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    Head of Medical Affairs - Johannesburg, South Africa - MNA Recruitment

    MNA Recruitment
    MNA Recruitment Johannesburg, South Africa

    22 hours ago

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    Description

    A leading pharmaceutical company has a vacancy for a Head of Medical Affairs.

    Job Purpose:
    This role functions internally as the lead in developing and executing the most efficient and integrated medical/scientific strategy, including scientific evidence generation and scientific information exchange with all key stakeholders. Externally, the role assists health care professionals to optimize patient care and treatment outcomes through evidence-based decisions and support.

    Key Responsibilities:

    Medico-marketing Support

    • Developing and executing a highly efficient and integrated medico-marketing strategy, including scientific evidence generation and scientific information exchange with all key stakeholders
    • Provide strategic input for the elaboration of brand plans by being the center of scientific expertise
    • Providing relevant data evidence to ensure that the overall strategy is clearly defined and consistent with medical affairs and commercial strategic objectives.
    • Reviewing and approving medical and scientific content of Regulatory, Safety, Communications, Medical Affairs, and Commercial
    • Pro-actively providing guidance to marketing and sales teams
    • Webinars/CMEs/Advisory Board meetings/Preceptorship programs - preparing scientific agenda, providing literature & presentation support as required, co-ordination with partners/stakeholders
    • Strategic support for new launch & existing products – medical/scientific strategy for new launches and strategic LCM inputs for existing products
    • Providing leadership and strategic direction for interactions and communications with external customers, key organizations, and institutions.
    • Collaborating the commercial teams to address questions and opportunities.
    • Informing stakeholders of unmet needs and facilitating appropriate approaches to address them.
    • Interacting with experts at medical meetings, advisory boards, and outreach meetings to represent the company and strengthen its reputation in the therapeutic areas.
    • Maintaining external orientation by participating actively in external events and activities in our chosen spaces
    • Develop and implement a strong advocacy plan with experts in the field, academics and professionals and/or patient associations. (Prior knowledge of and established relationships with key opinion leaders in our key spaces considered an asset).
    • Develop a strong advocacy program and organise advisory boards or roundtables to build and reinforce product awareness and gain strategic insights for medical affairs and commercial strategy.
    • Ensure the scientific integrity of information, and relationships with healthcare providers and patient advocacy groups.

    Compliance in medico-marketing activity

    • Ensuring compliance in medical affairs and medico-marketing activities
    • Ensuring compliance in selection of speakers, deciding FMV and evaluating participation criteria

    Evidence generation activities

    • Evidence generation activity and publications – identify needs for post-marketing programmes and oversee their end-to-end management and execution.

    Evaluation of New Products

    • Evaluation of new products - identifying products to enable the building of a robust portfolio
    • Providing medical rationale & analysis for selected product Portfolios & CoE teams
    • Conduct of Advisory board meetings for opinion of KOLs on new products

    Training and Development

    • Collaborate with Training Manager to enhance training program on disease and competitor products and ensure continuous update
    • Support Training Manager in developing content and conducting training sessions for new launches as well as scientific updates on existing products

    Scientific Updates

    • Lead and contribute to a system of Competitive intelligence and monitoring of publications
    • Compilation and circulation of regular scientific updates on major brands/therapy areas

    Activities for Digital Platforms & Other

    • Ensure a patient-centric approach to development of medical strategy both for product and device, as well as possible services which can enhance the value proposition of the product
    • Digital Platforms and related activities - support for digital activities like Pill plus, Digital content quality review, revision in content topics, Support for website launch, Webinars, etc
    • Support market research, opportunity validation, and whitespace analysis to identify new opportunities for new and existing features and functionalities.
    • Partner with the central product teams to build product roadmaps as per needs of the user(s) and market.
    • Planning of the product release or introduction in the country
    • Engage with potential customers and internal stakeholders to understand problems and potential business opportunities in their respective markets and therapy areas.
    • Identify and lead discussions with potential partners & service providers for enabling new services and revenue streams around the product.
    • Support, planning and monitoring of Product MVPs, Pilot and Launch activities in the market along with central product team
    • Lead/oversee data generation activities
    • Conceptualisation, development, roll-out and monitoring of differentiated Patient Support Programmes for key products

    Requirements

    Education, Experience & Personal Attributes

    • Degree in Medicine with at least 5 years of industry experience in Medical Affairs
    • In-depth understanding of and proven success in how to conceptualize, design, and execute patient programmes
    • Broad and formal leadership experience, including excellent "leadership presence" to represent Medical Affairs within the company, to other functions, and to leaders at every level.
    • Excellent skills working with experts from other functions and influencing decision making
    • High energy and an absolute commitment to a culture that operates with high ethical standards and strives to exceed all goals and objectives.
    • Demonstrated ability to inspire confidence while working demonstrating sound scientific judgment
    • Comfort operating in a consensus-building role but also able to make specific recommendations and decisions and drive for implementation.
    • Ability to inspire confidence, both internally and externally, through leading by example and demonstrating collaborative behavior.
    • Demonstrated ability to organize and lead expert Scientific Advisory Panels.
    • Ability to understand and effectively communicate scientific and medical data results and information to internal and external stakeholders.
    • Excellent communication skills with the ability to build solid working relationships with the commercial organisation, as well as negotiate and influence
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