Clinical Development Physician, Ophthalmology (Medical Director)
for section headings: e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. But we must only include sections when posting has real specific content. We need to map content to these headings.
We have:
- About Astellas: description of company. Could be "About the role"? Actually "About the role" is generic heading for role description. The posting includes "Purpose And Scope" which describes primary objective. That could be "About the role". We'll use About the role
with content from Purpose And Scope.
- Responsibilities: we have "Responsibilities And Accountabilities". Use Responsibilities
with list.
- Requirements: we have "Required Qualifications". Use Requirements
(or Qualifications). The instruction says use headings like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can choose Requirements for required qualifications, and maybe Qualifications for preferred? But they said prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine Required and Preferred into Qualifications? But we need to preserve all info. Could have Qualifications
with sub-sections? But we must use - for any list. Could have two lists: Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications under same heading? Might be okay to have two
under same heading. Or we could have separate headings: Requirements and Preferred Qualifications (maybe as Skills?). But they said use headings like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. Could treat Required Qualifications as Requirements, Preferred Qualifications as Qualifications (or Skills). However "Skills" could be separate for skills like scientific writing, etc. But we can keep simple: Requirements (required qualifications) and Qualifications (preferred qualifications). Also we have "Location and Working Environment" maybe not a standard heading; could be omitted or placed under a generic section? The instruction says include a section ONLY when posting has real specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler. We have location info: based in Northbrook, IL, remote work from anywhere in US, hybrid. That's substantive. Could we put under a heading like "Location"? Not in list. But we could incorporate into a under maybe "About the role" or separate? The instruction only lists specific headings we may use; but we can also use other headings? It says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It gives examples but not exclusive? Likely we should stick to those headings. So we need to fit location info somewhere else, maybe under "About the role" as a paragraph. Or we could create a "Schedule" heading for hybrid work? But schedule is about work hours; not exactly. Could treat location/working environment as "Schedule"? Not ideal. Maybe we can omit location? But we must preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to include it somewhere. Could add a
after the qualifications sections without a heading? The instruction says output ONLY the HTML fragment; we can include
paragraphs not under headings? It didn't forbid extra paragraphs outside headings, but they said use
for section headings (e.g. ...). It didn't say we cannot have other headings, but we should follow the pattern. Safer to include location info as a paragraph under a heading like "About the role" or "Qualifications". Let's put after responsibilities maybe a paragraph about location.
We also have "What awaits you at Astellas?" which describes culture/values. Could be under "Benefits"? Not exactly. Could be under "Qualifications"? No. Could be under "About the role"? Might be okay to add a paragraph about culture.
We have Salary Range and Benefits sections: those map to Pay and Benefits headings.
We have no explicit Schedule info (like work hours). Hybrid work could be considered schedule? Might be okay to put under Pay? Not. Could create a Schedule heading with hybrid work info. The instruction says never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. We have schedule info: hybrid work, remote, location. So we can create a Schedule heading with that content.
Thus sections:
- About the role (Purpose And Scope)
- Responsibilities (Responsibilities And Accountabilities)
- Requirements (Required Qualifications)
- Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications)
- Benefits (Benefits)
- Pay (Salary Range)
- Schedule (Location and Working Environment + What awaits you at Astellas? maybe also culture)
We need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to remove boilerplate: EEO, etc. At end there is "Astellas is committed to equality of opportunity..." and "Category Ophthalmology Medical". Remove EEO line. Keep Category? Might be considered metadata; could drop. The instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Category Ophthalmology Medical is minor metadata; we can drop or include in a short p. Probably drop.
Now craft HTML.
We'll need to preserve all substantive info: need to copy text exactly? Not necessarily exact wording but preserve meaning. We'll paraphrase but keep details.
Let's extract each section content.
About the role (Purpose And Scope):
"The primary objective for the Development Physician is to provide input into the design and conduct of clinical trials, review and/or generate key study documents (such as medical monitoring and safety management plans, treatment manuals, etc.), assess and interpret safety data, and contribute to investigator, site staff and clinical study team training."
We'll put that in
.
Responsibilities: list from Responsibilities And Accountabilities. Need to convert each sentence into
- . Let's list:
- In collaboration with the Medical Lead, responsible for designing and making recommendations in the clinical development plan that are aligned with the asset development strategy, after soliciting appropriate input and review from Medical and Clinical Operations colleagues as well as other contributing line functions (Regulatory Affairs, Statistics, Clinical Operations, Commercial).
