Medical Engagement Partner

Novartis Baltics SIA

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JOB PURPOSE

TA MEP is responsible for shaping and contributing to a near-term and long-term medical strategy in allocated therapy area, aiming to improve patient access and outcomes. Provides medical input to the Integrated Product Strategy. Executes the medical communication plan within allocated budget via strong scientific presence in the field. Acts as medical expert in the therapy area. Contributes to clinical development and life cycle management of Novartis portfolio, in close collaboration with Country, Regional, and Global teams. Represents voice of medical community within Novartis, and ensures the best interest of patients and caregivers are met.

TA MEP is externally focused and works in close collaboration with TA team, constantly aligning tactics and strategy execution, actively participating in main internal meetings.

MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES

Medical Strategic Plans:

Early identification of drivers and barriers of patient journey. Understands and follows trends in disease area and routinely assesses gaps in practice vs guideline-directed therapy.
Builds and executes the local Medical Affairs Plan and Medical External Engagement Plan (MEEP), based on stakeholder needs and in line with the strategic plans.
Builds partnerships with healthcare professionals and organizations around common medical needs. Identifies opportunities for joint value creation through engagement with the key scientific leaders and other key external players in the healthcare system. Follows Impact of Scientific Awareness Continuum (iSAC) for customer adoption.
Collects, analyses and reports relevant insights (advisory boards, F2F meetings, medical trends etc), to shape/adapt the disease area strategy.
Brings clarity to the medical strategy and the tactics in the therapeutic area by own medical/scientific knowledge/interpretation/judgement and deep understanding of external voice/environment as medical/scientific/clinical research expert.
Collaborates with internal colleagues to discuss Health Care Professionals and System's dynamics and takes decisions accordingly.
Builds Health Care System's relationships and collaboration, partnering and building trust/commitment.
Contributes to regulatory documents (SmPC, BSS), and reimbursement files to health authorities
Supervises promotional and non-promotional materials preparation and checks their correctness and compliance with national and company's requirements/regulations from the medical point of view
Takes corrective measures to achieve Target Patient and Population Outcomes (TPOs) KPIs.

Field Medical Activities:

Develops and maintains long-term peer to peer professional relationships with medical specialists, healthcare professionals, investigators. Utilizing therapy area and product knowledge to engage with HCPs through non-promotional, evidence based scientific dialogue.
Provides medical support as part of a cross-functional team to relevant clinical development studies including feasibility and quality research site recommendations, medical educational activities to support patient recruitment and strategic support for priority trials.
Provides and discusses scientific information and data with HCPs to ensure quality and accuracy of medical and scientific information on new treatment options including Novartis products and selected areas of therapeutic interest. Supports scientific exchange to advance understanding of new scientific principles, novel research trends, and current scientific debate.
Reports field activities, including medical events, to CRM system (OnCore), ensures data timeliness, accuracy and completeness, including Medical insights.

Compliance and Risk Management

Ensures full support for Pharmacovigilance including compliance with Adverse Event reporting and works with MH to ensure Risk Management plan implementation.
Accounts for full regulatory and compliance adherence across all Medical TA activities.

Quality

Reviews high level quality and compliance metrics to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and internal policies.
Reviews the Site Quality Risk Assessment outcomes and participates in decisions on risk reduction, remediation plans or acceptance of risks.
Ensures TA team members are properly trained on therapy and compounds and are qualified to perform their duties as defined in Role Profile.
On time reports own received spontaneous adverse events (AE) and technical complaints for all Novartis products.

JOB DIMENSIONS

Number of associates: None

Financial responsibility: Management of TA Medical budget

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS / MEASURES OF SUCCESS

(Quality and Quantity) Impact on patient access and outcomes (HTA reports, treatment protocols, eligible population, scientific awareness, medical metrics)
Positive trends in dynamics of Medical advocacy and medical metrics
Medical Affairs Plan Execution
Adherence to financial targets (phase IV Budget) in the respective Therapeutic area
Quality of P3 approvals
Outcomes from Audits/Inspections
Quality of medical contribution to internal and external forums
Innovative project
Contribution to the Quality System in the country organization implementation/building a system linked to an important Medical Affairs process.
Feedback from cross-functional teams and stakeholders

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

Required degree: University Degree in Medicine / Pharmacy physician/pharmacist, specialist in a clinical area, preferably with PhD and/or some scientific training

Desirable degree: MD, Pharm.D

Languages: Fluent English written and spoken

Other required skills: Work with PC MS Office

Required positions: Senior Medical Advisor

Desirable positions: Medical Affairs Manager

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES:

Business Understanding: Thorough understanding and input into local CPO and global business strategies in the designated areas of medicine/medical science. Ensuring compatibility between current clinical practice and business objectives, focused around joint Medical Marketing.

Broad Medical Knowledge: Thorough understanding of designated areas of medicine and the current hot issues. Capability to operate across designated therapeutic areas and healthcare issues, and provide innovative solutions related to these areas.

Drug Development: Supporting the drug development process with high quality clinical data collected to achieve strategic and operational objectives for the portfolio. Applies knowledge of relevant local and global regulations in clinical program.

Science and Technology: Applying scientific information and a broad understanding of biomedical/pharmaceutical science and working proactively with experts from all functions to optimize drug development.

Operational Excellence: Implementing clinical development strategy using optimized processes to meet regulatory standards and marketing/commercial needs.

Clinical Communication and Information Management: Influencing key stakeholders internally and externally through effective management and communication of clinical and preclinical information.

Strategic Thinking: Integrating current and future medical, regulatory and marketing needs to maximize product value and market potential.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Innovation/Creativity: New approaches to conducting clinical trials, e-clinical etc., joint medical marketing, are crucial to achieving efficiencies and competitive advantage.

Customer/Quality Focus: Proactive support of external regulatory and business customers through dedicated approaches.

Results Focus: Frequently gaining challenging clinical, trial and regulatory issues to drive towards success through innovative problem-solving approaches.

Communication: Widely varying communication needs addressed through diverse and changing methods, both internally and externally; to engage and captivate audiences.

Cooperation: At CPO level building teams (GDD, marketing/sales) and exploiting synergies within.

Accountability: Defines clear performance targets and personal accountabilities. Takes responsibility for own actions. Undertakes consequences of success or failure.

Fast/Action-oriented: Is action-oriented and full of energy to face challenging situations. Is decisive, seizes opportunities and ensures fast implementation.

Commitment/Self-discipline: Fully supports and implements decisions. Is fully committed to achieve agreed-upon targets. Stays focused upon achieving agreed targets in face of competing organizational priorities.

Mėnesinis bruto atlyginimasBruto/mėn. € 4900