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The Medical Affairs Manager Immunology (Dermatology & Rheumatology) contributes to the development and implementation of company objectives and strategies in designated products with alignment of CVT. Through activities in line with the CVT strategy the Medical Affairs Manager is jointly responsible for the realization of short-term and long-term company goals defined in Brand Plan Process. This role is crucial in providing medical and scientific leadership internally and externally, responsible for discussing our products, treatment trends and studies in the therapeutic areas in which we are involved on the level to be considered as trusted scientific counterparts.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Key responsibilities

• Provide medical strategy & tactics in the respective product/products.
• Be directly involved in development of strategy and tactics for specific product/products by defining them in Medical Plan as a part of Brand Plan.
• Manage the implementation of medical affairs activities, including proactive identification of critical paths and tracking of budget for product dedicated medical projects.
• Foster an externally focused working environment. Develops & implements appropriate educational activities towards Health Care Professionals in collaboration with other internal and external partners where necessary.
• Maintain collaborative working relationship between internal stakeholders to deliver high quality expertise timely. Keep collaboration and alignment of action with other CVT members.
• Functioning as business partner for many different teams such as: Commercial, Market Access, Regulatory, Clinical Trials, Patients’ Engagement and Advocacy, Pharmacovigilance, etc., in the field of scientific information and medical education.
• Actively engage in cross functional collaboration beyond the country.
• Ensure that all medical activities are conducted according to all applicable guidelines, regulations, company procedures and high ethical/quality standards

External collaboration

• Constantly focusing on building scientific alignment with top Leading Specialists (LS) to treat patients who need therapies.
• Cooperation/building partnership with Scientific Societies, Patient’s Organizations, and external health-care related audiences.
• Provision and implementation of appropriate educational activities towards Health Care Professionals in collaboration with other internal and external partners where necessary.
• Top LS interactions during F2F meetings, Co-visits, congresses/scientific meetings, and Medical Education events.

Training & individual development

• Coaching to raise individual`s self-awareness and foster consecutive skills to find problem solutions or methods/techniques to improve for oneself.

Requirements:

Educational Background and Pharmaceutical Industry expertise/experience:

• Medical Doctor, Pharmaceutical or Nature Science university degree
• Experience in Pharmaceutical Industry at the similar position ≥ 3 years
• Experience in Immunology therapeutic area will be a highly valuable additional asset for the candidate

Other Skills:

• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Native local speaker and fluent English knowledge of both spoken and written
• Project management skills
• Excellent presentation and influencing skills
• Seeks innovation
• Proactive personality which can engage LSs in a peer-to-peer format
• Skill & passion to analyze/interpret scientific data & publications
• Excellent communication skills (oral, business writing, presenting, and listening)
• High level of ethical standards in business
• Strong customer focus and service orientation
• Pro-active and goal-oriented thinking
• Location and mobility: 80% local office based/ 20% travels