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$203k–$253k/yr
Full-time
postgraduate degree
Bonus, Stock, Benefits
Posted 16d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
The Director of Medical Information will architect and scale the medical information infrastructure to support commercial launch readiness and ongoing scientific excellence. This role involves managing call center vendors, overseeing scientific content development, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure compliant and high-quality interactions.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a doctoral degree in a health science discipline such as PharmD, PhD, or MD. A minimum of 8 years of experience in medical information within the pharmaceutical or biotech industry is required, with a strong preference for oncology experience.
Full job description
About Summit:
Summit Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical oncology company with a mission focused on improving quality of life, increasing potential duration of life, and resolving serious unmet medical needs. At Summit, we believe in building a team of world class professionals who are passionate about this mission, and it is our people who drive this mission to reality. Summit’s core values include integrity, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, collaboration, and our commitment to people. Our employees are truly the heart and soul of our culture, and they are invaluable in shaping our journey toward excellence.
Summit’s team is inspired to touch and help change lives through Summit’s clinical studies in the field of oncology. Summit has multiple global Phase 3 clinical studies, including:
Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
HARMONi: Phase 3 clinical study which was intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to placebo plus chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated, locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous NSCLC who were previously treated with a 3rd generation EGFR TKI.
HARMONi-3: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
HARMONi-7: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab monotherapy compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
Colorectal Cancer (CRC)
HARMONi-GI3: Phase 3 clinical study intended to evaluate ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy compared with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy.
Ivonescimab is an investigational therapy not presently approved by any regulatory authority other than China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). Summit is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and has additional offices in California, New Jersey, the UK, and Ireland.
Position Overview
The Director, Medical Information (MI) is a strategic leader responsible for building, scaling, and overseeing the MI function to ensure launch readiness and ongoing scientific excellence. This role will architect the full MI infrastructure—including systems, processes, governance, and content strategy—to support the company’s first commercial launch and future portfolio expansion.
A critical component of this role is leading to the end-to-end development and maintenance of MI capabilities that enable swift onboarding, integration, and operational readiness of the MI call center vendor, ensuring seamless, compliant, and highquality interactions with healthcare professionals, patients, and internal stakeholders.
The Director will collaborate cross‑functionally with Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Safety, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Compliance, and Commercial partners to ensure MI is tightly aligned with scientific, regulatory, and business needs. This is a highly visible role requiring scientific depth, operational excellence, and the ability to build new capabilities in a fast‑paced environment.
Key Responsibilities:
MI Strategy & Infrastructure Development
Lead and implement the design and build‑out of the MI infrastructure (i.e., MI Call Center), ensuring scalability, compliance, and readiness for US launch.
Assist in developing the MI operating model, including workflows, governance, content strategy, and cross‑functional interfaces, both in the USA and globally
Recruit, develop, and mentor MI personnel and establish organizational capabilities to support portfolio growth.
Evaluate generative AI, knowledge-management systems, chatbot solutions, and automation opportunities and develop the long-term digital MI roadmap.
Serve as the internal expert on MI regulations, industry standards, and best practices.
Call Center Vendor Management & Launch Readiness
Develop external (Call Center-specific) and internal (Summit-specific) MI SOPs, work instructions, training materials, and quality monitoring processes to ensure consistent, compliant, and high‑quality responses.
Ensure the call center is fully prepared for launch, including training, content availability, escalation pathways, and performance metrics.
Proactively manage call center/contractors responsible for responding to MIRs (including escalations from the call center) from Health Care Providers
Monitor vendor performance, quality, and compliance; implement corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
Ensure readiness and adherence to internal and external audits are always maintained.
Scientific Content Leadership
Oversee the development, review, and approval of Standard Response Letters (SRLs), Custom Responses (CRs), Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), and other MI scientific materials.
Ensure all MI content is scientifically rigorous, fair‑balanced, and aligned with evolving data, labeling, and safety information.
Lead regular advanced literature evaluation and data synthesis to support MI content and scientific responses.
Leverage technology and innovation to optimize the delivery of MI, including the use of digital platforms and AI tools.
Cross‑Functional Collaboration
Partner with Regulatory, Safety, Clinical Development, Compliance, and Medical Directors to ensure MI content reflects the most current scientific and safety information.
