Medical Advisor

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Job description

The role of the Medical Advisor, as key member of the medical department, is to interact significantly with internal and external customers.

Responsibilities

• Expertise and Medical Support: Provides broad and deep understanding of the therapeutic area cross-functionally. Seen as credible medical and scientific expert by internal and external customers.
• Coordinates and ensures qualitative product / disease and therapies training on assigned therapy area and medicines to internal and external customers, including the field force.
• Serves as a point of contact within the Medical Affairs team for external experts and in general in order to satisfy their needs for scientific information and knowledge in a therapeutic area relevant for the company’s medicines, and support the safe, effective and appropriate use of the company’s products.
• Collaborates actively as member of Brand Teams with other functions (such as Marketing, Sales, Tender manager) to ensure development and implementation of material and projects part of the strategic customer plans.
• Develops external contacts with KOLs, influencers, key associations, academic and regulatory community to gain insights in market and clinical evolutions including competitive intelligence and organize Advisory Boards when appropriate.
• Engages HCP’s in non-promotional medical and scientific discussions regarding all onmarket and in-development products or topics relating to disease states.
• Supports developing new data (through e.g. IITs, NIS and research collaborations), analyze existing data and distributes this internally.
• Provides new collaboration opportunities with HCOs and HCPs
• Develops, initiates and follows up of medical projects and/or clinical studies initiated within the therapeutic area of interest for Sandoz (e.g. research collaborations).
• Ensures that all material and activities are conducted with due regard to all applicable

local, global and national laws, regulations, guidelines, codes of conduct, Company
policies and accepted standards of best practice.

Profile

• Advanced degree in relevant scientific discipline
• Minimally 5 years of demonstrated experience in medical affairs and/or experience in a Medical Advisor/MSL function
• Fluent Dutch, French, English (oral and written).
• State-of-the-art medical, scientific and clinical knowledge.
• Ability to comprehensively learn about new subject areas and environments and translate into understandable language for the stakeholder
• Excellent written and spoken communication, negotiation and presentation skills, with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with external experts, physicians and other healthcare decision makers.
• Positive and ‘can-do’ approach; biased towards finding solutions and win/wins, responsiveness and flexibility.
• Excellent team playing and interpersonal skills; strong sense of ownership and accountability, and proven project management
• Professional respect and credibility with extensive knowledge of therapeutic area, encompassing business strategy and market trends.
• Familiar with respective health authority, GCP and ICH requirements, including regulations of promotional materials.
• Successful development, implementation and management of innovative programs and processes.
• Pronounced interest in commercial success of projects/products in TA/BU.

Our offer

• An attractive salary in line with your experience and skills.
• Fringe benefits including a company car, medical insurance, pension plan and a care plan.
• A supporting environment.
• Respect for the life-work balance.
• Career planning.
• A focus on professional and personal growth through training and coaching.
• Room for personal engagement to help shape our company’s future.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Cell phone reimbursement
• Company car
• Company phone
• Eco vouchers
• Flexible schedule
• Food allowance
• Fuel card
• Hospitalization insurance
• Internet reimbursement
• Mileage reimbursement
• Retirement plan
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Flexible hours
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

• 13th month salary
• Bonus pay
• Vacation money

Work Remotely:

• Temporarily due to COVID-19