Director, EMEA Medical Affairs

About Dexcom:

Founded in 1999, Dexcom, Inc. provides continuous glucose monitoring technology to help patients and their clinicians better manage diabetes. Since our inception, we have focused on better outcomes for patients, caregivers, and clinicians by delivering solutions for people with diabetes - while empowering our community to take control of diabetes.

Summary:

This is a leadership position with high visibility and responsibilities in an international environment. This position will serve as the primary liaison between Dexcom EMEA and clinicians, clinical researchers, trials investigators and Key Opinion Leaders globally. The position of Director, EMEA Medical Affairs will lead a team focused on fostering a spirit of collaboration, development, investigation, research and support throughout the global clinical diabetes communities, enhancing and reflecting Dexcom's leadership position in Continuous Glucose Monitoring.

This position will support Dexcom's international marketing and educational outreach, to expand awareness of CGM technologies globally as appropriate. Support will include interaction with payer groups, review of health economics data, and project development to further incorporate goals while supporting clinical initiatives. Close interaction with EMEA leadership, the Global Access Team, Global Professional Education, local and Regional Sales, Marketing, Regulatory, Legal and US Clinical Affairs colleagues will be required to ensure cross-function alignment and parallel clinical initiatives that drive corporate goals and category leadership.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Communicate with and support local external investigators to foster recognition of opportunities to improve patient care within the unique local environment.
• Support development of internal and external studies, raising awareness of CGM and its applications within the individualised health system, while advancing the clinical science of CGM.
• Facilitate and cultivate relationships within localised clinical communities; develop local champions through collaborative efforts involving clinical trials.
• Build and strengthen relationships with KOLs, major organisations and professional societies; effectively communicate information related to recent clinical trials, scientific advances, and economic modeling to international key opinion leaders
• Work collaboratively with Global Professional Education and Global Marketing to grow clinic CGM awareness and clinician champions as appropriate.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on real-time use of CGM in the professional and personal environment for the EMEA team
• Provide clinically significant guidance and support related to study design and protocols for both internal and external studies
• Generate abstracts and manuscripts; support manuscript development by external investigators
• Perform presentations at scientific and clinical meetings in support of both Clinical Affair and Global Marketing
• Integrate activities of Clinical, Operations, R&D, Marketing and Legal to support international trials development
• Manage EMEA publication steering committee in close relationship with US Publications and Podium presentation planning.
• Support EMEA Clinical Affairs in protocol review, data interpretation, site visits, study site training, and other activities as required
• Lead development of SOP for clinical trials contracting, IIS agreements and appropriate regulatory process to reflect unique EMEA requirements
• Strategic development of a small EMEA focused clinical team to deploy key market clinical initiatives and trials to drive competitive superiority and CGM awareness around Dexcom technology.
• Recruit, develop and lead a localised clinical support team with an awareness of market variations, needs and potential to support EMEA market research and development.
• Develop, review, support and revise Standard Operating Procedures for clinical trial support, health care provider engagement in the international space.
• Responsible for ensuring that department understands and complies with quality standards and requirements as documented.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge and extensive experience in the fields of diabetes generally, and use of CGM specifically, is strongly recommended.
• Previous experience in conducting or managing clinical trials is highly desirable.
• Working knowledge of clinical trial processes is essential.

Education Requirements:

• Doctoral level degree (MD, PhD or equivalent required with a CDE preferred);

Travel Required:

• 25 - 49%