Medical Advisor

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain peer-to-peer collaborations and relationships with key medical experts in the Biotechnology community.
• Develop territory field medical plan and TLs Interaction plans based on therapeutic area objectives and TLs needs.
• Support clinical development initiatives including site identification, trial recruitment, registry, and presentation of final approved data.
• Collaborate with physicians on medical affairs initiatives including publications, advisory boards, medical education opportunities, training, and speaker development.
• Serve as scientific peer-to-peer resource to external disease experts and internal stakeholders.
• Support the medical community with up-to-date medical information, robust disease expertise, and product information.
• Communicate clinical insights on new data to the company medical Affairs and to inform medical strategy for the assigned therapeutic area.
• Train internal & external stakeholders on key scientific and medical topics in relevant therapeutic area.
• Maintain effective and appropriate communication among internal stakeholders while maintaining full compliance with relevant requirements.
• Generate tactical regional plans to provide needs based, value-added support of the medical and scientific community in-line with company goals.
• Uses systems to strategically map, identify, profile, and prioritize thought leaders in line with the medical plan and goals.
• Maintain accurate reporting and documentation of MSL activities.
• Provide medical and scientific information to respond to KOLs' technical questions about company`s product.
• Lead meetings with KOLs to discuss relevant scientific literature and address their enquiries.
• Make educational presentations to senior doctors and researchers, for example on clinical trial data.
• Feed information back to marketing and sales colleagues to help develop marketing materials and commercial strategy.
• Keep up to date with the latest scientific research and clinical data relevant to the company`s molecules.
• Share safety information with the pharmacovigilance division.
• Comply with all internal & external regulations and codes that apply to medical, regulatory and compliance perspectives.
• Support for the development of Medical Plans.
• Support for management of clinical studies including Company Investigational Studies (CISs) & Investigator Initiated Studies (IISs).

Supports product pre-launch, launch, and post-launch activities and communication plans within medical strategy and tactical plans.

Education / Qualifications / Skills:

• A medical professional (Physician / Pharmacist) (Male/Female).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent command of English & Arabic.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Able to identify local experts and manage local medical activities.
• Mastering computer skills (Microsoft office).
• Problem solving and able to manage complex situations.
• Critical thinking and result oriented personality.
• Proven analytical skills and able to prioritize the assigned tasks.
• Able to work in a team and can identify potential opportunities.
• Share knowledge with other team members.
• Work as part of a team to reach common goals.
• Deliver creative ideas for continuous improvement.
• Develop good relationships with key opinion leaders.
• Energetically embraces responsibilities, demonstrates ability to achieve goals •
• Has strong initiative, and functions well as part of a cross-functional team •
• Exhibits excellent time management •
• Demonstrated ability to work independently •

Must be pro-active team player, flexible, and ability to work in ambiguous situations.

Experience:

• Minimum 2-3 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry with preferred immunology & oncology experience.
• Professional experience in Medical, Regulatory Affairs and/or Pharmacovigilance is preferred.
• Business acumen courses/training is a plus.
• Clinical research experience and GCP certification is a plus.
• Biotech experience is a plus.
• National experience is preferred.
• Candidate must understand compliance considerations and demonstrate ability to work compliantly in a field-based role, within the medical organization, as well as across the commercial organization.
• CV must be in English