Medical Lead

at  Novartis

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• +3 years of medical affairs experience in relevant industry
• Medical doctor or PhD in science
• Nephrology related experience is a big plus
• Operations Management and Execution
• Strong cross functional collaboration with agile attitude
• Business proficiency in English
  Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our
  people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
  You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

ABOUT THE ROLE

Internal Role Title: Medical Lead
Location: Singapore #LI-Hybrid

ABOUT THE ROLE:

This role will be involved with Medical Affairs activities catering to Cardiovascular and its upcoming pipeline molecules for Nephrology. The role will also support Ophthalmology as a franchise. We are looking for candidates with strategic outlook and operational excellence to build the CV portfolio further.
Cardiovascular is a focused therapeutic area for Novartis. The pipeline molecules are in a niche space and will bring value to patients with Cardiovascular disease. We hope to have candidates with a similar vision of to transform clinical practice by bringing our innovations to patients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure medical enquiries are responded to in a high quality, timely manner, and in accordance with applicable standards; establish standard response documents as appropriate, for frequently asked questions.
• Provide medical/scientific input into the development and execution of clinical trial or clinical research related activities, including initiation and oversight of clinical studies / clinical research within the respective therapeutic area. Support country strategy for Non Interventional Studies/Investigator Initiated Trial activities.
• Coordinate review and approval of medical materials and locally developed promotional materials; ensure medical materials provided from global or region for stakeholder engagement and events are tailored to local needs, and reviewed/approved per local/P3 guidelines.
• Ensure medical insights are provided to cross functional groups, including, but not restricted to: Pharmacovigilance, Regulatory affairs, Market Access, QA, Commercial teams, Brand team and others.
• Responsible for risk identification and assessment, mitigation planning as well as implementation and monitoring of appropriate internal controls within the area of responsibilities.