- Be available to advise on assigned clinical trial(s) related medical questions or problems during the trial, including 24/7 emergency coverage for safety-related matters.
- Reviews and analyzes the eligibility of participants per inclusion/exclusion requirements of a clinical trial.
- Reviews all adverse events to look for trends or risks, reviews all serious adverse events (SAEs), including review of the narrative, investigators’ assessment on causality, and applicable regulatory reporting, with close collaboration with the study’s Global Safety Officer.
- Provides review of study protocols and ongoing medical oversight of clinical trials to ensure that safety concerns and/or adverse events are identified and appropriate responses to such concerns are developed and executed.
- Ensures activities related to Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) are conducted in accordance with applicable SOPs and regulations. Includes writing and/or reviewing Safety Narratives, Investigator Letters, and other safety documentation for site-reported safety events.
- Consults with internal and external stakeholders in the development of clinical trial design and conduct, including drafting of protocols and amendments.
- Develops and/or reviews operational, medical monitoring, and safety plans for studies.
- Leads and/or participates in scientific and medical training of other team members and external clients, investigators, and other site staff as it pertains to assigned studies.
- Generates safety-related documents, such as medical monitoring reports and the safety database, to ensure that the reporting of SAEs is current and complete.
- In collaboration with the Medical Lead: Health Authorities communication: the Development Physician is responsible for clinical written feedback/response to deficiency letter, pre-IND/NDA communication meeting, or panel review meeting.
- Investigators/KOL engagement: Development Physician is responsible for KOL/investigators scientific engagement.
We'll keep as list items.
Requirements (Required Qualifications):
List:
- Medical Degree (or Medically Qualified) with completion of residency in Ophthalmology
- Willingness to work across different ophthalmic indications
- Should have at least 8 years relevant experience in drug development in a biotech/pharmaceutical company or equivalent experience in an academic clinical research institute (NCI, NIH, Academic Research groups, etc) with at least 5 years working in clinical development
- Excellent scientific writing skills
- Ability to read and analyze ocular images
- Experience analyzing, synthesizing, and communicating clinical trial data
- Proficiency with ICH/GCP guidelines and other applicable regulatory rules and guidelines as well as of medical terminology, drug development, clinical trials, and clinical research.
We'll put each as
- .
Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications):
- Active or prior Board Certification
- Prior experience working at another Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical company or CRO
- Experience working in cell or gene therapy drug development
We'll list.
Benefits:
List:
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off options, including Vacation and Sick time, plus national holidays including year-end shut down
- 401(k) match and annual company contribution
- Company paid life insurance
- Annual Corporate Bonus and Quarterly Sales Incentive for eligible positions
- Long Term Incentive Plan for eligible positions
- Company fleet vehicle for eligible positions
- Referral bonus program
Pay:
- Salary Range $207,192 - $295,988 (Final compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to skills, experience and organizational equity considerations)
- The salary range provided applies to US only and does not apply to any other locations outside of the US
Schedule:
We need to include location and working environment plus "What awaits you at Astellas?" (culture). Let's combine.
Location and Working Environment:
- This position is based in Northbrook, IL.
- Remote work from anywhere in the US is available.
- At Astellas we recognize the importance of work/life balance, and we are proud to offer a hybrid working solution allowing time to connect with colleagues at the office with the flexibility to also work from home.
- We believe this will optimize the most productive work environment for all employees to succeed and deliver.
- Hybrid work from certain locations may be permitted in accordance with Astellas’ Responsible Flexibility Guidelines.
- This position is a global role with strong interaction with various disciplines and international stakeholders.
- Highly matrixed environment requiring cross-regional coordination.
- Frequent interaction with senior leadership and governance bodies.
- Collaboration across EU, US, and Japan time zones.
What awaits you at Astellas? (culture/values):
- Global collaboration: Become part of a connected global business of like-minded life science leaders, all dedicated to improving patients' lives worldwide.
- Real-world patient impact: Contribute to transformative therapies that reach patients around the world, knowing your work makes a difference every day.
- Relentless Innovation: Join a company at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs, where you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of healthcare.
- A Culture of Growth: Chart your own course within a supportive environment that values your contributions, champions your development, and empowers you to pursue your passions.
