The position of Global Medical Advocacy reports directly to the Associate Vice President, Global Medical Affairs Education and Advocacy and will help develop, execute, and deliver multiple deliverables to support Thought Leader Advocacy, Launch Excellence, and global consistency in advanced scientific knowledge. This position is chartered to strengthen new and existing customer relationships and build loyalty to the portfolio. In addition, collaborating with medical and marketing will be critical to harness, analyze, and report scientific insights and inform timely next best actions with broad organizational impacts.

Responsibilities

• Subject Matter Expertise:

  • Demonstrate deep understanding of the portfolio, competitive landscape, and unmet needs/opportunities
  • Identify trends and insights with communication to the appropriate internal stakeholders
  • Prepare launch readiness activities, plans and scientific materials

• Develop Educational Materials:

  • Manage educational activities, attending Congress activities, external engagement and planning execution of medical affairs related projects.
  • Support the development of scientific material
  • Develop and contribute to advisory board planning
  • Coordinate global medical launch readiness activities
  • Develop aligned medical assets, including global training decks, that advance Merz Ax science and training, creating one Medical Affairs perspective on complex medical aesthetics topics

• Build External and Internal Relationships:

  • Collaborate cross functionally/regionally with global colleagues to translate scientific, clinical and RWE data into impactful deliverables for HCPs and consumers.
  • Develop internal and external relationships at all levels
  • Identify and communicate clinical insights from Key Opinion Leaders to appropriate cross-functional teams
  • Build manage and grow key global customer relationships and identify opportunities for innovation and portfolio enhancement. Identify next gen Ax leaders with support of Region Medical.
  • Close collaboration with the regional Medical Affairs representatives to develop integrated global Medical Affairs materials and launch readiness activities, maintaining open, two-way communication to ensure regional medical affairs has input and is up to date on all plans, progress, and decisions.
  • Drive cross-functional awareness of launch strategy workstream and stakeholder interdependencies.

• Contribute to Strategic Initiatives:

  • Drive cross-functional awareness of launch strategy workstream and stakeholder interdependencies.
  • Contribute to cross-functional and cross-regional advanced medical training strategy for Merz portfolio
  • Pre-launch medical activities including product global advisory boards, medical symposia and congress activities, coordination of regional activity and alignment in these areas.

Technical & Functional Skills:

• Excellent communicator
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally
• Ability to effectively collaborate, develop and execute key deliverables

Minimum Qualifications:

• Advanced scientific degree (PhD, PharmD, MD)
• 4-5 years of experience required
• Extensive experience with PowerPoint, Excel

Preferred Qualifications:

• Aesthetics experience

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)