Medical Director, Endocrinology

Parexel’s endocrinology team brings deep expertise across the full clinical spectrum—from rare metabolic disorders to programs in obesity and diabetes.

We are excited to be expanding our team in Canada, offering a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research that is shaping the future of patient care.

We currently have an exciting opportunity available for an Associate/Medical Director/Senior Medical Director, Endocrinology to join our exceptionally talented and patient focused General Medicine team.

Key Accountabilities

As a Medical Director, you will provide medical monitoring for assigned projects, function as medical representative on the project team, provide medical consultation as required or requested to client/sponsor or to other Parexel service groups, and assume the role of Senior Technical Lead in selected circumstances.

In addition, you will also:

• Review all individual adverse experience reports for accuracy and clinical importance, and characterize their relationship to the study drug, severity and seriousness.

• Provide reports to FDA or other regulatory agencies and the sponsor on a periodic and regular basis, summarizing adverse experiences as required by FDA or the sponsor, depending on the contract.

• Review data listings of safety data, including adverse experiences, laboratory data, and vital signs data, to establish the presence or absence of abnormal trends, and if noted, follow up as appropriate with the project team, sponsor, investigator, and FDA.

• Review documents written by various Parexel divisions for safety issues.

• Review coding of adverse events and concomitant medications for accuracy and consistency.

• Provide support for the preparation of clinical protocols, integrated clinical and statistical summary reports, journal articles, and other documents for clients/sponsors or in conjunction with clients/sponsors and in conjunction with other Parexel divisions.

• Attend and present material, as requested, at meetings within Parexel as well as extra-company external meetings and conferences.

Education, Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

Successful applicants will:

• be a MD Endocrinologist with FRCPC certification (or equivalent international credential)

• have extensive clinical experience treating adult patients with Obesity, MASH/NASH, and Diabetes is highly preferred.

Past experience as a Physician in Industry or as a Clinical Trial Primary Investigator or Sub-Investigator is highly preferred; however, consideration will be given to exceptional candidates with an interest in transitioning to Industry. (Candidate experience will determine Associate Medical Director, Medical Director or a Senior Medical Director role). 

Successful applicants will also have:

• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to interact well with sponsor/client counterparts.

• Excellent time management skills

• Excellent verbal and written medical communication skills.

• Excellent standard of written and spoken English

• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning

• The ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail.

• A willingness to work in a matrix environment and to value the importance of teamwork.

• The ability to travel up to 20% domestically and/or internationally as needed.

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