Senior Director, Global Epidemiology

Role Overview

• Identified as an Epidemiology subject matter expert, able to provide consultation as an internal epidemiology subject matter authority to other departments and responsible for developing epidemiology strategy and leadership among cross-functional project teams, to mitigate risk and achieve success, across the portfolio of Ultragenyx programs globally
• Identify evidence gaps to inform strategic planning and lead development of new evidence strategies to increase understanding of target patient populations of UGX programs and lead development of new evidence generation strategies to achieve market access across global target patient populations of UGX programs
• Lead development of new evidence strategies to increase understanding of target patient populations of UGX programs, including robust epidemiologic indicators such as incidence and prevalence of disease, disease risk factors and morbidity & mortality. Assessing patient populations for new program opportunities via business development and helping to craft our external communications.
• Provide relevant input into clinical development plans, integrated evidence generation plans, regulatory documents with accuracy and scientific integrity, generate content and direction for business development proposals on projects
• Proactively partners across UGX to collaborate and demonstrate cross-functional leadership across the organization to facilitate alignment around key epidemiologic indicators, building partnerships with drug safety and pharmacovigilance facilitate
• Identifies & leads cross functional teams for external collaborative observational research partnerships from project inception thru publication(s) and presentation(s)
• Provide leadership through influencing without authority across project teams, internally and externally, can identify & lead cross functional teams for external collaborative research partnerships from project inception thru publication(s) and presentation(s)
• Represent Ultragenyx as Global Epidemiology subject matter expert at external professional, scientific meetings and forums

Requirements

• BA/BS in the Life Sciences, Public Health, Epidemiology or Health Economics AND MA/MS in the Life Sciences, Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Economics or Pharmacy;
• Prefer advanced degree in the life sciences (PharmD, PhD, MD)
• 12 + years of relevant experience in biopharmaceutical industry, with epidemiology
• Clinical background/research experience preferred
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with the ability to work well in a multidisciplinary team and across the matrix.
• Experience in epidemiological research activities including study design, data management and analysis, with experience in analysis of large data assets, de novo evidence generation, input into clinical trial design & analysis and evidence
• based synthesis from literature.
• Effective communication of epidemiological strategy and findings, both written and verbal, is required.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently, to develop credibility with colleagues, and to influence decisions with excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with the ability to work well in a multidisciplinary team and across the matrix.
• Strong technical expertise in epidemiology principles, and knowledge of analytical applications, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of, and the ability to interpret, quantitative methods is required, with a working knowledge of statistical analysis software (SAS, STATA, R).
• Experience in strategic planning and project management, with proficiency in working cross-cultural/global teams
• Rare Disease and Global experience preferred
• Travel: approximate 10-25%.

Benefits

• Generous vacation time and public holidays observed by the company
• Volunteer days
• Long term incentive and Employee stock purchase plans or equivalent offerings
• Employee wellbeing benefits
• Fitness reimbursement
• Tuition sponsoring
• Professional development plans