Lead, Medical Governance & Content Review

Lead, Medical Governance & Content Review

REQ-10092017
Nov 09, 2026
LOC_CN

About the Role

1. Strengthen the China Medical Governance

  • Serve as the country Medical Governance point of contact / Medical Governance Center of Excellence, providing governance leadership and subject-matter expertise across Medical Affairs activities.
  • Timely communicate GMA governance standards, frameworks and requirements into fit-for-purpose China implementation.
  • Establish and continuously improve a harmonized and sustainable Medical Governance framework with clear roles, accountabilities, processes, controls and escalation mechanisms.
  • Act as a trusted risk expert and strategic enabler for Medical teams, supporting activity owners in identifying risks and opportunities early and engaging relevant partners to enable informed decisions.
  • Provide governance consultation for high-risk, novel or complex Medical activities and help teams determine appropriate risk mitigation and controls.
  • Ensure Medical governance supports business objectives with appropriate quality and compliance rather than creating unnecessary operational complexity.

2. Lead and shadow Medical Content Review & Quality Oversight

  • Lead and shadow the China Medical Contents review operation across therapeutic areas and relevant external-facing Medical/scientific Contents.
  • Establish a risk-based, efficient and scalable review model, including review standards, workflows, role clarity, service levels, escalation criteria and quality indicators.
  • Lead the dedicated contents review team and ensure effective workload and capacity management across the portfolio.
  • Drive consistency of review decisions and reviewer quality through calibration, guidance, knowledge sharing and case-based learning.
  • Establish quality assurance mechanisms including risk-based sample checks, quality trending and targeted remediation.
  • Partner with relevant global functions to continuously evolve content-review processes, standards and systems.
  • Identify opportunities for technology and AI-enabled workflow improvement while maintaining appropriate human medical judgment, governance and accountability.

3. Risk Management, Monitoring & Governance Oversight

  • Lead Medical activity risk identification, assessment, mitigation and monitoring in partnership with activity owners and relevant functions.
  • Regular monitor Governance or Quality dashboard/system’s KPIs, KQIs translate monitoring data into actionable insights, and proactively identify emerging quality or compliance risks.
  • Lead/facilitate medical health checks, governance monitoring and risk-based oversight activities.
  • Lead or coordinate Medical self-assessments(SA) and support follow-up of findings and corrective/preventive actions where appropriate by implement the SA strategy form GMA .  
  • Support cross function (e.g. ERC) to identify, triage, escalation or resolution of the finding or related observation.
  • Provide Medical quality and risk updates to relevant country governance/leadership forums, including appropriate insights, risk trends and mitigation plans.
  • Ensure appropriate documentation and traceability to support inspection/audit readiness.

4. Issue Management & Escalation

  • Support cross function (e.g. ERC) to identify, triage, escalation or resolution of the finding or related observation.
  • Partner with Medical leadership and cross-functional governance bodies on complex or high-risk issues.
  • Ensure appropriate escalation of issues that cannot be resolved through business-as-usual processes, consistent with the GMA pathway whereby issues may progress from local teams  to global Medical Governance through the designated escalation mechanism
  • Drive root-cause understanding, corrective actions and organizational learning from Content quality or governance issues.

5. Cross-functional & Global Partnership

Build strong working relationships with:

  • China Medical therapeutic-area teams
  • GMA Medical Governance / Medical Excellence, Operations & Governance
  • Quality
  • Ethics, Risk & Compliance
  • Legal
  • Patient Safety
  • Regulatory Affairs
  • Scientific Communications / Medical Information

 

6. Operational Excellence & Capability Building

  • Implement governance and Contents-review processes while strengthening quality, risk management and accountability.
  • Act as a function SOP manager and Medical SME to ensure the medical owned SOP/WP is properly maintained as Quality requirement
  • Develop governance and Contents-review training, onboarding and continuous capability-building programs.
  • Build a strong community of Medical reviewers across therapeutic areas.
  • Use review data and risk insights to identify recurring issues and systematically address upstream root causes.
  • Drive continuous improvement through simplification, transparency and faster decision-making, consistent with the success factors defined by the GMA governance model.
  • Partner with technology and AI teams to improve review workflow, knowledge access, quality monitoring and reviewer productivity where appropriate.

 


 

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LOC_CN
Shanghai (Shanghai)
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Full time
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REQ-10092017

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