Merck & Co.

Job Description

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Medical Advisor/Senior Medical Manager. The Medical Advisor/Senior Medical Manager holds primary responsibility within the country for the development and execution of the Medical Affairs strategic plans.

Bring energy, knowledge, innovation to carry out the following:

• Provide fair, balanced, non-promotional and unbiased medical and scientific support in response to specific requests from healthcare professionals (HCPs) for further information on our product portfolio, clinical development program, or disease area(s) of interest.
• Identify, develop and maintain professional and credible relationships with the health care community, especially Scientific Leaders (SL) and academic centres, in the relevant disease area(s) and in collaboration with relevant internal functions deliver improved patient outcomes in a given disease area.
• Lead the development of the Medical Affairs Plans (MAPs) and implements tactics identified in the MAP that align with the Company’s therapeutic areas of interest and their TA responsibilities.
• Working cross-functionally, undertake the delivery of specific projects in the MAP e.g. symposia, advice seeking activities, medical education initiatives.
• Collaborate with and provide support to cross-functional team members both office and field based.
• Develop partnerships with market access, regulatory and clinical development colleagues to appropriately and rapidly gain access for patients to our medicines and vaccines e.g. Health Technology Appraisals, patient access schemes, compassionate use programmes support clinical trial activities where appropriate in collaboration with GCTO.
• Interact (e.g. group presentation or 1:1 meeting) as necessary and appropriate with healthcare organisations, health professionals, clinical investigators, and other health care providers and organisations in order to provide complete, accurate, balanced, scientifically rigorous and non-promotional medical and clinical information.
• Develop and maintains in-depth knowledge of relevant products and relevant disease area(s) in order to act as an expert medical resource.
• Represent the Medical Department at local or regional non-promotional medical events (e.g. Medical Congresses and Symposia), utilising the events to attain ongoing clinical knowledge and appropriately gather competitor intelligence.
• In partnership with colleagues, facilitate the delivery of data generation activities (phase I -IV), including the identification of suitable research projects, research centres, investigators and innovative methods to generate data.
• Support commercial colleagues to provide balanced and scientific information and training, on therapeutic areas related to assigned disease entities, and input into pre-launch activities as appropriate.
• Partner with our research laboratories/GCTO personnel to identify potential investigators for clinical development programmes.
• Maintain compliance with all statutory requirements, internal processes and procedures for Pharmacovigilance.
• Is expected to spend up to 25% of their time in external engagements.

What skills you will need:

In order to excel in this role, you will more than likely have:

• Medical degree or pharmacy degree. A higher science degree (i.e. MSc, PhD) is allowable , preferably with industry experience and clear demonstration of achievements.
• High level of knowledge of IPHA Code of Practice, preferably with final signatory status.
• Proven relationship building skills with scientific leaders (either in the pharmaceutical industry or healthcare/academic setting).
• Understanding of the wider Irish healthcare and reimbursement environment and key opportunities for pharma and the HSE to partner effectively within the scope of the IPHA Code of Practice.
• IT skills, including but not limited to use of MS Office software.
• Therapy area knowledge and therapy area industry experience is preferable (e.g. Vaccines, Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary Hypertension, Cardiovascular)

As a company, we are committed to 'Inventing for Life' in all that we do. We keep the patient at the very heart of all that we do and strive to find solutions and treatments for some of the world's most challenging healthcare needs.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. Please don't hesitate to contact the Talent Acquisition Advisor assigned to this role should you need any support during our recruitment process.

We are committed to flexible working where possible, and this is why our Company has introduced a new hybrid working model for office-based colleagues around the world.

Please feel free to speak to us about what flexibility means to you during your application or click on the link to find out more about our hybrid working model

So, if you are ready to:

Invent solutions to meet unmet healthcare needs, please apply today.

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