Head of Medical Affairs

• Developing and executing a highly efficient and integrated medico-marketing strategy, including scientific evidence generation and scientific information exchange with all key stakeholders
• Provide strategic input for the elaboration of brand plans by being the center of scientific expertise
• Providing relevant data evidence to ensure that the overall strategy is clearly defined and consistent with medical affairs and commercial strategic objectives.
• Reviewing and approving medical and scientific content of Regulatory, Safety, Communications, Medical Affairs, and Commercial
• Pro-actively providing guidance to marketing and sales teams
• Webinars/CMEs/Advisory Board meetings/Preceptorship programs - preparing scientific agenda, providing literature & presentation support as required, co-ordination with partners/stakeholders
• Strategic support for new launch & existing products – medical/scientific strategy for new launches and strategic LCM inputs for existing products
• Providing leadership and strategic direction for interactions and communications with external customers, key organizations, and institutions.
• Collaborating the commercial teams to address questions and opportunities.
• Informing stakeholders of unmet needs and facilitating appropriate approaches to address them.
• Interacting with experts at medical meetings, advisory boards, and outreach meetings to represent the company and strengthen its reputation in the therapeutic areas.
• Maintaining external orientation by participating actively in external events and activities in our chosen spaces
• Develop and implement a strong advocacy plan with experts in the field, academics and professionals and/or patient associations. (Prior knowledge of and established relationships with key opinion leaders in our key spaces considered an asset).
• Develop a strong advocacy program and organise advisory boards or roundtables to build and reinforce product awareness and gain strategic insights for medical affairs and commercial strategy.
• Ensure the scientific integrity of information, and relationships with healthcare providers and patient advocacy groups.

• Ensuring compliance in medical affairs and medico-marketing activities
• Ensuring compliance in selection of speakers, deciding FMV and evaluating participation criteria

• Evidence generation activity and publications – identify needs for post-marketing programmes and oversee their end-to-end management and execution.

• Evaluation of new products - identifying products to enable the building of a robust portfolio
• Providing medical rationale & analysis for selected product Portfolios & CoE teams
• Conduct of Advisory board meetings for opinion of KOLs on new products

• Collaborate with Training Manager to enhance training program on disease and competitor products and ensure continuous update
• Support Training Manager in developing content and conducting training sessions for new launches as well as scientific updates on existing products

• Lead and contribute to a system of Competitive intelligence and monitoring of publications
• Compilation and circulation of regular scientific updates on major brands/therapy areas

• Ensure a patient-centric approach to development of medical strategy both for product and device, as well as possible services which can enhance the value proposition of the product
• Digital Platforms and related activities - support for digital activities like Pill plus, Digital content quality review, revision in content topics, Support for website launch, Webinars, etc
• Support market research, opportunity validation, and whitespace analysis to identify new opportunities for new and existing features and functionalities.
• Partner with the central product teams to build product roadmaps as per needs of the user(s) and market.
• Planning of the product release or introduction in the country
• Engage with potential customers and internal stakeholders to understand problems and potential business opportunities in their respective markets and therapy areas.
• Identify and lead discussions with potential partners & service providers for enabling new services and revenue streams around the product.
• Support, planning and monitoring of Product MVPs, Pilot and Launch activities in the market along with central product team
• Lead/oversee data generation activities
• Conceptualisation, development, roll-out and monitoring of differentiated Patient Support Programmes for key products

• Degree in Medicine with at least 5 years of industry experience in Medical Affairs
• In-depth understanding of and proven success in how to conceptualize, design, and execute patient programmes
• Broad and formal leadership experience, including excellent “leadership presence” to represent Medical Affairs within the company, to other functions, and to leaders at every level.
• Excellent skills working with experts from other functions and influencing decision making
• High energy and an absolute commitment to a culture that operates with high ethical standards and strives to exceed all goals and objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to inspire confidence while working demonstrating sound scientific judgment
• Comfort operating in a consensus-building role but also able to make specific recommendations and decisions and drive for implementation.
• Ability to inspire confidence, both internally and externally, through leading by example and demonstrating collaborative behavior.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and lead expert Scientific Advisory Panels.
• Ability to understand and effectively communicate scientific and medical data results and information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build solid working relationships with the commercial organisation, as well as negotiate and influence

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