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About the Role:
Focus on optimizing patient access and outcomes by providing up-to-date compound and disease area medical expertise, acting as a key expert in the relevant therapeutic area assigned, and leading across functions to address external and internal stakeholder needs.
To shape and implement the Local and Global Therapeutic Area strategy through innovative integrated evidence generation, engagement on scientific results with internal and external stakeholders, and co-creation with healthcare systems and the scientific community.
This role reports directly into the Country Medical Affairs Head.
About the Role
Medical Strategic Plans
• Prepares and drives the execution of the local Medical Affairs strategic plans aligned and in collaboration with other functions.
• Lead early identification of strategic drivers, elaboration of patient journey, positioning, target population, the wider stakeholder population mapping and segmentation.
• Identifies opportunities for joint value creation through engagement with the key scientific leaders and other partners in the healthcare systems including Patients and Patient Associations to co-design strategies and studies, advocating in the assigned therapeutic area.
Integrated Evidence Co-development
• Accountable to Co-developing integrated evidence plans and ensuring local execution of these plans beginning at DDP/POC and throughout the lifecycle in partnership with Global Drug Development (GDD), functional partners, healthcare systems, patients and other external stakeholders.
• Identifies Real World Evidence (RWE) needs and utilizes implementation science and other innovative methodologies, to close the gap ensuring patient and clinical adoption and better outcomes. Responsible for local and global evidence generation submissions
Medical Expertise Provisions
• Provides key medical expertise on the company’s pipeline programs, disease areas and approved brands. Performs comprehensive evaluation of related products passing DDP/FDP to enable effective cross-functional New Product Planning for the Country Pharma Organization (CPO). Provide informed CPO input to Global strategies, protocols, etc if assigned early product portfolio.
Minimum Requirements:
- MD or PhD/PharmD in Health Sciences (requirement as per country strategy and/or local regulations)
- Pharmaceutical industry experience
- Significant clinical and research background GCP; strong medical and scientific bases and agility to transverse the diseases’ arena
- Good planning and organizational skills; Strong business acumen
- Strong communication skills and customer orientation; Strong medical and scientific writing skills
- Preferred experience in innovative study designs e.g. RCT/RWE mixed designs
- Preferred experience in implementation science
- Preferred proven track record of co-creation and co-execution of protocols with stakeholders in healthcare systems
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