Senior Medical Advisor Job Description
Senior medical advisor
provides technical leadership and oversight on project efforts related pharmaceutical systems strengthening, including topics such as pharmaceutical policy and management, access to medicines, quality assurance of medicines, promotion of rational use of medicines, containment of antimicrobial resistance, medicines regulatory systems strengthening.
Senior Medical Advisor Duties & Responsibilities
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ANDA development in regulatory strategy
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Under Director and DVP oversight, provide medical oversight for on-market product and product performance functions, including monitoring of product safety related items
Reviews and evaluates product performance data and trends to provide early identification of issues related to product performance or usage concerns in order to minimize clinical safety risk
Provide training for the Product Performance group
Plan and coordinate medical marketing and scientific communication activities (advisory boards, consultancy meetings, scientific conferences, networking with KOLs)
Works with health economics and Corp
Design of post launch data generation projects to generate data for Evolocumab in clinical practice and to describe treatment pattern/patient care map
Design projects to evaluate existing registries and data bases
Senior Medical Advisor Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Senior Medical Advisor
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Education for Senior Medical Advisor
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Employers hiring for the senior medical advisor job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Medical, Medicine, Management, Healthcare, Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Public Health, Business, Graduate, Science
Skills for Senior Medical Advisor
Desired skills for senior medical advisor include:
Good clinical practice
HKAPI Code of Practices
Society and KOLs
Commercialization and business practices
Experience of their implementation within the business environment
Management
Pharmaceutical product development
Analysis and reporting
Medicines Act and the Human Medicines Regulations
Regulatory guidelines
Desired experience for senior medical advisor includes:
Take responsibility for and manage the execution of the medical strategic plan
To provide leadership and support to others in the Medical Affairs teams
Ensuring training of staff to meet technical, medical and interpersonal challenges of their roles
Ensure adverse events and pregnancy reports are duly processed in line with company procedures and assist in assessment of adverse event reports originating in the UK and Ireland for completeness, consistency and reporting requirements
Provide portfolio of data and medical/scientific input to HTA or other market access submissions as required
Advise on medical safety or clinical issues as required
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Senior Medical Advisor Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior medical advisor. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior medical advisor
- Take ownership of local observational study projects
- Provide medical input and collaborate with VA&P in local HE data generation projects to support reimbursement
- Discussion of scientific projects with key stake holders including but not limited to ISS to support lifecycle
- Support global/international ASTs (feasibility, site selection, study conduct and close out)
- Support publications with national SEs and with support from medical writing (EU-HQ)
- Shape strategy for sustainable clinical data dissemination (scientific symposia, stand alone meetings)
- Coordinate conduct of national Ad-Boards
- Ensure the timely and appropriate delivery of relevant scientific information including scientific data, clinically-relevant level of health economics and outcome research data, and information on BI’s pipeline or marketed products to key decision makers (KDMs) with appropriate scientific expertise within identified regional accounts
- Build strong and trusted relationships with the medical and scientific leadership at the account by serving as the Medical point of contact
- Build strong and trusted relationships with the medical and scientific leadership at the account by serving as the lead Medical point of contact
Qualifications for senior medical advisor
- Registered Medical Doctor
- Extensive pharmaceutical industry experience including experience in medical affairs
- Final Signatory - desirable
- Demonstrable understanding of the ABPI Code of Practice
- Excellent verbal and written communication and organisational skills
- The AMA will adhere to all relevant BI policies and procedures and compliance expectations for AMA activities
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of senior medical advisor. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior medical advisor
- Authors/reviews abstracts and publications of domestic IST or PMS , and global (when requested) studies
- Development and execution of country medical strategy
- Scientific relationships at the country level
- Scientific engagement with MEs
- Scientific presentations to physicians, hospital departments, and congresses
- Protocol proposals and other evidence generation activities
- Review and approval of promotional materials
- Connections with regional medical network meetings and other forums
- Support to clinical studies
- Develop with KOLs medical activities developed at the central level
Qualifications for senior medical advisor
- Prior experience interacting with or working within a payer or organized provider highly preferred
- Prior experience working in/across multiple therapeutic areas preferred
- Solid understanding of the healthcare environment and its impact on pharmaceutical companies, payers and organized providers preferred
- Prior training/experience in outcomes research and evidence based medicine preferred
