Senior Medical Advisor - Oncology

Our Oncology team is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of cancer patients worldwide. Our team of forward-thinking individuals achieve this through an unwavering commitment to support accessibility to medicine, providing new therapeutic solutions, and collaborating with governments and payers to ensure that people who need medicines have access to them. Our focus is on innovation and launch execution excellence; we translate breakthrough science into innovative medicines that help people with cancer across the globe.

The Medical Affairs team advances patient care by engaging in scientific exchange with external medical experts and industry professionals ensuring the scientific value of our products is realized. We engage and train internal employees to ensure that they thoroughly comprehend the science behind the medicine and review further unmet medical needs to bolster collaboration and further differentiate our portfolio.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of an individual like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.

We are now looking for a Senior Medical Advisor with a strong scientific background in medical as a GMC registered doctor. They should be confident in their communication and interpersonal skills with excellent strategic planning and organisational skills. They should also be able to prioritise work effectively; balancing both long- and short-term requirements and be able to demonstrate previous excellent cross functional working. The individual will have a good working knowledge of Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Pharmacovigilance laws and regulations and the ABPI code of conduct.

The defining skills therefore, will be well-developed communications skills combined with the ability to strategically plan, critically appraise progress, and work towards implementing change with external and internal stakeholders to bring about impactful objectives.

Role Purpose

1. The role will support the Oncology Therapy Area Medical Head and directorate members, in delivering the strategic medical plan for the allocated therapy area(s) and work in collaboration with them to deliver operational excellence of the UK and Ireland (UKI) medical affairs team.

2. To contribute to the development and implementation of strategic planning for the UK by providing medical insight and applying expert knowledge about the product and/or disease area.

3. To identify, develop and maintain credible relationships with healthcare professionals, providers and academic centres.

4. Champion cross functional partnership across the business in the delivery of company and team objectives.

5. Be a champion to maintain integrity and ethical governance for the organisation, always leading by example.

6. To function in a non-promotional capacity for 100% of the time spent in role.

Key Responsibilities

1. Provide fair, balanced, non-promotional and unbiased medical and scientific support in response to specific requests from healthcare professionals (HCPs) for further information on our product portfolio, clinical development program, or disease area(s) of interest.

2. Identify, develop and maintain professional and credible relationships with the health care community, especially Scientific Leaders (SL) and academic centres, in the relevant disease area(s) and in collaboration with relevant internal functions deliver improved patient outcomes in a given disease area.

3. Participates in the development of the Medical Affairs Plans (MAPs) and implements tactics identified in the MAP that align with the Company’s therapeutic areas of interest.

4. Working cross functionally undertake the delivery of specific (or support the delivery of) projects in the MAP e.g. symposia, advice seeking activities, medical education initiatives.

5. Collaborate with and provide support to field-based team members.

6. Develop partnerships with market access, regulatory and development colleagues to appropriately and rapidly gain access for patients to our medicines e.g. Health Technology Appraisals, patient access schemes, compassionate use programmes.

7. Interacts (e.g. group presentation or 1:1 meeting) as necessary and appropriate with healthcare organisations, health professionals, clinical investigators, and other health care providers and organisations in order to provide complete, accurate, balanced, scientifically rigorous and non-promotional medical and clinical information.

8. Participates in the development of the Medical Affairs Plans (MAPs) and implements tactics identified in the MAP that align with the Company’s therapeutic areas of interest.

9. Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of relevant products and relevant disease area(s) in order to act as an expert medical resource.

10. Represents the Medical Department at local or regional non-promotional medical events (e.g. Medical Congresses and Symposia), utilising the events to attain ongoing clinical knowledge and appropriately gather competitor intelligence.

11. In collaboration with colleagues facilitate the delivery of data generation activities (phase I -IV), including the identification of suitable research projects, research centres, investigators and innovative methods to generate data.

12. Act as an authoritative resource to all departments for the identification of SLs who can collaborate on specific projects or activities.

13. Supports commercial colleagues to provide balanced and scientific information and training, on therapeutic areas related to assigned disease entities.

14. Collaborates with our research laboratories/GCTO personnel to identify potential investigators for our clinical development programmes.

15. Completes all planning, organisational, and administrative activities necessary to ensure effective and efficient management of geographic territory.

