Medical Advisor - Cardiometabolic

• Product(s) lifecycle management in collaboration with the Brand Manager and cross-functional teams.
• Leading and developing the Local Medical strategy and medical activities for the product(s) in accordance with internal and external regulations in close collaboration with the Head of Medical Affairs.
• Work closely with cross- functional teams to support the development and execution of medical strategies and plans.
• Stay up to date with current medical and scientific developments in assigned therapeutic area (TA) and provide training to internal and external customers.
• In-depth therapy area expertise and product knowledge including competitor data.
• Lead and drive rapid integrated evidence planning and execution through deep understanding of internal and external stakeholder evidence needs and robust data gaps analysis.
• Visits selected KOL’s and study groups for strategic discussions on evidence generation.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with external experts.
• Management of internal and external relationships within area of responsibility.
• Ensuring consistency and accuracy of medical content and scientific messages across various tools and materials.
• Provides medical insights and expertise to support the marketing and commercialization of TA products from a scientific perspective.
• Oversees in-sourced/outsourced medical programs and logistics.
• Conducts Local Advisory Board Meetings, Expert Panels and scientific engagement meetings SEM/CMEs.
• Develop and deliver scientific presentations and materials for internal and external conferences and meetings.
• Provides Medical expertise for pipeline products.
• Provides Medical expertise for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) submissions.
• Utilise strong business acumen, acting as a key strategic business partner to the organisation.
• Initiate and drive projects to raise standards of care and change clinical practice.
• Ability to work independently with a solutions-oriented and balanced approach to ambiguity
• Drive strong collaborative relationships with commercial and cross-functional teams, including marketing, value & access, health economics, regulatory and clinical
• Drive collaborative relationships with Alliance partner to ensure the country involvement and strategic input into global and regional plans.
• Ability to rapidly assimilate new data and integrate into new therapy area.
• Create industry leading digital educational and scientific content that is timely, relevant, interactive and innovative.
• Champion the patient voice when developing and implementing medical strategies.
• Demonstrate strong leadership influencing across networks and by coaching and mentoring members of the team.
• Act as a medical resource for internal teams, including Marketing, Regulatory Affairs and Market Access.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations, guidelines and company policies in all medical communications and activities.

• Signs off medical plans for area of responsibility.
• Approves scientific content of Local symposia/workshops/publications/ promotional materials/medical section of reimbursement files.
• Approval of slide decks and resources and scientific speaker presentations.

• Brand/disease specific parts of medical plan.
• Local support for medical questions, feasibility and trial strategy.
• Local Product Lifecycle Plan.
• Protocols and other study documents for local studies.
• Medical expertise for the review of promotional and scientific documents (e.g. symposia, publications etc.).
• Local R&D brand/disease related results according to goals and metrics.
• Provide relevant training to internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop a good understanding of HCP communication preferences to adapt communication style and optimise use of relevant channels to suit.
• Implement true scientific engagement journeys by bridging channel disconnect to drive ongoing engagement and grow collaborative opportunities and meaningful scientific exchange.

• Matric
• Medical qualification (MBChB), or equivalent life science qualification of at least Masters’ level.

• Minimum of 2 years in pharmaceutical industry, or proven industry collaboration in academia.
• Experience in affiliate Medical Department or Clinical Development.
• Experience with clinical study management and conduct.
• Knowledge of commercialization and business practices.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical product development, product lifecycle and commercialization process with advanced understanding of other functions; including, but not limited to, Clinical Operations, Commercial, Regulatory, and Medical Affairs.
• Experience in the CardioMetabolic therapeutic area will be advantageous.
• Experience with KOL’s in the relevant therapeutic area.

• Medical strategy and scientific expertise in the therapeutic area.?
• Good understanding of the impact and evolution of healthcare systems.
• Fluency in English, both oral and written communications?
• Strong communication skills including driving challenging discussions with the ability to effectively communicate complex scientific concepts to diverse audiences.
• Excellent presentation skills?
• Continuously expanding medical and scientific knowledge as well as market knowledge?
• Strong clinical research knowledge (study design, study evaluation, medical writing skills, expert panel conduct, symposium and workshop management, KOL management)?
• Strong customer orientation; science-based ?
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams.
• Role model for others in line with Aspen Values?
• Demonstrates leadership skills?
• Ability to act independently with a solutions-oriented and balanced approach to the grey areas
• Be confident in the use of Omnichannel tools and ability to adapt to new channels / technologies
• Effectively and compliantly share unmet needs of HCPs and their centres with cross-functional teams to inform patient-centric strategy.
• Strong project management skills.
• Willingness to continuously expand medical, scientific, market, and industry knowledge.

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