- Knowledge of key concepts, laws and regulations governing scientific exchange and communications and activities by field based medical personnel, and knowledge of all company policies and procedures relevant to AMA activities
- Excellent evaluative and listening skills
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior medical advisor. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior medical advisor
- Provide proactive, updated and effective medical input to internal stakeholders during the pre-launch, peri-launch and post-launch phase of a brand as part of its life cycle management
- Support scientific activities with regional KOLs and Scientific Societies
- Providing medical and technical expertise and input into scientific submissions
- Implementation of the medical-scientific programmes related to market access and market development
- Execution of the regional thought leaders strategy and programmes
- Implementation of the RCEGI(Russia, Central Europe, Greece and Israel) medical-scientific communication programmes
- Execution of the RCEGI ‘disease area’ health care professional training and education strategy and programmes
- RCEGI clinical development strategy and programmes
- Internal support and training
- Ensure that all Medical Affairs applicable regulations, policies, and procedures are adhered to
Qualifications for senior medical advisor
- Awareness and understanding of clinical trial regulations
- Ability to multitask and meet aggressive timelines/deadlines
- Master’s degree, from an accredited institution, in a scientific discipline required
- Bachelor’s degree with Healthcare Professional License in related field
- Experience in senior advisory positions
- Evaluating a response environment and the options for dealing with it
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior medical advisor. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior medical advisor
- In this context you collaborate with cross-functional teams, like Clinical Research, Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, Scientific Affairs, Marketing, Communications and Outcomes Research
- You interact with key healthcare providers to exchange scientific and medical ideas, including Advisory Boards and presentations at international meetings
- With your expertise you coordinate phase IIIb trials and "Investigator-Initiated Studies" (IIS) from a scientific, medical and strategic perspective
- You provide scientific and medical input to publication strategy and planning
- Furthermore, you collaborate with commercial organizations and provide scientific input for the development and review of promotional materials, documents and presentations for the assigned drugs and/or indications
- Utilizing your networking skills you initiate and build collaborations with local Medical Affairs in other countries
- Medical Advisor – is required to support business decision-making in China by providing medical and technical inputs for the defined therapeutic areas
- Medical Advisor – is pro-actively involved in all aspects of a product’s life cycle, from pre-launch to subsequent promotion, through marketing and sales, by providing medical input to enhance the product’s value in all areas of business
- As (Senior) Global Medical Advisor you develop and implement the Global Medical Affairs strategy for an immunology compound
- You interact with key healthcare providers to exchange scientific and medical ideas, including Advisory Boards and hold presentations at international meetings
Qualifications for senior medical advisor
- Ensures that at all times is adequately qualified and trained in the tasks required to perform
- Significant impact on maintenance of crucial safety and regulatory (legal) compliance, essential to Novartis business continuity
- MD or/and PhD
- Existing network of German KOLs in Multiple Sclerosis
- Effective communication at all times
- Superior interpersonal and organizational skills with high emotional intelligence
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior medical advisor. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior medical advisor
- Leads effort to recruit and hire RMAs within the Business Unit (BU)
- Build a strong and cohesive RMA team and responsible for developing, evaluating and delivering core training for RMAs within BU to ensure that educational excellence is achieved
- Manages the performance and development of RMAs towards accountability, ownership and leadership using the means of objective setting, tracking and control of execution and providing resources in accordance with situational demands
- Accountable for the quality and consistency of scientific and medical knowledge of the RMAs within the BU
- Provides coaching and feedback on job performance for RMAs within the BU
- Accountable for the effective/optimal integration of the RMA Team with the MAT and Marketing team
- Prioritizes work and resources across the Marketing team (MKTG) and manages field-based project responsibilities as they pertain to the RMAs
- Responsible for identifying and resolving the therapeutic area operational needs/issues and processes of the RMAs and sharing best practices with the MA/MKTG
- In collaboration with RMAs establishes customer contact with opinion leaders related to key therapeutic area initiatives
- Build, enhance and maintain the engagement with scientific leaders, principally key external experts
Qualifications for senior medical advisor
- Medical Degree (MD) with specialist qualification and experience in the relevant TA
- Minimally 8 years of clinical development and medical affairs experience in a TA relevant to the position, 5 years of which should be from a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company
- Broad, direct and matrix leadership experience
- Interact with and develop enduring relationships with opinion leaders, national advisors on clinical practice, contributors to national guidelines and national and/or regional formularies
- Medical input into assigned brand cross functional team and where necessary into local Customer based marketing initiatives
- Communicate customer feedback on product development and life-cycle strategies