16. Maintain compliance with all statutory requirements, internal processes and procedures for Pharmacovigilance.

17. Ensure that all activities and interactions are conducted in compliance with applicable local, global and national laws, regulations, guidelines, codes of conduct (including but not limited to the ABPI Code of Practice) company policies and accepted standards of best practice.

18. To assist when required with any activity relating to the Oncology Alliances.

Qualifications and Experience

1. A Medical degree is essential and industry experience is preferable.

2. High level of knowledge of ABPI Code of Practice, preferably a final signatory status.

3. Proven relationship building skills with scientific leaders (either in the pharmaceutical industry or healthcare/academic setting).

4. Understanding of the wider NHS environment and key opportunities for pharma and the NHS to partner effectively within the scope of the ABPI Code of Practice.

5. IT skills, including but not limited to use of MS Office software.

Required Professional Competencies

1. Business & Financial Acumen – understands and intelligently applies economic, financial and industry data to make business decisions that drive value for our company and our customers.

2. Working Across Boundaries – thinks and acts beyond one’s silo – bridges boundaries across teams, functions, divisions, geographies, external stakeholders and customers.

3. Strategic Thinking – visualizes the way forward, identifying opportunities that add value to the work, to the business and to our customers.

4. Project Management – organizes work efforts by prioritizing tasks, using resources optimally, establishing appropriate deadlines and ensuring on-time delivery.

5. Productive Communication – plans and delivers ideas and information to others in a clear and impactful manner.

6. Problem Solving – gathers and analyses data and effectively responds to new, complex or problematic situations; creates solutions that drive value for our company and our external stakeholders, incorporating innovative approaches where relevant.

Desirable core role competencies

1. Healthcare professional/provider, Market & Competitor Insights – ability to develop an understanding of science, medicine, clinical practice and therapeutic areas to address external needs, beliefs and goals and understand market dynamics, unmet medical needs, competitor landscape and trends with the goal of improving overall business and patient outcomes.

2. External Stakeholder Engagement – ability to add value to one-time stakeholder interactions (e.g., formulary discussion, pipeline presentations, hcp interactions) and/or identify, build and maintain compliant, long-term, sustainable relationships with external healthcare professionals, stakeholders and key influencers through a variety of relationship-building approaches.

3. Subject Matter Expert Engagement – the ability to identify and establish strategic partnerships with medical leaders, scientific leaders, and other external subject matter experts. develop and manage communication plans and engagement strategies for these experts. the ability to act as a single point of contact for these experts to foster an environment that presents our company as the preferred partner of choice.

4. Discovery, Development & Lifecycle Knowledge – knowledge of our pharmaceutical business model, including the end-to-end discovery, development and lifecycle management process for products (e.g., pharmaceuticals, vaccines, cosmetics, medical devices, otcs) and understanding of regulatory challenges and constraints on development and commercialization. ability to understand the pharmaceutical landscape (including recent technical innovations, development strategies, the disease environment and unmet patient needs) and its impact on our business strategy.

5. Regulatory, Compliance & Risk Management – the ability to understand, effectively apply and comply with internal and external standards (e.g. policies, standard operating procedures); appropriate ethical, legal and regulatory standards (e.g., pharmacovigilance, GCP); and product promotion on/off label compliance standards. the ability to identify, proactively manage, and mitigate risk to achieve positive business outcomes.

6. Disease Area & Product Knowledge – the ability to understand the therapeutic area and competitor products, therapeutic options, and the disease environment as it relates to patient and population characteristics, disease epidemiology, biomarkers, disease pathophysiology, genetic variation, comparative effectiveness, emerging trends, treatment practices, and unmet needs. the ability to establish relationships with scientific advisors and leverage research opportunities across the product lifecycle.

7. Medical Research Design & Execution – the ability to understand, oversee, and/or execute the design, planning, and performance of robust and efficient research activities using the appropriate tools, methodologies and processes to generate definitive outcomes. understanding of data collection methods, tools, processes, and quality control standards

8. Medical Program Design & Execution– the ability to understand, organize, and/or execute the design, planning, and performance of expert engagement activities (e.g., expert input, scientific/medical exchange, speaking activities). ability to understand and apply strategic expert utilization planning, business need assessment, compliance obligations, and program effectiveness assessment to expert engagement activities.

9. Data Review, Interpretation & Communication – the ability to consolidate and understand data, plan and/ or execute data analyses, summarize and synthesize data and objectively interpret results. the ability to objectively communicate analysis and results in verbal and written terms that can be understood by a variety of stakeholders.

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