- Our Organizational Values and Behaviors Values: Innovation, Integrity and Impact sit at the heart of what we do. Behaviors: We come together as ‘One Astellas’, working with courage and a sense of urgency . We are outcome focused and consistently take accountability for our personal contribution.
We'll put these as
- under Schedule? Might be odd but it's the only heading left. Could we instead create a separate heading like "About the role" already used; we could add a paragraph after responsibilities about location and culture. But we need to preserve all info; we can
- under same heading. Or we could have separate headings: Requirements and Preferred Qualifications (maybe as Skills?). But they said use headings like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. Could treat Required Qualifications as Requirements, Preferred Qualifications as Qualifications (or Skills). However "Skills" could be separate for skills like scientific writing, etc. But we can keep simple: Requirements (required qualifications) and Qualifications (preferred qualifications). Also we have "Location and Working Environment" maybe not a standard heading; could be omitted or placed under a generic section? The instruction says include a section ONLY when posting has real specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler. We have location info: based in Northbrook, IL, remote work from anywhere in US, hybrid. That's substantive. Could we put under a heading like "Location"? Not in list. But we could incorporate into a
- . Let's list: - In collaboration with the Medical Lead, responsible for designing and making recommendations in the clinical development plan that are aligned with the asset development strategy, after soliciting appropriate input and review from Medical and Clinical Operations colleagues as well as other contributing line functions (Regulatory Affairs, Statistics, Clinical Operations, Commercial). - Be available to advise on assigned clinical trial(s) related medical questions or problems during the trial, including 24/7 emergency coverage for safety-related matters. - Reviews and analyzes the eligibility of participants per inclusion/exclusion requirements of a clinical trial. - Reviews all adverse events to look for trends or risks, reviews all serious adverse events (SAEs), including review of the narrative, investigators’ assessment on causality, and applicable regulatory reporting, with close collaboration with the study’s Global Safety Officer. - Provides review of study protocols and ongoing medical oversight of clinical trials to ensure that safety concerns and/or adverse events are identified and appropriate responses to such concerns are developed and executed. - Ensures activities related to Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) are conducted in accordance with applicable SOPs and regulations. Includes writing and/or reviewing Safety Narratives, Investigator Letters, and other safety documentation for site-reported safety events. - Consults with internal and external stakeholders in the development of clinical trial design and conduct, including drafting of protocols and amendments. - Develops and/or reviews operational, medical monitoring, and safety plans for studies. - Leads and/or participates in scientific and medical training of other team members and external clients, investigators, and other site staff as it pertains to assigned studies. - Generates safety-related documents, such as medical monitoring reports and the safety database, to ensure that the reporting of SAEs is current and complete. - In collaboration with the Medical Lead: Health Authorities communication: the Development Physician is responsible for clinical written feedback/response to deficiency letter, pre-IND/NDA communication meeting, or panel review meeting. - Investigators/KOL engagement: Development Physician is responsible for KOL/investigators scientific engagement. We'll keep as list items. Requirements (Required Qualifications): List: - Medical Degree (or Medically Qualified) with completion of residency in Ophthalmology - Willingness to work across different ophthalmic indications - Should have at least 8 years relevant experience in drug development in a biotech/pharmaceutical company or equivalent experience in an academic clinical research institute (NCI, NIH, Academic Research groups, etc) with at least 5 years working in clinical development - Excellent scientific writing skills - Ability to read and analyze ocular images - Experience analyzing, synthesizing, and communicating clinical trial data - Proficiency with ICH/GCP guidelines and other applicable regulatory rules and guidelines as well as of medical terminology, drug development, clinical trials, and clinical research. We'll put each as
- . Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications): - Active or prior Board Certification - Prior experience working at another Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical company or CRO - Experience working in cell or gene therapy drug development We'll list. Benefits: List: - Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance - Generous Paid Time Off options, including Vacation and Sick time, plus national holidays including year-end shut down - 401(k) match and annual company contribution - Company paid life insurance - Annual Corporate Bonus and Quarterly Sales Incentive for eligible positions - Long Term Incentive Plan for eligible positions - Company fleet vehicle for eligible positions - Referral bonus program Pay: - Salary Range $207,192 - $295,988 (Final compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to skills, experience and organizational equity considerations) - The salary range provided