Regional Medical Director, Specialties Latam

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**Regional Medical Lead, Specialties LATAM** - Part of the LATAM Hub Medical Lead Team with scope for Mexico and Colombia. This role is heavily involved in influencing strategy and investments across portfolio, Industry & healthcare leadership. They will be accelerating Life Science Vision in key therapeutic areas to ensure Lilly is viewed as a partner of choice across Diabetes and Obesity.

As our Regional Medical Lead, Mexico & Colombia you will drive transformation, strategic planning and thought leader engagement while overseeing the clinical research and overall medical support activities of the function.

This Regional Medical Lead position provides leadership, vision and direction, supervision, coordination, mentoring, career development, and performance management for all activities and individuals that directly report to them within the Mexico & Colombia Medical Affairs and as well as the entire team of MSLs of Colombia.

The Regional Medical Lead, Mexico & Colombia has review responsibilities and approval authority for grants and contracts, label changes, protocols and protocol amendments, informed consent documents, travel authorizations, expense reports, and other documents related to the work of the therapeutic area group within Mexico & Colombia of the therapeutic areas under scope. They will also ensure that all activities of the medical team are in compliance with current local and international regulations, laws, guidance (e.g. FDA, ICH, and CPMP etc.), Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), company standards, Lilly policies and procedures, and the Principles of Medical Research.

Key Responsibilities:
Strategy, Influence and Direction
- Influencing and developing strategy and investment across portfolio, industry and healthcare leadership
- Responsible for medical transformation in line with therapeutic area needs and organizational model for Mexico & Colombia
- Builds key capabilities to deliver the portfolio and attracts and retains the best talent.

Career Development and Performance Management of direct reports
- Performance management, career and development plans.
- Maximizes each individual direct report’s career potential, maximizing the value to the organization.
- Responsible for presenting the activities, desires, capabilities, and achievements of direct reports to the business area medical management and leaders, HR, and Global Medical Strategy and Development department for talent assessment, performance evaluation, and timely promotion consideration.
- Ensures that CRP/Ss, other direct reports are adequately qualified and trained in the tasks they are required to perform. Includes accountability and compliance for maintaining a current curriculum training map for self and direct reports.

Oversight of clinical planning, budgeting, and execution
- Responsible for affiliate/geographic evaluation and input into clinical planning and contribution to clinical trials and communicates research needs to global Development team, GHO, and PRA teams to ensure Phase 3, 3b, and 4 clinical (and Phase I and II where applicable) programs meet the needs of local/regional customers.
- Responsible for the local/regional clinical planning process for each brand team associated with the business area/therapeutic area, to assure that plans are appropriately aligned with and support brand, affiliate, business area, and company strategies and are completed on time for the annual business planning process.
- Ensures medical team meets or exceeds commitments to Development team(s) for planned and agreed upon clinical research.
- Monitors progress toward implementation of the clinical research plans, and takes appropriate steps with the responsible clinical plans management and CRPs/CRSs if progress is not adequate.
- Monitors progress toward implementation of the other deliverables from the medical team (e.g., publications, field support), and takes appropriate steps with the responsible cross-functional management team(s) to ensure progress.
- Responsible for generating, approving, and ensuring the implementation of local support in clinical research studies to meet the business area’s objectives within the resource capabilities.
- Works closely with the business areas management to monitor operational expenses of the group, and take appropriate actions if there are substantial deviations from approved budgets.

Scientific and Technical Expertise
- Role model and fu