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Head of Medical Affairs

Novartis

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Benefits
Experience

Job ID

392265BR

About the role

The Country Medical Affairs Head is the lead representative of medical in the Country, responsible for adopting and executing the near- and long-term medical strategy coming from Global/Region, forging bold strategic partnership with the healthcare communities and governmental entities.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage and develop the overall performance of the medical unit in country
  • Drive best-in-class launch preparedness and launch execution (incl. ensuring that precision medicine availability at launch and overcoming local data gaps also for HTA Submission – when applicable
  • Raises country medical and clinical interests into global and regional strategy and planning prelaunch starting at DDP, through providing timely and strategic feedback. This shapes the development program earlier and ensures IDPs include integrated, diverse data available at launch to support local reimbursement and clinical implementation.
  • In line with the evolving healthcare ecosystem, proactively and strategically builds and strengthens partnerships beyond the traditional Healthcare professionals and organizations. Identifies opportunities for joint value creation deploying new engagement models of broader reach.
  • Engages with key patient associations, academic societies, patients, payers and reimbursement bodies as well as the relevant healthcare systems, to harness opportunities and share ownership in transforming the clinical practice with optimal access and better outcomes for real world patients.
  • Builds and facilitates cross-functional equal partner collaboration with internal stakeholders, co-creating and leading where necessary.
  • Owns and optimizes medical resources and allocation: Advocates early resourcing (where and when appropriate), while ensuring cost adherence in spend of Medical Affairs trials, activities, and resourcing. Ability to articulate and defend priorities and needs of medical with strong influencing skills. Recruits, hires and develops talent while improving potential for leadership.

Position Title

Head of Medical Affairs

Role Requirements

  • Medical Doctor (MD) or Medical Degree
  • 10+ years of proven experience working with high-performing local medical and access teams in healthcare/life sciences industry.
  • Proven experience acquired at multinational pharmaceutical companies, HTA, physician associations or health care consultancy companies.
  • Proven track record to network with all levels of stakeholders and work in matrix environment distilling and prioritizing market needs and deliverables.
  • Strong leadership and influencing skills in a matrix; articulate vision for Medical Affairs in the Country; build externally-focused culture.
  • Deep understanding of drug development and approval processes, including experience designing and/or implementing clinical studies and understanding regulatory standards and processes, as well as ethical and legal guidelines. International/global experience desirable.
  • Scientific/medical research experience with demonstrated record of scientific/medical publication desirable.
  • Fluency in English and Arabic Languages

Why Novartis?

Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits rewards

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Novartis is a proud member of the ILO Global Business and Disability Network and the Valuable 500, promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in workplaces around the world. We also collaborate with international partners, such as Disability:IN, Purple Space, and Business Disability Forum to identify and develop best practice solutions to enable people with disabilities to participate as equal members of our organization.

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Job Type

Full Time

Country

Egypt

Work Location

Cairo

Functional Area

Research & Development

Division

International

Business Unit

APMA IMI

Employment Type

Regular

Company/Legal Entity

NOV PHARMA EGY

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse team’s representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Shift Work

No

Early Talent

No

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