Medical Senior Director - Spain

Date: Mar 26, 2024

Location: 

Madrid, Spain, 28108

Company: Teva Pharmaceuticals

Job Id: 55001

Who we are

At Teva we are all in for better health for our patients, our society, and our planet and for our people. TEVA is one of the pharmaceutical companies that treats the most patients in the world, 200 million every day, and its differential element is its participation in the entire medication cycle. We achieve all this by producing and developing affordable medicines through high-quality processes, as well as specialized and innovative medicines, and active pharmaceutical ingredients. An important part of its global production is carried out in Europe, placing the patient at the center of everything TEVA does and with a firm, transparent and ethical commitment to society and the environment.

We are currently looking for a Medical Senior Director for Spain to provide overall medical leadership through alignment with the Spanish General Manager and Regional Medical VP, being a strategic partner to Commercial team, Market Access team and other key local and regional functions, and to ensure successful delivery of Teva’s new innovative product launches, Pivot to Growth strategy, external engagement, and execution of R&D programs.

How you’ll spend your day

• Spain Medical Affairs Strategic Leadership: Co-lead Spain innovative medicines strategy for pipeline, pre-launch, launch and inline products. Develop Medical strategies and external engagement plans to ensure successful commercialization of Teva’s innovative medicines and patient access. 
• Spain Medical Affairs Tactical Execution - Oversee Medical tactical execution, including Spain pre-launch, launch and inline products execution and pipeline clinical trial recruitment. Manage day-to-day team operations. Ensure excellence in execution, including accountabilities for timeliness and effective budget management.
• Spain Medical Affairs Capability Building: Develops and executes strong annual plans to maximize the medical affairs capabilities of local Spanish medical team aligned with regional medical VP and GM.
• Reimbursement, Patient Access and National Guidelines: Develops and executes early strategical and tactical local medical plans to succeed in these areas, ensures medical team has a deep understanding of Spanish payer landscape and develops early external engagement plans accordingly. Provides timely input to pipeline product development at phase II level, to ensure Spanish reimbursement requirements are reflected in clinical study protocols and Spanish patients have access to new innovative pipeline products.
• MSL Team: Builds a world class, highly capable and high performing MSL team. Develops stretch qualitative and quantitative KPIs and capability building projects for MSLs on a yearly basis.
• Local Strategic Data Generation: Drives strategic data gaps analysis for future and inline products based on the needs of Spanish clinical practice, guidelines and patient access requirements. Develops protocols (interventional or RWE) and executes studies, develops publications and disseminates data, so that the needs of the patients, payers and physicians are met in a timely manner. 
• Provides strong compliance oversight to Investigator Sponsored Studies, Collaborative research, company sponsored studies and PSPs. Ensures quarterly compliance KPIs are achieved for these programs. 
• Acceleration of patient recruitment for pipeline products and Teva studies: Engages and builds credible positive relationships with investigators to accelerate patient recruitment of Teva studies (Phase I-II-III-IV). Delivers global and regional KPIs for investigator engagement.
• Strong partnership with regional medical team: Attends and contributes to European Medical leadership team, establishes strong collaboration and alignment with Regional Medical Team (TA Leads, Strategy Operations) based in Amsterdam Netherlands. 
• Has highest level of personal ethical integrity and honesty in leadership behaviors, assures compliance with code of conduct, law, Teva regulations and SOPs in business operations.
• Key member of EU MLT and Local Spanish Leadership team. 
• Core partner with a broad range of commercial players in the Country. 
• Review, explore and develop creative, impactful, and efficient ways to continuously improve the medical matrix model and operation in the Country with regional/global partners. (In collaboration with TPE medical TA heads and VP EU). 
• Responsible for Medical Affairs budget

Your experience and qualifications

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE: 

• Track record of diverse successful and relevant experience in the pharmaceutical industry for a minimum of 15+ years of working experience with 10+ years in pharmaceutical industry. In depth understanding of the medical affairs function gained through varying roles in Spain and international level. 
• Previous people management, team leadership experience. 
• Life sciences university studies is a must (MD, Pharmacist, Biologist…). M.D. preferrable
• Past or current experience in clinical practice is welcome.
• Knowledge of Spanish environment including KOL and external stakeholders’ network. 
• Tangible experience of dealing with regulatory authorities locally.
• Solid understanding of clinical trial execution and experience in driving Spanish site identification and patient recruitment acceleration, is strongly preferred. Identifies and solves barriers to successful clinical trial recruitment in Spain sites for Phase II-III-IV studies.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Fluent English & Spanish (Must)
• Strong influencing skills
• Team player
• Excellent presentation skills
• Strong business acumen and value focused.
• Strategic thinking coupled with emotional intelligence.
• Highest level of personal ethical integrity and honesty.

CRITICAL LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES:

• Strong collaboration skills
• Has leadership humility, a respectful listener, empathetic and humble leader, works passionately for the purpose and creates a great sense of purpose and collaboration within the team.
• Passionate and works with “I can do it attitude”, and strongly inspires the team for a ‘we can do it attitude.”
• Strong problem-solving skills to execute the strategy and business objectives.
• Leading change
• Driving Results
• Strong people management skills, able to build trust, motivate and inspire the medical affairs team.

Job conditions

• Role based in Madrid.
• Willing to travel (local and international travel) 
• Able to work in a fast-paced changing environment.
• Comfortable in working in a Matrix Organization

Reports To

GM, Spain (Solid Line)

VP Head of Medical Affairs EU (Dotted Line)

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