Job Description
Your responsibilities:
Sandoz is a global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines, committed to playing a leading role in driving access to medicine worldwide.
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Field-based Medical Affairs role that interacts with healthcare professionals (HCPs) such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists and decision-makers to deliver effective, credible and appropriate engagement activities and communication of evidence-based scientific, medical, technical and operational topics .
- Implementation of Sandoz Medical Plans on regional level
- Work in conjunction with relevant Medical Advisor/Manger to ensure that time and activities are fully aligned to and focused on delivery of regional Medical plan.
- Maintain highest scientific standards and expertise in order to establish role as regional field-based reference point for non-promotional scientific expertise and medical education
- Collection, analysis and assimilation of regional medical intelligence. Utilise these insights to shape Sandoz product strategy
- Build and maintain close cross functional working with Medical, Sales & Marketing colleagues
- Healthcare Professional Partnerships & scientific exchange
- Create and deliver regional HCP mapping and engagement plans
- Establish and maintain strong peer-to-peer collaborations and professional relationships with HCPs via legitimate scientific exchange to advance understanding of treatment and research trends and current scientific, medical, technical and operational debate
- Work with HCPs to improve patient care solutions, based upon sound scientific, medical & pharmaceutical evidence
- Respond to individual queries from HCPs & support research & educational requests from key centres when appropriate to do so
- Represent Sandoz at regional and national congresses and education programmes
- Plan and deliver regional advisory board meetings: Clinical, Pharmacy & Payer Timely communication of publications (abstracts, posters, case studies and peer reviewed papers)
- Trial and Research activities
- Provide study and site level feasibility & research site recommendations & work in conjunction with Clinical Research Medical Advisor (CRMA) and Medical Advisor/Manager to ensure that appropriate UK sites and investigators are nominated for global and local trial programmes
- Support CRMA activities to deliver global pipeline for sites within region
- Support post-marketing commitment and phase 4 studies within region in line with local plan
- Facilitate and maintain local investigator initiated trials, scientific & research projects and audits as appropriate
- Compliance and Pharmacovigilance
- Demonstrate and maintain a high level of understanding of ABPI code and ensure activities are compliant
- Ensure training is completed within given time frame and remains updated
- Conduct exchanges that are science-based, relevant, balanced and of a non-promotional nature in keeping with Sandoz code of conduct and ABPI Code of Practice requirements.
- Operate with integrity and proactively contributes to a credible image for Sandoz in the local Health Care & Medical & Scientific community
Minimum requirements
What you’ll bring to the role:
- Previous MSL experience highly desired
- A healthcare professional or life sciences degree, ideally with postgraduate qualifications
- Driven, motivated self-starter with the potential to grow with the role
- Good knowledge of the NHS and funding/access programs in the UK
- Ability to lead regional & national medical and clinical projects
- Proven ability to run local, regional & national KOL and stakeholder engagement programs and to execute clinical programs to plan
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)
- Flexibility to accept multiple tasks of varying degrees of complexity