Medical Affairs Mgr-MED000744
Description
The Medical Affairs Manager is part of the country Medical Affairs Department. This position has a significant impact on our ability to effectively translate medical science into relevant business opportunities with high standards of local regulatory and compliance requirements. The role requires the ability to interact with a sort of different stakeholders like key scientific leaders, marketing and sales peers, decision makers as well as regulatory authorities in order to effectively address technical issues for MSD products and therapeutic areas of interest
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Scientific Leadership:
- Responsible for scientific knowledge management, translating information into strategic advice on therapeutic areas of interest for MSD products / competitors;
- Interaction with Scientific Leaders (SL) providing support to business units;
- Organize and conduct local advisory boards and Expert Input Forum meetings and collect customer needs from SLs;
- Attend stand alone and satellite scientific events.
- Provides medical information requests/answers to questions from local customers.
Internal Support:
- Support to products team, providing scientific support to achieve marketing / strategic objectives;
- Support to inclusion of Merck products in hospital formularies and in local therapeutic guidelines;
- Participate in strategic defense of MSD products with key decisions makers;
- Advise to legal and regulatory departments on the inquiries concerning MSD products;
- Provide sales representatives technical training.
Medical Review
- Review of locally developed materials to ensure medical relevance and compliance with regulations;
- Limited review of regionally developed materials to ensure compliance with local legal regulations, and to local customized materials.
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DPOC
- Act as backup for the DPOC person in the subsidiary.
Regulatory
- Advises Regulatory Affairs on the medical and scientific aspects of MSD products;
Pharmacovigilance
- Provides support to activities that assure reporting of Pharmacovigilance cases;
Clinical Trials
- Provide suggestions for clinical research (investigators, objectives, design, sites, studies) upon request;
- Manage post-development portfolio of studies including IISPs and local studies of respective area;
Qualifications
Required:
- MD University degree from accredited university;
- ID – ICU - Internal Medicine specialty background and a solid knowledge of a variety of disease areas and therapies;
- Excellent communication and people skills;
- Results oriented;
- Fluent in English;
Desired
- Experience in Medical Affairs in a first tier pharmaceutical industry;
- Experience with international/local clinical research and Pharmacovigilance;
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Job: Medical Affairs (M.D.) - Field Based
Job Title: Sr. Spclst, Medical Affairs
Primary Location: LATAM-Peru-Lima-Lima
Employee Status: Regular
Number of Openings: 1
Description
The Medical Affairs Manager is part of the country Medical Affairs Department. This position has a significant impact on our ability to effectively translate medical science into relevant business opportunities with high standards of local regulatory and compliance requirements. The role requires the ability to interact with a sort of different stakeholders like key scientific leaders, marketing and sales peers, decision makers as well as regulatory authorities in order to effectively address technical issues for MSD products and therapeutic areas of interest
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Scientific Leadership:
- Responsible for scientific knowledge management, translating information into strategic advice on therapeutic areas of interest for MSD products / competitors;
- Interaction with Scientific Leaders (SL) providing support to business units;
- Organize and conduct local advisory boards and Expert Input Forum meetings and collect customer needs from SLs;
- Attend stand alone and satellite scientific events.
- Provides medical information requests/answers to questions from local customers.
Internal Support:
- Support to products team, providing scientific support to achieve marketing / strategic objectives;
- Support to inclusion of Merck products in hospital formularies and in local therapeutic guidelines;
- Participate in strategic defense of MSD products with key decisions makers;
- Advise to legal and regulatory departments on the inquiries concerning MSD products;
- Provide sales representatives technical training.
Medical Review
- Review of locally developed materials to ensure medical relevance and compliance with regulations;
- Limited review of regionally developed materials to ensure compliance with local legal regulations, and to local customized materials.
*
DPOC
- Act as backup for the DPOC person in the subsidiary.
Regulatory
- Advises Regulatory Affairs on the medical and scientific aspects of MSD products;
Pharmacovigilance
- Provides support to activities that assure reporting of Pharmacovigilance cases;
Clinical Trials
- Provide suggestions for clinical research (investigators, objectives, design, sites, studies) upon request;
- Manage post-development portfolio of studies including IISPs and local studies of respective area;
Qualifications
Required:
- MD University degree from accredited university;
- ID – ICU - Internal Medicine specialty background and a solid knowledge of a variety of disease areas and therapies;
- Excellent communication and people skills;
- Results oriented;
- Fluent in English;
Desired
- Experience in Medical Affairs in a first tier pharmaceutical industry;
- Experience with international/local clinical research and Pharmacovigilance;
*LI-KT1
Job: Medical Affairs (M.D.) - Field Based
Job Title: Sr. Spclst, Medical Affairs
Primary Location: LATAM-Peru-Lima-Lima
Employee Status: Regular
Number of Openings: 1