ABOUT YOU

We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are passionate about making a meaningful difference to patients’ lives.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Life science degree

EXPERIENCE & COMPETENCES

• Minimum of 3 years working in a clinical or pharmaceutical environment
• Prior experience as a Medical Science Liaison
• Prior experience in the field of Biosimilars and/or innovative medicines
• Ability to comprehensively learn about new subject areas and environments
• Excellent written and spoken communication and presentation skills, with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with external experts, physicians and other healthcare decision makers

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

• Good knowledge of the pharmaceutical environment and the role of medical affairs in advancing the medical and scientific objectives of a pharmaceutical company
• Excellent customer facing skills
• Good understanding of and collaboration with:
• drug development, including pharmacovigilance & regulatory affairs teams
• statistics and data analysis
• Pricing, reimbursement and market access and commercial teams
• Competent in delivering medical / scientific presentations
• Cultural diversity
• Project management skills
• Compliance mind-set; ensures compliance obligations are met across all areas of responsibility.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The role of the Medical Office is to bring medical/scientific and drug safety related insights and expertise to ADVANZ PHARMA and to be subject matter experts across the following functional areas: medical affairs, medical compliance, patient safety, clinical development, post marketing research, and medical operations. This entails engaging and collaborating with healthcare organizations, healthcare professionals and customers – both internal and external - and generating and communicating relevant, meaningful and impactful data. In so-doing, the Medical Office: represents the voice of the patient in all matters; works to ensure that products are supported by relevant, up to date data and retain a positive benefit/risk profile; helps to drive our scientific credibility and reputation as a company; enables stakeholders to make informed choices for patients; operates with due regard to all relevant regulations and compliance requirements.

The Medical Science Liaison works as part of the Medical Office team and as part of the DACH organisation, specifically to:

• Deploy the Medical Affairs strategy, previously discussed with management at a national level and approved by the Global Director Medical Affairs, through development and execution of a local MSL plan
• Contribute towards medical strategy for maintenance products and future product launches through meaningful medical insights
• Maintain scientific support for healthcare professionals and other external experts through development and delivery of quality medical education in a field-based setting
• Establish and maintain strong, scientifically-based professional relationships with the healthcare community and healthcare professionals
• Provide relevant, accurate and timely, high-standard, and customized scientific responses to medical educational requests from external and internal stakeholders

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and execute the local MSL plan, which includes product launch activities, evidence generation, external expert engagement plan, medical education, publication and communication plan; ensuring the successful implementation of medical affairs strategy at the country level.
• Develop scientifically-based, professional relationships with local, regional, and national healthcare professionals to provide current medical and scientific education and information on our products and related diseases.
• Ensure that medical insights and medical/scientific field intelligence informs strategic planning at the local level, and that key issues or insights are flagged to other parts of the organization (i.e. at the global level) as necessary.
• Respond to healthcare professional product enquiries to ensure focused and balanced clinical and scientific information that supports the appropriate use of our medicines and services.
• Establish and maintain contact with relevant medical, research and educational societies within assigned region as well as with Healthcare Professionals and other external experts.
• Develop where needed, medical/scientific communication materials (such as medical presentations and summaries of data/studies, etc.) and ensure that these are reviewed from a scientific perspective, appropriately referenced, are of high quality, and comply fully with relevant company, Medical Office and local procedures.
• Demonstrate project leadership and management in and across field team and therapeutic area; including appropriate allocation and monitoring of local MSL budget.
• Participation in medical education for healthcare professionals through on-site / virtual presentations at healthcare facilities, investigator meetings, national professional societies and conferences, advisory boards, or local and regional healthcare meetings.
• Serve as medical experts within the Medical Office, and support other teams, such as the medical information team, with developing robust and high-quality responses to enquiries / standard responses.
• Where appropriate, and upon request by the ADVANZ PHARMA clinical research team, to assist in the initiation, oversight and follow up of clinical studies initiated within the therapeutic area for which the MSL carries responsibility. Act as the point of contact with external experts to facilitate investigator-initiated study (IIS) ideas and requests for support to the global medical team as appropriate.