applies to US only and does not apply to any other locations outside of the US Schedule: We need to include location and working environment plus "What awaits you at Astellas?" (culture). Let's combine. Location and Working Environment: - This position is based in Northbrook, IL. - Remote work from anywhere in the US is available. - At Astellas we recognize the importance of work/life balance, and we are proud to offer a hybrid working solution allowing time to connect with colleagues at the office with the flexibility to also work from home. - We believe this will optimize the most productive work environment for all employees to succeed and deliver. - Hybrid work from certain locations may be permitted in accordance with Astellas’ Responsible Flexibility Guidelines. - This position is a global role with strong interaction with various disciplines and international stakeholders. - Highly matrixed environment requiring cross-regional coordination. - Frequent interaction with senior leadership and governance bodies. - Collaboration across EU, US, and Japan time zones. What awaits you at Astellas? (culture/values): - Global collaboration: Become part of a connected global business of like-minded life science leaders, all dedicated to improving patients' lives worldwide. - Real-world patient impact: Contribute to transformative therapies that reach patients around the world, knowing your work makes a difference every day. - Relentless Innovation: Join a company at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs, where you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of healthcare. - A Culture of Growth: Chart your own course within a supportive environment that values your contributions, champions your development, and empowers you to pursue your passions. - Our Organizational Values and Behaviors Values: Innovation, Integrity and Impact sit at the heart of what we do. Behaviors: We come together as ‘One Astellas’, working with courage and a sense of urgency . We are outcome focused and consistently take accountability for our personal contribution. We'll put these as
- under Schedule? Might be odd but it's the only heading left. Could we instead create a separate heading like "About the role" already used; we could add a paragraph after responsibilities about location and culture. But we need to preserve all info; we can
under maybe "About the role" or separate? The instruction only lists specific headings we may use; but we can also use other headings? It says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It gives examples but not exclusive? Likely we should stick to those headings. So we need to fit location info somewhere else, maybe under "About the role" as a paragraph. Or we could create a "Schedule" heading for hybrid work? But schedule is about work hours; not exactly. Could treat location/working environment as "Schedule"? Not ideal. Maybe we can omit location? But we must preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to include it somewhere. Could add a
after the qualifications sections without a heading? The instruction says output ONLY the HTML fragment; we can include
paragraphs not under headings? It didn't forbid extra paragraphs outside headings, but they said use
for section headings (e.g. ...). It didn't say we cannot have other headings, but we should follow the pattern. Safer to include location info as a paragraph under a heading like "About the role" or "Qualifications". Let's put after responsibilities maybe a paragraph about location. We also have "What awaits you at Astellas?" which describes culture/values. Could be under "Benefits"? Not exactly. Could be under "Qualifications"? No. Could be under "About the role"? Might be okay to add a paragraph about culture. We have Salary Range and Benefits sections: those map to Pay and Benefits headings. We have no explicit Schedule info (like work hours). Hybrid work could be considered schedule? Might be okay to put under Pay? Not. Could create a Schedule heading with hybrid work info. The instruction says never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. We have schedule info: hybrid work, remote, location. So we can create a Schedule heading with that content. Thus sections: - About the role (Purpose And Scope) - Responsibilities (Responsibilities And Accountabilities) - Requirements (Required Qualifications) - Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications) - Benefits (Benefits) - Pay (Salary Range) - Schedule (Location and Working Environment + What awaits you at Astellas? maybe also culture) We need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to remove boilerplate: EEO, etc. At end there is "Astellas is committed to equality of opportunity..." and "Category Ophthalmology Medical". Remove EEO line. Keep Category? Might be considered metadata; could drop. The instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Category Ophthalmology Medical is minor metadata; we can drop or include in a short p. Probably drop. Now craft HTML. We'll need to preserve all substantive info: need to copy text exactly? Not necessarily exact wording but preserve meaning. We'll paraphrase but keep details. Let's extract each section content. About the role (Purpose And Scope): "The primary objective for the Development Physician is to provide input into the design and conduct of clinical trials, review and/or generate key study documents (such as medical monitoring and safety management plans, treatment manuals, etc.), assess and interpret safety data, and contribute to investigator, site staff and clinical study team training." We'll put that in
. Responsibilities: list from Responsibilities And Accountabilities. Need to convert each sentence into