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Job Function:
Medical Affairs Group
Job Sub Function:
Medical Affairs
Job Category:
Scientific/Technology
All Job Posting Locations:
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Job Description:
Medical education activities
- Identify important medical activities in order to fulfil medical education and knowledge gaps as defined in medical affairs plan
- Work collaboratively and effectively with medical education team for development and implementation of all medical education activities including company-organized medical education, CME, educational grants or sponsor HCP to medical education events
- Take ownership in designing and leading Medical Advisory Boards.
- Take ownership and proactive approach in working with faculty for ensure high quality of scientific content
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES may include but not limited to: Define major accountabilities and/or activities. List most complex or difficult parts of job first and indicate percentage of time required to perform each task.
Key roles may be different country by country. So, % of time can be put at each OpCo level considering local situation.
TA Leadership – New Product Launches
- Be trusted scientific experts in the related TA -New Product Launches
- Be aware of latest scientific and clinical advances in relevant therapy areas.
- Know well and skillful in conducting literature search and good ability in reading and analyzing clinical papers to promote evidence/scientific-based brand concepts.
- Provide regular clinical & scientific knowledge sharing across the TAs and Brands
- Deliver medical insight into product Life Cycle management planning. Provide Medical expertise to marketing colleagues in product development team from the early development phase throughout the life of the product by identifying the optimum positioning of the product in the life of the therapeutic area.
- Provide expert medical leadership into issues management (e.g. product withdrawals, safety alerts etc.)
- Provide expert medical input into key market activities and regulatory body interactions
- Be responsible for monitoring medical spending and project costs.
Medical Strategy - Responsible for developing and implementing medical affairs strategy plan within therapy area through effective medical gaps analysis in clinical data, clinical care, knowledge and medical education gaps together with holistic understanding of customers insights (external and internal stakeholders)
- Close collaboration with key stakeholders from marketing, regulatory, access, medical education and clinical operations during local Business Planning and Strategic Planning, with overall ownership for the Medical Affairs component of a brand or business unit plan and ensuring medical leadership during Brand & Medical Cross Functional Team meetings to ensure alignment to Medical teams’ objectives.
- Partner with medical education team and business partner for excellent execution of medical affairs activities as defined in medical affairs strategic plan.
Medical review - Responsible for Medical Affairs proactive input into the concept development of Brand promotional materials, artwork and final medical sign off /approval for each brand associated with the therapeutic area, ensuring alignment with Company standards and relevant POL/SOP on medical review
- Review and approval of promotional material, labelling information, package insert, training material for sales and marketing colleagues or other relevant documents, including reviewing translated medical document when needed.
Medical education activities - Identify important medical activities in order to fulfil medical education and knowledge gaps as defined in medical affairs plan
- Work collaboratively and effectively with medical education team for development and implementation of all medical education activities including company-organized medical education, CME, educational grants or sponsor HCP to medical education events
- Take ownership in designing and leading Medical Advisory Boards.
- Take ownership and proactive approach in working with faculty for ensure high quality of scientific content
Customer/External Interaction & KOL engagement
- Develop and maintain scientific relationships with key thought leaders to build customer insight and develop strategic partnerships
- Meet with customers and researchers on a regular basis through meetings, conferences etc., to:
- Gather information and insights on therapy area (inc. Competitor landscape) and their medical and scientific needs
- Exchange disease area knowledge and opinions to understand the emerging opinions
- Increase the customers understanding of Johnson & Johnson products and processes (eg. clinical data, IIS, clinical trials, compliance processes), according to their expressed interests and needs and to seek their advice on the development of our products.
- Manage and maintain positive relationship with Key Opinion Leaders.
- Deliver scientific and medical content for medical advisory boards and medical education activities
- To be the point of contact for investigators proposing investigator initiated studies (IIS) and manage MAF studies (in collaboration with GCO)
- As requested business partners (e.g. Public/Communication Affairs, MKT), provide support in interacting with patient advocacy groups and their initiatives e.g. responding to clinical interest, gathering insights
- Establish and maintain contacts with external experts, participate in advisory committees and other professional relations activities and thought leaders within the territory and other countries where needed.
Develop and maintain productive relationships with relevant professional societies
Data generation
