Director, Global Medical Affairs Neuropsychiatry

Who We Are

Together, we’re on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It’s a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Working here means working with the world’s leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we’re always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced medical affairs leader to shape the future of psychiatry at a global level. As Director of Global Medical Affairs, Neuropsychiatry, you will play a pivotal role in driving the medical and scientific strategy for psychiatry, working in close partnership with the Therapeutic Area (TA) lead and the wider GMA Neuropsychiatry team. You’ll lead the development and execution of strategic plans to support the successful launch and lifecycle management of key assets, while building strong collaborations with external experts, scientific bodies, and patient representatives. This role offers the chance to provide influential medical guidance across early and late-stage development, as well as commercialised products, ensuring robust scientific leadership across clinical research, medical launch preparation, and health economics strategy.

 

Location:

Ideally, the successful candidate would be based within a commutable distance from either our Harlow or Ridings Points sites. However, we'd be open to receiving applications from those based anywhere across The UK, subject to your openness to national/international travel c.10%-20% of your working hours

How You’ll Spend Your Day

Key Responsibilities 

• Medical and scientific leadership and support to current and future commercialized medicines, and issues management for current medicines within psychiatry 
• Responsible for the development and execution of the Global Medical Affairs plan for the relevant asset(s). These will include, amongst others, responsibilities such as Phase IV trial activities (such as protocol development, study execution, medical governance and interpretation of results); development of Key Opinion Leader (External Experts) strategy and plan; scientific congress activities (such as medical symposium, presentation of abstracts and or posters); input to publication strategy and review of Investigator Sponsored Studies/Collaborative Research/GHEVO studies. 
• In partnership with the TA lead and team provides coordination and execution of overall medical strategy for Teva’s assets in psychiatry in close collaboration with Regional Medical Affairs teams, from initiation of regional pre-launch activities to several years post-launch (as relevant) 
• Again, alongside the TA lead contributes to and implements the world-wide medical psychiatry strategy 
• Interfaces effectively with other Global Medical Affairs functions such as Scientific Communications and Global Health Economics, Value and Outcomes, and other departments, including Commercial, Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs and Pharmacovigilance 
• Provides counsel to clinical development with input on early and late-stage development plans, target product profile, and lifecycle management 
• Collaborates with Global Scientific Communications in support of knowledge generation for the psychiatry franchise, including strategy development and review of manuscripts, abstracts and posters as part of the publication team 
• Develops and maintains professional relationships with external experts and professional associations including therapeutic guideline development groups. Responsible for the External Expert interface for the respective psychiatry medicines 

Your Experience And Qualifications

Do you have...

• Preferably, a life sciences degree / MD / MPharm, PhD and at least five years pharmaceutical industry experience.
• Experience in designing and executing PIV studies- this would be beneficial
• Pharmaceutical industry experience in global medical affairs, ideally in psychiatry or neuroscience.
• Experience in successfully developing strategy and executing medical plans, and in building professional external expert networks.
• A broad knowledge of drug development, clinical trial design, regulatory requirements, business development and life cycle management. 

 

Are you...

• Able to build strong work relationships with all stakeholders involved
• Able to work in a changing and flexible environment
• Experienced and adept at working collaboratively across different cross-functional teams such as commercial, R&D, health outcomes, regulatory, pharmacovigilance and compliance.
• Bringing a leadership skillset and comfort working within a matrix set-up
• Able to translate complex scientific content into what this means in medical practice for the HCP and patient
• Driven by the pride in your work
• A strategic thinker

 

If so, we'd value hearing from you...

Enjoy A More Rewarding Choice

We support our people through every stage of their journey with us. Our flexible reward platform puts you in control, empowering you to tailor your benefits to fit your lifestyle, priorities, and what matters most to you. With 25 days of annual leave that grows with your service, the flexibility to purchase additional days, and two dedicated volunteering days each year, your time off is truly yours to enjoy, recharge, and give back. We prioritise your health with private medical insurance, life assurance, critical illness cover, and income protection. 

 

Whether you're growing your family or pursuing new adventures, our enhanced maternity and paternity leave, sabbaticals, and hybrid working policies are here to support you through life’s most meaningful moments. Financial wellbeing matters too, which is why we offer an enhanced pension scheme, access to a discount store, and free financial coaching through Bippit.

 

To help you grow with confidence, we offer a structured training and development programme tailored to your role and department, equipping you with the tools, knowledge, and support you need to thrive.

Already Working @TEVA?

#TJ If you are a current Teva employee, please apply using the internal career site available on "Employee Central". By doing so, your application will be treated with priority. You will also be able to see opportunities that are open exclusively to Teva employees. Use the following link to search and apply:  Internal Career Site

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Application deadline for internal candidates will close on Tuesday 12th August 2025

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