Medical Advisor

Introduction: As a Medical Advisor, you will collaborate with the Medical Affairs Manager and key stakeholders, including healthcare professionals and researchers, to provide scientific and clinical insights. Your role involves gathering, analyzing, and presenting data on medical research, clinical trials, and patient outcomes. You will offer strategic recommendations to address challenges and opportunities in the medical field.

Key Responsibilities:

Stakeholder Engagement

• Identify and build relationships with key medical experts and researchers and understand their needs and provide them with credible scientific expertise.
• Build and maintain relationships with key medical experts and follow up with them regularly to gather insights
• Work with medical experts to set up and manage data generation projects and ensure these projects align with product strategies and generate valid data.
• Share the results of data generation projects with relevant customers and ensure the data is communicated effectively through reports, publications, and presentations.

Medical Operating Plan Implementation and Strategy Development

• Develop and implement Country Medical Plans in assigned therapeutic areas
• Collect information that could impact medical plans and product development ,and use this information to improve company strategies
• Contribute to the development of medical plans for products by providing medical insights to help clarify business opportunities and challenges
• Create specific medical and publication plans for therapy areas and develop engagement plans for key opinion leaders and stakeholders.

Portfolio Management

• Create and execute high-quality educational programs in conjunction with external experts for healthcare professionals and therapeutic area experts
• Create accurate and useful materials like slide sets and clinical cases to support the medical strategy
• Help organize and manage proper clinically conducted studies to gather data on treatments.
• Provide scientific knowledge to other teams within the company and help them understand the therapeutic areas and the science behind the treatments.
• Provide accurate and timely information to healthcare professionals about medical topics.
• Keep up to date with the latest information on diseases, treatments, and products to acquire deep understanding of the therapy areas you work in.
• Stay informed about the latest scientific and clinical information on treatment related to cardiometabolic vascular diseases. Understand both the company's products and competitors' products. Gather information on medical topics, competitors, and market trends.
• Collect information that could impact medical plans and product development and use this information to improve the company's strategies.
• Develop and implement action plans in line with the company's medical strategy to ensure products are accessible to patients.
• Provide regular medical updates to the commercial team and ensure they have the information they need to succeed.

Business Impact

• Assist in organizing and participating in medical and scientific meetings and represent the company at these events.
• Manage special programs for patients who need access to treatments.
• Provide regular medical updates to the commercial team and ensure they have the information they need to succeed
• Provide medical and scientific support for marketing and sales activities.
• Participate in round tables, symposia, and medical education activities.

Compliance and Ethics

• Follow the company's Code of Ethics, uphold high professional standards, and manage compliance risks.
• Ensure all approval processes are followed and maintain accurate records.
• Maintain scientific and medical compliance, governance, and risk management, adhering to the highest ethical standards.

Effective teamwork, self-management and alignment with Servier values

• Embrace and demonstrate Servier’s values:
  • Dare to innovate
  • Care
  • Grow by sharing
  • Commit to succeed
• Handle stress in ways that do not negatively impact others
• Plan and manage own workflow, anticipating obstacles, juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed timeframes and according to quality standards
• Act in an ethical, transparent and morally defensible manner, including highlighting unethical practices
• Continually share, debate and communicate learnings
• Flag and debate issues constructively
• Collaborate with others to achieve shared goals
• Display skill at resolving conflict and mentoring/coaching others where needed

Required Skills and Expertise

TECHNICAL

• Highest knowledge of relevant Servier products and disease areas, including competitor products
• Sound knowledge of Medical Affairs
• Strong understanding of customer and market dynamics
• Business development knowledge
• Able to respond to scientific and medical enquiries with the most up-to-date, accurate and relevant information, within a stipulated time frame
• Pharmaceutical Marketing Code policies and procedures and relevant regulatory requirements
• Servier International SOP’s
• Servier values

BEHAVIOURAL

• Able to build trusted advisor relationships and communicate at all levels (internally and externally)
• Able to influence cross-functional teams (e.g marketing, sales) ensuring strong medical governance
• Analytical and project management skills
• Highly motivated and able to learn large amounts of scientific content which then needs to be communicated in a clear, concise fashion through letters and presentations
• Able to display strong teamwork in working closely with relevant internal stakeholders to achieve common goals

Minimum Requirements

• Relevant Life Sciences degree
• Qualified medical professional (e.g. doctor / pharmacist); PhD / PharmD qualification advantageous
• 2+ years’ Medical Affairs experience in the pharmaceutical industry

Indispensable Qualities:

• Attention to detail.
• Initiative taker
• Problem Solving skills.
• Mathematically inclined
• Fast learner

What we offer you:

We revisit compensation annually to ensure that we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus which varies based on seniority but starts at a range up to 10%. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals.

• Personal learning and development budget
• Annual compensation review
• Annual salary calculated at 13 months.
• Recognition programmes
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme

Applicants that meet the criteria may forward their udated CVs and salary information to [email protected]