Medical Advisor

Duties & Responsibilities:




  • Develop and maintain peer-to-peer collaborations and relationships with key medical experts in the Biotechnology community.

  • Develop territory field medical plan and TLs Interaction plans based on therapeutic area objectives and TLs needs.

  • Support clinical development initiatives including site identification, trial recruitment, registry, and presentation of final approved data.

  • Collaborate with physicians on medical affairs initiatives including publications, advisory boards, medical education opportunities, training, and speaker development.

  • Serve as scientific peer-to-peer resource to external disease experts and internal stakeholders.

  • Support the medical community with up-to-date medical information, robust disease expertise, and product information.

  • Communicate clinical insights on new data to the company medical Affairs and to inform medical strategy for the assigned therapeutic area.

  • Train internal & external stakeholders on key scientific and medical topics in relevant therapeutic area.

  • Maintain effective and appropriate communication among internal stakeholders while maintaining full compliance with relevant requirements.

  • Generate tactical regional plans to provide needs based, value-added support of the medical and scientific community in-line with company goals.

  • Uses systems to strategically map, identify, profile, and prioritize thought leaders in line with the medical plan and goals.

  • Maintain accurate reporting and documentation of MSL activities.

  • Provide medical and scientific information to respond to KOLs' technical questions about company`s product.

  • Lead meetings with KOLs to discuss relevant scientific literature and address their enquiries.

  • Make educational presentations to senior doctors and researchers, for example on clinical trial data.

  • Feed information back to marketing and sales colleagues to help develop marketing materials and commercial strategy.

  • Keep up to date with the latest scientific research and clinical data relevant to the company`s molecules.

  • Share safety information with the pharmacovigilance division.

  • Comply with all internal & external regulations and codes that apply to medical, regulatory and compliance perspectives.

  • Support for the development of Medical Plans.

  • Support for management of clinical studies including Company Investigational Studies (CISs) & Investigator Initiated Studies (IISs).


Supports product pre-launch, launch, and post-launch activities and communication plans within medical strategy and tactical plans.



Education / Qualifications / Skills:




  • A medical professional (Physician / Pharmacist) (Male/Female).

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.

  • Excellent command of English & Arabic.

  • Excellent presentation skills.

  • Able to identify local experts and manage local medical activities.

  • Mastering computer skills (Microsoft office).

  • Problem solving and able to manage complex situations.

  • Critical thinking and result oriented personality.

  • Proven analytical skills and able to prioritize the assigned tasks.

  • Able to work in a team and can identify potential opportunities.

  • Share knowledge with other team members.

  • Work as part of a team to reach common goals.

  • Deliver creative ideas for continuous improvement.

  • Develop good relationships with key opinion leaders.

  • Energetically embraces responsibilities, demonstrates ability to achieve goals •

  • Has strong initiative, and functions well as part of a cross-functional team •

  • Exhibits excellent time management •

  • Demonstrated ability to work independently •


Must be pro-active team player, flexible, and ability to work in ambiguous situations.


Experience:




  • Minimum 2-3 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry with preferred immunology & oncology experience.

  • Professional experience in Medical, Regulatory Affairs and/or Pharmacovigilance is preferred.

  • Business acumen courses/training is a plus.

  • Clinical research experience and GCP certification is a plus.

  • Biotech experience is a plus.

  • National experience is preferred.

  • Candidate must understand compliance considerations and demonstrate ability to work compliantly in a field-based role, within the medical organization, as well as across the commercial organization.

Post date: 8 August 2024
Publisher: Bayt
Post date: 8 August 2024
Publisher: Bayt