Location
Casablanca, CASABLANCA, Morocco, Morocco
Posted on
Jul 23, 2016
Profile
Full Time
Employment Type
Regular
Job Description
Job Purpose
Build scientific partnerships with healthcare professionals (HCPs) and decision makers. Strategically prepare and support the development, launch and post-launch phases of products life cycle through education of Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) / Key Stakeholders, handling unsolicited requests, clinical trial support, and by the scientific exchange seeking external insights to shape Novartis commercial and development programs.
Major Activities
KOL Management & Medico-scientific Support
1. Contribute to mapping and profiling of KOLs and decision makers.
2. Develop professional scientific relationships, build advocacy and gain contributions of KOLs and decision makers.
3. Collect, analyze and report insights that may impact Novartis development plans / trial designs.
4. Provide and discuss scientific information and data to HCPs to ensure quality and accuracy of medical and scientific information on new treatment options including Novartis products and selected areas of therapeutic interest.
5. Liaise and provide up-to-date medical support to relevant external groups to facilitate listing of products in medical guidelines, formularies to impact pricing and health-economic discussions.
6. Provide speaker training to health care professionals to support the best use of new therapies developed and commercialized by Novartis.
Clinical Trials Support
7. Contribute to the identification of appropriate clinical investigators and facilitates placement into Novartis sponsored clinical trials.
8. Support the investigational sites, as needed , as part of a cross-functional team with Clinical Trials manager and the Medical Advisor and others as appropriate.
9. Identify clinical investigators with research proposals that are consistent with our product development strategies and facilitate the Investigator-Initiated Trials (IIT) process including study completion, presentation, and publication, as appropriate.
10. Support the investigators to comply with the ITT process in accordance with the guidelines and SOPs, providing knowledge and guidance for legal and financial local regulations, as appropriate.
Information Management / Insights
11. Collaborate with Novartis colleagues to actively support medical and scientific meetings by collecting and interpreting insights /presentations/ results.
12. Evaluate the impact of competitive information to share internally and externally as post-meeting deliverables.
Internal Novartis Support
13. Provide medical support and training (i.e. disease state and product) to Novartis colleagues.
14. Serve as a resource for projects and collaborate with internal colleagues
15. Collaborate with Medical Advisors other cross-functional groups (i.e. Business Franchise Teams, Market Access).
Job Dimensions
Number of Direct Reports:
No direct reports, but may lead cross-functional teams
Minimum requirements
Education (minimum/desirable): Required to be considered as a peer of the customer
Base
MD, PharmD, pharmacist, PhD and other life sciences
with solid medical/technical background and proven
competencies influencing skills, clinical research insight, business and market know ledge.
Languages: CPO country language (French and Arabic)
Fluent in English (oral and written).
Experience/Attributes/
Professional requirements:
1. Proven ability to develop and foster peer-to-peer,
credible relationships in order to educate and exchange scientific information with KOL/decision makers.
2. Working knowledge of the Healthcare System and
of the research procedures as well as the ICH guidelines, GCP and other ethical guidelines relevant to the pharmaceutical industry.
3. Thorough knowledge of clinical medicine, disease
management, and medical research in at least one
therapeutic area.
4. Ability to synthesize recent scientific information,
analyze them within strategic and regulatory
settings.
5. Proven ability to use IT tools and interface
effectively with a variety of technical platforms.
6. Strong personal integrity, and customer focus.
7. Excellent interpersonal communication, negotiation
and advanced presentation skills.
8. Effectively contribute to work on multifunctional
teams.
9. Must be able to adapt, organize, prioritize, and
work effectively in a constantly changing field-based
environment.
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