Medical Advisor

Mission :

• Supporting development and implementation of Country / Cluster Brand Plans in focus disease areas.
• Systematically leading identification of the scientific exchange needs of Key Opinion Leaders, investigators and other stakeholders in patient care, establishing strong professional relationships and providing credible scientific expertise.
• Leading the design and implementation of best-in-class scientific programs with external KOLs, investigators and Global Medical Affairs and Global Clinical partners.
• Responding effectively to requests for scientific exchange.
• Supporting local team disease area and product knowledge through scientific training.
• Maintaining personal and medical team expertise in relevant disease areas and Medical best practices.
• Development of Patients support programs and initiatives in order to cover patients’ needs in Takeda’ therapeutic areas of interest.
• Cooperation with Internal (Medical, Access, In-field teams, Compliance) and External (KOLs, HCPs, Caregivers, Patients groups representatives) in order to identify main patients’ unmet need and obstacles for treatment and optimal outcomes, development of respective projects/approaches for identification.
• Identification (in cooperation with Medical, Compliance) of main gaps in Dx for Takeda therapeutic areas of interest.

Accountabilities : 85% Medical role:

• Supporting development and implementation of Country Medical Brand Plans in focus disease areas.
• Collaborate with Maghreb Medical Head and Global Medical Team to provide country input into Global Medical Brand Plans and translate Global Medical Strategy to in-year Country activity plans.
• Define specific medical programs and activities (e.g. medical meetings, disease state education, advisory boards) and associated resource requirements and budgets.
• Define key performance indicators and metrics to track progress against the activity plan.
• Systematically lead identification of the scientific exchange needs of KOLs, investigators and other stakeholders in patient care, establish strong professional relationships, and provide credible scientific expertise.
• Develop and maintain peer-to-peer scientific relationships with key thought leaders in healthcare, academia and government organizations per KOL plans and as requested by KOLs, including the management of strategic scientific partnerships and scientific exchange.
• Facilitate 1:1 and group scientific interactions with healthcare professionals.
• Serve as Takeda presence at external meetings including scientific symposia and cooperative group meetings..
• Participate in country-level KOL planning.
• Maintain KOL plans and timely, accurately, and compliantly update medical customer relationship management system.
• Leading the design and implementation of best-in-class scientific programs with external KOLs, investigators and Global Medical Affairs and Global Clinical partners.
• Collaborate appropriately with KOLs and Investigators to identify areas of shared scientific interest and advance partnerships per the guidance of the Country Medical Head.
• Support Country Medical Head in defining and leading local medical initiatives and KOL plans.
• Provide medical support to Takeda’s clinical research programs and registries.
• Serve as a bridge between HCPs and Takeda medical, clinical and external partners.
• Maintain awareness of and access to internal and external information sources available to support best-in-class scientific exchange, and coordinate high-quality interactions between these resources and external customers.
• Respond effectively to requests for scientific exchange.
• Coordinate response within defined timeline and quality standards to unsolicited inquiries from HCPs and other stakeholders received by Global Medical Affairs and referred to GMA by other Takeda functions.
• Develop appropriate responses to unique inquiries as required, such as the presentation of scientific evidence and medical education.
• Support local team disease area and product knowledge through scientific training.
• Contribute to medical training of field-based commercial personnel as assigned.
• Track and record training activities per established SOPs.
• Maintaining personal and medical team expertise in relevant disease areas and Medical Affairs and Medical Research best practices.
• Maintain knowledge base and scientific expertise on all assigned Takeda disease areas and products.
• In coordination with Country Medical Head and Global Medical Training, train medical science liaison team on fundament disease area knowledge and emerging evidence.
• Develop and update knowledge of applicable pharmaceutical guidelines and regulations, including ICH, GCP, R&D Code of Ethical Practices and company policies.
• Develop/increase personal and team knowledge of medical literature and critical appraisal of scientific publications.
• Attend and report on relevant regional, national and international scientific and patient advocacy meetings as assigned.

15% PSP role

• Identify the unmet need in the patient journey.
• Design and recommend solutions for enhanced patient outcomes related to their journey.
• Collaborate and work with area and regional teams to secure approval of models.
• Introduce the PSP offerings to relevant HCPs and other stakeholders as necessary for successful program execution.
• Co-ordinate and align relevant patient organizations stakeholders on the PSP objectives.
• Leads the PSPs through the 3rd party service provider.
• Responsible for successful execution with documentation reviews, qualitative assessments in the field and data analytics..
• To draft and prepare for approval all initiatives related to patients support programs across Cluster.
• To develop, implement, maintain and update of all patients support programs across Cluster.
• To ensure proper communications with all relevant internal and external stakeholders on patients support projects’ aims, mechanisms and outcomes, prepare and respective documentation.
• To execute day-to-day monitoring of all aspects of patients programs, prepare regular reports.

Profil :
EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

• A medical or pharmacy degree is required.
• >5 years of experience in biopharmaceutical medicine in Medical Affairs or Clinical Research is required.
• Experience designing and leading clinical or research studies is preferred.
• Experience in oncology is a plus.
• High scientific capabilities.
• Focus on personal accountability and ownership constantly challenging oneself to take responsibility for continuous performance improvement and operational excellence ; highly reliable and predictable for colleagues and customers.
• Able to expertly exchange scientific ideas and information openly and effectively with key opinion leaders and with colleagues.
• Able to skillfully manage challenging conversations and handle objections.
• Focused on customer and patient needs.
• Able to effectively lead and participate in multidisciplinary and virtual teams.
• Effective listening skills.
• Ability to partner and collaborate appropriately with Commercial functions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Basic knowledge of pharmaceutical industry, drug discovery, research & development, commercialization, promotion, and applicable policies, procedures, regulations, and guidelines.
• Analytical skills and reasoning, and sound medical judgment/decision making.
• Interpersonal skills, internal & external networking and the ability to impact and influence.
• Leadership capabilities; ability to motivate, inspire Highly organized with attention to detail.
• Strong team player and know how to collaborate and engage many stakeholders across a large organization.
• Good command of English and French (spoken and written).

LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS:

• Degree in scientific field (Medical, pharmacy,).

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:

• Potential travel to International HQ, local and international congresses and in-country meetings.
• Frequent travel to HCP locations approximately 60% of time in field, nights and weekends possible.