Medical Manager Job Template
Job Title: Haemato-oncology Medical Manager (MM)
Reports to: Oncology & Specialty Group Medical Manager
Based in: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Job Purpose
The Haemato-Oncology Medical Manager (MM) is primarily an office-based role responsible for managing the product lifecycle from the pre-authorization phase through local registration, launch, and post-launch stages. This involves the development and implementation of medical plans and scientific activities to facilitate patient access to GSK brands and establish scientific leadership. The MM will build a deep understanding of our compounds and develop relationships with key external experts (EEs). The role requires collaboration with key stakeholders to develop and drive local operating company (LOC) strategies, ensuring a thorough understanding of the scientific value of our products and their appropriate use to meet patients' needs through optimal use of available evidence, medical education, and access initiatives.
Core Responsibilities:
The MM is expected to spend at least 30% of his/her time externally to gather insights about GSK compounds, medical unmet needs, competitive landscape, etc, and execute plans. Key responsibilities include:
- Managing the brand lifecycle (pre-authorization, authorization, pre-launch, launch, post-launch).
- Developing and executing brand medical affairs plans.
- Identifying evidence gaps and working with the above-country team to address them.
- Supporting patient access to GSK brands.
- Providing product and disease area information to internal and external stakeholders.
- Attending local and international congresses and disseminating updates to stakeholders.
- Ensuring strategic alignment cross functionally.
- Ensuring full compliance with GSK Code, SOPs, and local laws and regulations.
- Providing medical training to EEs and speakers.
- Representing GSK at non-promotional meetings.
- Collecting insights and responding to medical information queries.
- Engaging in non-promotional discussions with EEs, payers, government, and formularies.
- Driving EE education journey using GSK tools (e.g., AKU, ADOpT, mVOC, mD2i).
Internal Client Group:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and implement an effective Medical Affairs plan.
- Partner with commercial to develop country-specific strategic and medical plans to provide scientific support for GSK internal stakeholder.
- Provide medical insights to commercial colleagues based on patient needs and HCP feedback.
- Deliver scientific training and updates to stakeholders.
- Work cross-functionally to identify and develop TA EEs lists and brand value propositions.
External Customer Base:
General
- Uphold GSK’s values: Ambitious for patients, Accountable for impact, and Do the Right Thing in all interactions and exchanges of information between GSK and external communities.
- Develop and implement medical plans in conjunction with the GMM/CMD and internal stakeholders.
KEEs Interactions
- Lead and execute scientific activities to establish scientific leadership with Key EEs.
- Deliver medical education and respond to medical information queries.
- Support clinical development by nominating investigators and facilitating GSK clinical trials.
- Record and share EEs insights in a timely manner.
Medical Information:
- Respond to unsolicited requests for on- or off-label information or safety concerns from HCPs in a timely and accurate manner, documenting these responses in the Medical Information system.
- Ensure alignment with GSK ways of working regarding systems, documentation, and archiving of medical information queries.
Medical Governance:
- Act as a medical governance champion within the medical and commercial teams, ensuring awareness and implementation of relevant SOPs in all activities.
- Maintain a proactive approach to facilitate increased scientific share of voice and deliver effective engagements that address identified medical and educational needs.
- Stay updated and operate within relevant Codes of Conduct and SOPs.
- Work proactively with EEs to ensure understanding of GSK ways of working.
Complexity:
- Abide by the medical capability model skills level.
- Comfortable working across boundaries in a matrix organization across functions, geographies, and cultures.
- Individual contributor with medium to high job complexity and a high level of autonomy and accountability.
- Requires appropriate knowledge of the therapeutic area and experience in the Saudi market.
Qualifications, Knowledge & Skills:
- Must have Medical Degree or Pharmaceutical degree.
- Must have at least 2-years’ experience as a Medical Manager.
- Must have at least 5-years’ experience within the haematological malignancies therapy areas.
- Must have a valid license from the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.
- High level of medical expert knowledge in Multiple Myeloma is strongly preferred.
- Strong communication skills, with high ability to effectively deliver messages & successfully establish relations with all internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience in the preparation & delivery of effective scientific presentations with good public speaking skills in front of the medical audience (speaking at scientific educational events, congresses;)
- Ability to analyse, represent and discuss scientific data in the therapeutic area with external and internal partners.
- High level of discipline, ability to organize the activity and to reasonably use the working time within the established independence limits.
- Developed skills in business planning, business orientation and working under the dynamically changing conditions,
- Fluent in professional English language. Arabic language is an advantage.
- Postgraduate study in the relevant TA and or Business degree is an advantage.
Closing Date: 3 December 2024
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