Regional Medical Lead, Rare Diseases

The Regional Medical Lead, Rare Diseases will be responsible for ensuring efficient and effective planning, execution, and monitoring of the regional medical-scientific strategy across the lifecycle of the products in the respective therapy area.

In this role, you will lead performance optimization while maintaining governance oversight of medical launch KPIs, including target patient outcomes, regional activities related to ME engagement, evidence generation as per strategic needs of the product lifecycle.

You will be responsible for ensuring the brand strategies and action plans integrate critical needs of the region, resulting infit-for-purpose medical content as per local county needs. You are also responsible for Phase IV budget planning and investment for the therapy area.

Medical Affairs:

·       Act as regional medical affairs expert for the respective therapy area

·       Articulate the consolidated medical voice for the region

·       Define the medical affairs strategy and plan, in coordination with the brand /TA strategy.

·       Operational excellence in medical affairs: medical insights at a regional level, data gaps and RWE studies proposed (subject to client approval), medical activities during pre-launch and launch – growth phase, scientific support to promotional events, omnichannel engagement across the region etc.

·       Identify the needs of medical affairs capabilities in countries to support the country local medical team in terms of training and strategic inputs on the brand plans.

·       Collation of region-specific insights into where appropriate to feed into brand strategy.

·       Develop and execute tactical Medical Affairs strategies related to external partner management, medical education, evidence generation and scientific communications.

·       Prepare and track regional medical KPIs for the therapy area with special focus on external impact on medical experts and external stakeholders.

·       Establish high level scientific relationships and partnerships with Medical Societies, MEs and other key stakeholders / institutions or other notified bodies.

·       Develop strategy to generate scientific non promotional content to support the creation of a scientific community of HCPs via digital platform / channels to improve patient care in selected categories.

·       Ensure respective team provides support with adequate scientific product knowledge training to the commercial teams.

Provide input into development and implementation of successful reimbursement and market-access strategies.

Requirements

• Proven track record and network in scientific exchange with key healthcare professionals, medical entities, and government committees.
• Outside-in approach in development of clinical research & medical affairs strategic plan.
• Digital/Omni channel approach in planning and executing medical expert engagement plans.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Creativity/Innovation.
• Changeagility and entrepreneurial spirit.
• Commitment to career growth in company and resilience to persevere.
• Demonstrate fluency in English, both written and spoken.