate and promote the brands
- Lead the integrated evidence generation planning process to enhance compliant cross-functional collaboration, delivering fit for purpose evidence strategies and projects
- Provide strategic guidance to appropriate priority evidence generation activities in conjunction with category medical affairs leads to ensure holistic thinking and to meet category and business goals.
- Identify evidence gaps through deep knowledge of physician, patient, and payer needs
- Guide clinical methodologies into evidence strategies to maximise business benefit whilst minimising risk to the overall program
- Drive the communication and cascade of evidence out-comes in conjunction with category medical affairs leads to key global and area stakeholders, delivering appropriate targeted training
- Work with scientific comms team to inform abstract, manuscripts and presentation for external meetings and clinical sections of regulatory documents.
- Participates in the organization, coordination and execution, as required, of internal SRC meetings and external medical/scientific meetings, Investigator Meetings and clinical/scientific advisory board meetings
- To ensure effective delivery of the evidence and clinical strategies for the business, advising on opportunities and priorities in collaboration with other technical functions
- Managing key interfaces with other disciplines within and external to the business including Medical Marketing, Global Medical and Regulatory Affairs and the Global Marketing Function (internally) and professional bodies and Clinical KOL networks (externally).

The experience we're looking for

- Medical Degree, preferably PhD or further qualification
- Significant clinical practice experience and a deep understanding of patients, health outcomes and health system provision
- Clinical research and study design experience
- Significant experience in Medical Affairs preferably for OTC products
- Experience of managing KOL relationships or experience of being a KOL
- Proven scientific communication experience (written and verbal) with scientific and non-scientific audiences
- Experience in training and education
- Experience of working with other healthcare businesses such as pharmaceuticals or devices
- Deep understanding of medical and pharmaceutical aspects of OTC products
- Good understanding of regulatory affairs
- Clinical trial design and conduct
- A proven ability to understand, interpret and communicate scientific data is essential
- Experience of working with other types of products such as Medical devices, Personal care products.
- Strong communication skills and proven stakeholder management experience
- Solution oriented, taking ownership of tasks and projects.
- Independent working style

The skills for success

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What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.