Medical Affairs Manager Biosimilar

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Core Job Responsibilities:

Commercial Teams Business Partner (Marketing Sales Trade)

• Medical Strategy Execution

• Implement medical plans aligned with product lifecycle goals (pre-launch launch post-marketing).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Clinical Development Marketing Market Access) to ensure medical insights inform business decisions.

• Scientific Exchange & KOL Engagement

• Build and maintain relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) HCPs and academic institutions.
• Organize and lead advisory boards scientific meetings and medical education programs.

• Evidence Generation

• Support the design and execution of Phase IV/post-marketing studies real-world evidence (RWE) projects and investigator-initiated trials (IITs).
• Interpret clinical data and contribute to scientific publications abstracts and congress presentations.

• Medical Content Development

• Review and approve medical materials (e.g. slide decks FAQs training documents) to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Provide medical input for promotional materials and ensure adherence to regulatory guidelines (e.g. FDA PHAP).

• Medical Support

• Act as a medical resource for internal teams (Sales Marketing MSLs) and external stakeholders.
• Address unsolicited medical inquiries from HCPs ensuring timely and evidence-based responses.

• Continuing Medical Education

• Work with the Medical Affairs Director and CME personnel in planning for medical modules for use in CME activities like round table discussions experts forum.
• Work with the Medical Affairs Director CME Personnel Therapeutic/Brand Managers in deliberating with KOL and Advisory Board members the contents of medical module for specific products.
• Review contents of medical modules invitations to CME activities CME AVP to ensure compliance to internal and external regulations.

• Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure all activities comply with industry regulations (e.g. FDA PHAP) company SOPs and ethics and compliance standards.
• Mitigate risks by maintaining up-to-date knowledge of therapeutic area guidelines and competitor landscape.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Clinical Operations on trial recruitment and data dissemination.
• Support market access by raising disease awareness and securing national and institutional formulary inclusions in relevant therapeutic areas.

• Patient Support Programs

• Provide scientific and ethical guidance to marketing managers in conceptualizing programs that will enhance benefits to pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to patients.
• Review contents of patient-centric materials disseminated by Abbott and specific programs that aim to assist patients family members and community cope with diseases.
• Inventory and tracking of patient support programs market research programs to ensure compliance to ethical guidance and monitor for any pharmacovigilance issues.

• New Product Introductions

• Assist the Senior Medical Manager in providing the business development unit medical input in evaluating products for potential introduction into the local market.
• Provide medical support to the marketing team during the early planning/strategies for new products line extensions and/or new indications.

Medical Education & Training

Actively provide support to the training manager (Commercial Excellence)

• Provide disease knowledge training training in understanding the patient journey from pre-diagnosis diagnosis and pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment options.
• Provide training on basic pharmacology clinical uses of Abbott products.
• Create and update training materials on patients disease and products.

Minimum Education:

• A Doctor of Medicine graduate and with license to practice in the Philippines as given by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).

Minimum Experience/Training Required:

• Preferably at least three years of pharmaceutical industry experience and at least one year of postgraduate clinical experience.
• Knowledge and Experience:

• Knowledge of disease diagnosis and rational treatment both pharmacological and non-pharmacological
• Clinical experience in managing patients: skills in doctor-patient communication doctor-patient relationship
• Knowledge and experience in the pharmaceutical industry:
  • Scientific and ethical standards governing pharmaceutical products
  • Teaching skills on the patients illness the patient journey and available treatment options
  • Research: access relevant journal articles from indexed databases interpretation of data and results of clinical studies
  • Presentation skills synthesizing relevant medical concepts obtained from peer-reviewed references

• Competencies Required:

• Must have intense attention to details able to work in a team environment good organizational skills and has a multi- tasking ability
• Strong communication skills
• Influencing and Leadership Skills
• Skills on synthesizing and integrating medical concepts from different sources/references and create a teaching module for specific disease/products
• Knowledge and skills in communicating medical concepts to marketing and sales team with or without medical background
• Core competencies essential in education which include: integrity adaptability collaboration initiative innovation

The base pay for this position is

In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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