Therapy Area Specialist
Petaling Jaya - Malaysia
Job Summary
Job Description
Therapy Area Specialist
A Therapy Area Specialist role an in-field marketing role excels in disease and brand knowledge to enable in-depth discussion with oncology customers and supports therapy area strategy development & execution in close collaboration with oncology cross-functional team
WHAT YOU WILL DO (it is included but not limited as below mentioned):
Customer engagement
Demonstrate in-depth disease treatment indication and brand knowledge (including patient pathway stakeholder mapping) to enable impactful discussion with customers on demand ensuring service standard are met based on HQ marketing guideline
Facilitate speaker programs and peer-to-peer clinical experience sharing programs; conduct educational talks to physician groups and other healthcare stakeholders (e.g. pharmacists nurses) for product education updates and with HCPs
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Professional Sales Representatives in customer engagement to ensure customers information needs are addressed timely
Marketing execution and strategy support
Document and provide customer insights to cross-functional teams and contribute to key decision maker identification & mapping and brand strategy development
Support marketing in the development of promotional material leveraging customer insights gained through customer interactions
Create contents for local and international conferences forums speaker programs accordance to HQ marketing guidelines
Support marketing tactic planning and execution in alignment with brand strategy (event planning and execution etc.)
Support market shaping effort aligned to brand strategy
Other internal support
Provide regular internal disease treatment indication training to cross-functional team and onboard new customer facing members
Contribute to development & execution of account plans in collaboration with cross functional team to deliver impactful strategies that accelerate value for company
WHAT YOU MUST HAVE
Degree in life sciences preferably an university pharmacy degree
2 or more years experience working with HCPs ideally representing multiple products and working across a complex healthcare system environment
Good understanding of healthcare environment trends
Understanding of industry legal regulatory and compliance landscape
Ability to assimilate and communicate complex clinical and product information to broad audience of different level of technical expertise
Experience in building long term customer relationships and advocacy development
Ability to train and mentor customer facing team
Ability to seek out relevant information prioritize and apply information to solve complex problems in the ecosystem in a timely manner
Ability to work in a cross-functional environment and able to collaborate with other team members to provide best support to customers
Required Skills:
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This person will be required to travel within Malaysia
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Job Posting End Date:
04/27/2026*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFOREthe listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.
Required Experience:
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About Company
Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA is known as “Merck” in the United States, Canada & Puerto Rico. We are known as “MSD” in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America & Asia Pacific. We are a global biopharmaceutical leader with a diverse portfolio of prescription medicine ... View more