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Head Of Medical Affairs Gauteng

Head Of Medical Affairs Gauteng

MNA RecruitmentGauteng, South Africa
30+ days ago
Job description

A leading pharmaceutical company has a vacancy for a Head of Medical Affairs.

Reference : DBN -SS-2

Duties & Responsibilities

Job Purpose :

This role functions internally as the lead in developing and executing the most efficient and integrated medical / scientific strategy, including scientific evidence generation and scientific information exchange with all key stakeholders. Externally, the role assists health care professionals to optimize patient care and treatment outcomes through evidence-based decisions and support.

Key Responsibilities :

Medico-marketing Support

  • Developing and executing a highly efficient and integrated medico-marketing strategy, including scientific evidence generation and scientific information exchange with all key stakeholders.
  • Provide strategic input for the elaboration of brand plans by being the center of scientific expertise.
  • Providing relevant data evidence to ensure that the overall strategy is clearly defined and consistent with medical affairs and commercial strategic objectives.
  • Reviewing and approving medical and scientific content of Regulatory, Safety, Communications, Medical Affairs, and Commercial.
  • Pro-actively providing guidance to marketing and sales teams.
  • Webinars / CMEs / Advisory Board meetings / Preceptorship programs - preparing scientific agenda, providing literature & presentation support as required, co-ordination with partners / stakeholders.
  • Strategic support for new launch & existing products – medical / scientific strategy for new launches and strategic LCM inputs for existing products.
  • Providing leadership and strategic direction for interactions and communications with external customers, key organizations, and institutions.
  • Collaborating with the commercial teams to address questions and opportunities.
  • Informing stakeholders of unmet needs and facilitating appropriate approaches to address them.
  • Interacting with experts at medical meetings, advisory boards, and outreach meetings to represent the company and strengthen its reputation in the therapeutic areas.
  • Maintaining external orientation by participating actively in external events and activities in our chosen spaces.
  • Develop and implement a strong advocacy plan with experts in the field, academics and professionals and / or patient associations.
  • Develop a strong advocacy program and organise advisory boards or roundtables to build and reinforce product awareness and gain strategic insights for medical affairs and commercial strategy.
  • Ensure the scientific integrity of information, and relationships with healthcare providers and patient advocacy groups.

Compliance in medico-marketing activity

  • Ensuring compliance in medical affairs and medico-marketing activities.
  • Ensuring compliance in selection of speakers, deciding FMV and evaluating participation criteria.

    • Evidence generation activities

  • Evidence generation activity and publications – identify needs for post-marketing programmes and oversee their end-to-end management and execution.

    • Evaluation of New Products

  • Evaluation of new products - identifying products to enable the building of a robust portfolio.
  • Providing medical rationale & analysis for selected product Portfolios & CoE teams.
  • Conduct of Advisory board meetings for opinion of KOLs on new products.

    • Training and Development

  • Collaborate with Training Manager to enhance training program on disease and competitor products and ensure continuous update.
  • Support Training Manager in developing content and conducting training sessions for new launches as well as scientific updates on existing products.

    • Scientific Updates

  • Lead and contribute to a system of Competitive intelligence and monitoring of publications.
  • Compilation and circulation of regular scientific updates on major brands / therapy areas.

    • Activities for Digital Platforms & Other

  • Ensure a patient-centric approach to development of medical strategy both for product and device, as well as possible services which can enhance the value proposition of the product.
  • Digital Platforms and related activities - support for digital activities like Pill plus, Digital content quality review, revision in content topics, Support for website launch, Webinars, etc.
  • Support market research, opportunity validation, and whitespace analysis to identify new opportunities for new and existing features and functionalities.
  • Partner with the central product teams to build product roadmaps as per needs of the user(s) and market.
  • Planning of the product release or introduction in the country.
  • Engage with potential customers and internal stakeholders to understand problems and potential business opportunities in their respective markets and therapy areas.
  • Identify and lead discussions with potential partners & service providers for enabling new services and revenue streams around the product.
  • Support, planning and monitoring of Product MVPs, Pilot and Launch activities in the market along with central product team.
  • Lead / oversee data generation activities.
  • Conceptualisation, development, roll-out and monitoring of differentiated Patient Support Programmes for key products.

    • Education, Experience & Personal Attributes

  • Degree in Medicine with at least 5 years of industry experience in Medical Affairs.
  • In-depth understanding of and proven success in how to conceptualize, design, and execute patient programmes.
  • Broad and formal leadership experience, including excellent “leadership presence” to represent Medical Affairs within the company, to other functions, and to leaders at every level.
  • Excellent skills working with experts from other functions and influencing decision making.
  • High energy and an absolute commitment to a culture that operates with high ethical standards and strives to exceed all goals and objectives.
  • Demonstrated ability to inspire confidence while demonstrating sound scientific judgment.
  • Comfort operating in a consensus-building role but also able to make specific recommendations and decisions and drive for implementation.
  • Ability to inspire confidence, both internally and externally, through leading by example and demonstrating collaborative behavior.
  • Demonstrated ability to organize and lead expert Scientific Advisory Panels.
  • Ability to understand and effectively communicate scientific and medical data results and information to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to build solid working relationships with the commercial organisation, as well as negotiate and influence.

    • Candidates that meet the criteria may submit their applications via this portal or via vacancy link on

    Should you receive no feedback within 7 days, please accept your application as unsuccessful.

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