Assist with the development and creation of the AMCP dossiers (unapproved and approved use) in collaboration with senior MI personnel, HEOR lead, Market Access, Medical, Legal, Regulatory.
Develop data submission packages to key oncology guidelines and clinical pathways in collaboration with senior MI personnel, medical directors, HEOR lead and Marker Access.
Partner with the Head of the HEOR and the publications lead to develop NCCN and pathways submission plans.
Collaborate with Medical Affairs and Commercial teams to provide oversight for US and European conferences with activities including medical booths, logistics, materials, and staffing.
Provide insight into scientific communications planning (e.g, publications gap analysis) and internal training.
Serve as a key contributor to launch readiness planning and cross‑functional medical governance.
Insights, Metrics & Reporting
Establish and manage MI dashboards to track inquiry trends, operational performance, and scientific insights.
Contribute to the development of the MI annual and multi-year strategic and tactical plans including overall strategy and objectives.
Analyze and synthesize MI insights to inform Medical Affairs strategy, evidence generation, and cross‑functional decision‑making.
Present MI insights and operational updates to Medical Affairs leadership and cross‑functional partners. Keep abreast of trends and developments in MI and regulatory requirements and adapting strategies as needed
Qualifications:
Education
Doctoral degree in a health science discipline (PharmD, PhD, MD, or equivalent) required.
Oncology experience strongly preferred.
Experience
8+ years of MI experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry, with increasing leadership responsibility.
Demonstrated experience building or scaling MI systems, processes, or launch‑readiness capabilities.
Proven success overseeing MI call‑center vendors, including onboarding, training, and quality oversight.
Strong understanding of drug development, regulatory requirements, and medical affairs operations.
Experience supporting at least one US product launch preferred; first‑launch biotech experience a plus.
Skills & Competencies
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex scientific data into clear, balanced information.
Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence across functions and manage external partners.
Highly organized, detail‑oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
Proficiency with MS Office, literature search tools, and MI databases; experience with MS Project is a plus.
Ability to travel to scientific congresses and internal meetings (~10%).
This is the pay for this position
Pay Transparency
$203,000—$253,000 USD
Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable variable compensation.
Summit does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact Summit’s Talent Acquisition team at [email protected] to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to Summit.
Summit Therapeutics Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in creating and maintaining diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training or promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
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Medical InformationOncologyBiopharmaceuticalLaunch ReadinessCall Center ManagementRegulatory AffairsStandard Response LettersHEORClinical StudiesIvonescimabMedical AffairsGenerative AIComplianceScientific CommunicationData SynthesisStrategic Planning
Summit Therapeutics’ mission is to resolve serious, unmet medical needs for the betterment of overall human health.
Industry
Biotechnology Research
Company size
201-500 employees
Founded
2003
Headquarters
Miami, Florida
LinkedIn followers
60,828
Total funding
$1.8B
Summit Mission Statement:
To build a viable, long-lasting health care organization that assumes full responsibility for designing, developing, trial execution and enrollment, regulatory submission and approval, as well as successful commercialization of patient, physician, caregiver, and societal-friendly medicinal therapy intended to: improve quality of life, increase potential duration of life, and resolve serious medical healthcare needs. To identify and control promising product candidates based on exceptional scientific development and administrational expertise, develop our products in a rapid, cost-efficient manner, and to engage commercialization and/or development partners when appropriate.
We accomplish this by building a team of world class professional scientists and business administrators that apply their experience and knowledge to this mission. Team Summit exists to pose, strategize, and execute a path forward in medicinal therapeutic health care that places Summit in a well-deserved, top market share, leadership position. Team Summit assumes full responsibility for stimulating continuous expansion of knowledge, ability, capability, and well-being for all involved stakeholders and highly-valued shareholders.
Summit was founded in 2003 and our shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Market (symbol ‘SMMT’). We are headquartered in Miami, Florida, and we have additional offices in Palo Alto, California, Princeton, New Jersey, Oxford, UK, and Dublin, Ireland.
Offices: 601 Brickell Key Dr, Suite 1000, Miami, Florida 33131, US · 1000 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto, California 94304, US · 136a Eastern Avenue, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 4SB, GB · 502 Carnegie Center, Suite 102, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, US · 5 Harcourt Road, Dublin, D02 FW64, IE
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