Medical Advisor Nordics - Alexion (AstraZeneca Rare Diseases)

at  AstraZeneca

Are you an experienced professional with a deep interest in rare diseases and looking for new challenges? Apply today and make a difference for patients’ lives!
Reports to: Medical Lead, Nordics
Location: Denmark or Sweden, field-based

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

• Advanced degree in medical science MD, PharmD or PhD
• At least 2 -4 years proven experience as MSL or Medical Advisor
• Solid background and experience with related TAs (rare disease setting), and understanding of drug development and life‐cycle development strongly preferred
• Knowledge of clinical development (clinical trials, registries, RWE)
• Knowledge of local pharmaceutical regulations
• Solutions oriented and ability to work in a complex environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills with proven track record to deliver impactful presentations
• Proficiency in English and local language is required

Desired experience:

• Experience in institutional settings preferred
• Launch experience
• Experience with budget and financial planning
• IT skills, utilization of digital tools
• Market access experience
• Experience with personalized medicine/ patients support programs

The Medical Advisor (MA) will be an integral part of the Nordic medical affairs team. The MA will focus on establishing and maintaining professional scientific relationships with the local healthcare community and network as HCPs, pharmacy’s managers, key hospital’s decision makers, communicating scientific, clinical and health economic information in a balanced and objective way and implementing medical field activities as planned in the corresponding therapeutic area.

You r responsibilities:

• Build, develop and maintain strong relationship with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs)
• Engage, educate, and create advocacy among HCPs, KOLs, PAOs, decision makers at key institutions representing Alexion Medical Affairs with scientific activities, as well as conferences (incl. managing abstracts, presentations), advisory boards, research studies.
• Maintain a high knowledge of product, disease state, and applicable scientific expertise to provide the highest input for understanding current and future positioning aims of the drug
• Ensure compliance with all corporate policies, regulatory guidelines, and medical affairs procedures
• Provide scientific/medical information in time to both internal clients and external customers in most up-to -date and balanced way
• Initiate, lead and running local projects, like organizing Advisory Boards, Registries, PSPs according to the local medical plan.
• National and international travel required.

Stakeholder engagement:

• Provide scientific engagement by providing evidence-based information and discussing novel solutions with key partners.
• Prepare medical field activity plan and support the development of the Austrian & Swiss Medical Plans, according to collected insights from the key stakeholders and in alignment with the cross-functional key account plan.
• Lead scientific discussions to build mini dossier for adoption of the related treatment in Hospital formularies and/or definition of treatment algorithm
• Initiate and drive the development and implementation of local national registries and local evidence generation programs emphasizing in Real Word Evidence.

Cross functional work:

• join the Nordic Task Force team, provide insights and feedback from external stakeholders to build a relevant medical launch plan.
• Provide appropriate and timely medical support to clinical operations, commercial, market access team among other teams, in line with local standards and regulations and internal policies.
• Provide insights into HEOR and comparative effectiveness research to support formulary and coverage decisions