Writing your resume for a Medical Affairs leadership role?

A compelling resume for Medical Affairs or Clinical Affairs has evolved FAR beyond a list of clinical and leadership tasks.

• If you’re competing for executive positions at a pharma or biotech company, your resume must showcase your impact on growth, while juggling intensive demands in the medical and clinical affairs arena.
• You’ll need to prove you can bridge the gap among medical teams, physicians, hospital executives, and marketing interests, showing your collaboration, revenue generation, and commercialization skills – as well as business and branding insights.

Here are 5 key elements for a Medical Affairs resume designed to attract pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, or other life sciencies employers:

Strategic leadership in research or clinical settings.

Medical Affairs executives often combine commercial-side business meetings with oversight of research strategy, clinical studies, and scientific claims validation.

As shown in this VP of Medical Affairs sample resume, you’ll need to explain how your work has shaped product  commercialization, fostered communication among commercial and clinical groups, and produced growth from clinical programs. (more…)