Medical Director - Sleep Disorders, EMEA

ThermoFisher Scientific; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a Medical Director to provide medical leadership for clinical trials within the Pharmacovigilance portfolio. You will contribute to protocol development, safety evaluation, and real-time monitoring of studies across multiple sites.

The role requires a Medical Doctor with neurology and sleep disorders expertise, strong English skills, and experience with regulatory submissions and PIPs. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in pharmaceutical industry and clinical trials.
• Knowledge of NDA submission process.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).
• Understanding of regulatory guidelines for adverse event reporting.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with pediatric investigation plans (PIPs).

Responsibilities

• Provide medical leadership to study teams and contribute to protocol development and amendments.
• Real-time medical monitoring of clinical studies and ensuring patient safety.
• Serve as liaison between sponsor and internal departments across study phases.
• Educate sites with protocol-specific procedures during investigator meetings.
• Interact with investigators, IRBs, and health authorities as needed.
• Ensure study compliance with SOPs and GCP.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to clarify medical risks and study results.

Skills

Pharma industry experience

Clinical trials

NDA submission knowledge

PIPs

English fluency

Regulatory guidelines

Communication & presentation

Education

Medical Doctor, Neurology with sleep disorders

Job description

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Join Us as a Medical Director – Make an Impact at the Forefront of Innovation

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Discover Impactful Work:

The Medical Director will provide medical support and medical advice for clinical trials and safety evaluation within the PPD Pharmacovigilance department.

A day in the Life:

• Provide medical leadership to the study teams, including creating clinical trial protocols while implementing the latest scientific information, contribute to site selection, involved in review and approval of study protocols and amendments, Clinical Study Reports (CSRs), Informed Consent Forms (ICFs), Case Report Forms (CRFs), protocol deviation decisions and other clinical documents as required for the conduct of clinical trials


• Real time Medical Monitoring of clinical studies: ensure medical validity of each individual primary endpoint as well study subject safety, while ensuring medical issues are identified early. Pro-active customer concern and correction of issues in consultation with the Global Medical Indication Lead


• During initial review of protocol, consults with internal groups and support staff regarding procedural and budgetary items and the necessity for change due to any subsequent protocol amendments. Acquires other functions' dedication to close gaps and address issues timely and effectively. Serves as chief liaison between sponsor and all PPD internal departments performing the required tasks during all study phases. Educates Investigator sites by delivering a protocol specific lab procedures presentation and demonstration during an investigator meeting. Controls, handles and follows day to day activities during the course of the clinical trial to resolve any issues and answer queries


• Medical point of contact for all internal and external stakeholders: Interact with the investigators as needed, answer questions of IRBs and Health Authorities, prepare and present material to the study executive and independent safety committee if applicable; medical training of site staff at Investigator meetings; CRA training in new indications


• Ensure study compliance for all medical aspects by understanding and applying all relevant SOPs and GCP


• Closely collaborate with the cross functional study team members in order for medical risks, issues, and results to be clear to all involved parties

Education

• Medical Doctor, with a specialty in Neurology with focus in Sleep disorders, shown clinical experience running patients with Sleep disorders in hospital practice

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Significant experience within pharmaceutical industry, clinical trials and pharmaceutical medicine is critically important


• Solid experience with PIPs (pediatric investigation plan)


• Is fluent in spoken and written English


• Shown understanding and experience with NDA submission process.


• Shown understanding of regulatory guidelines for adverse event reporting


• Strong communication & presentation skills and is a strong teammate

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.