MSD Senior Medical Manager HIV 

United Kingdom, England, London 

162331429

Job Description

As the Senior Medical Manager, you will support the General & Speciality Medicine portfolio strategy with a focus on the HIV therapy area. You’ll lead the development and implementation of the HIV medical plan in the UK by providing medical insight and applying expert knowledge on our portfolio or the disease area. You’ll identify, develop and maintain strong relationships with healthcare professionals, providers and academic centres whilst being a champion of cross functional partnership with local, regional and global colleagues.

What you will do:

• 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.

• 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.

• Participates in the development of the Country Medical Affairs Plans (CMAPs) and implements tactics identified in the CMAP that align with the Company’s therapeutic areas of interest.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Supports our commercial colleagues to provide balanced and scientific information and training, on our therapeutic areas, and input into pre-launch activities as appropriate.

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

• Maintain compliance with all statutory requirements, internal processes and procedures forPharmacovigilance.

• 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.

What you will need:

• Medical degree or pharmacy degree.

• High level of knowledge of ABPI Code of Practice and GCP, final signatory status or a potential to attain final signatory status within a reasonable timeframe.

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

• 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.

• Therapy Area knowledge and experience either in the pharmaceutical industry or in a healthcare setting preferred.

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

Current Contingent Workers apply

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