MSD Senior Medical Manager Lung - Oncology 

United Kingdom, England, London 

537337570

Job Description

In this is role you will support the Lung Cancer medical strategy for our Oncology portfolio and work with the Therapy Area Head and other team members to deliver operational excellence.

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

It will be crucial that you are adept at being able to identify, develop and maintain credible relationships with healthcare professionals, providers and academic centres.

In this role you will:

• 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 Medical Affairs Plans (MAPs) and implements tactics identified in the MAP 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 MAP e.g. symposia, advice-seeking activities, medical education initiatives.

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

• 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 therapeutic areas related to assigned disease entities, and input into pre-launch activities as appropriate.

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

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

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

• 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.

Qualifications and Experience

• Medical degree or pharmacy degree preferred

• High level of knowledge of ABPI Code of Practice and GCP, final signatory status

• 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.

Required Professional Competencies

• 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.

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

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

• Project Management – organises work efforts by prioritising tasks, using resources optimally, establishing ap‐propriate deadlines and ensuring on-time delivery.

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

• 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.

Current Contingent Workers apply

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