Country Medical Affairs Head

Job Description Summary

Country Medical Affairs Head
Location: Manila

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As Medical Affairs Head Philippines you will serve as the lead medical representative in the country and a trusted advisor to the Country Leadership Team. You will define and execute the near- and long-term medical strategy strengthen scientific and medical excellence across disease areas and ensure best-in-class launch readiness. You will also play a key role in shaping the external healthcare environment building partnerships with healthcare communities and government stakeholders and transforming the medical organization to meet evolving scientific business and patient needs.

Job Description

Major accountabilities:

• Shape and execute the Philippines medical strategy in alignment with global and international priorities.

• Serve as the scientific ethical and medical authority within the Country Leadership Team.

• Drive medical excellence governance evidence generation and scientific leadership across therapeutic areas.

• Lead end-to-end launch readiness in partnership with commercial access regulatory and cross-functional teams.

• Build strategic partnerships with healthcare professionals scientific societies payers policymakers patient groups and broader ecosystem stakeholders.

• Champion innovative and digital approaches to data generation stakeholder engagement and medical insights.

• Lead and transform the medical organization to be future-ready agile compliant and digitally enabled.

• Build a high-performing culture by attracting developing coaching and retaining strong medical talent.

Requirements:

• Medical Doctor (MD) qualification

• 10 years of experience in Medical Affairs including 35 years in senior medical leadership roles such as Medical Director Medical Unit Lead or TA Medical Lead.

• Proven people leadership experience including building developing and leading high-performing medical or scientific teams.

• Strong understanding of the local healthcare system payer dynamics policy frameworks and therapeutic area science.

• Successful track record in pre-launch and launch strategy across therapeutic areas.

• Experience shaping HTA reimbursement pricing access and local evidence strategies.

• Strong background in evidence generation including IITs MAPs real-world evidence observational studies and clinical trial collaboration.

• Established external engagement experience with KOLs scientific societies policymakers payers regulators and broader healthcare ecosystem partners.

• Experience leading transformation capability building and digital enablement within Medical Affairs.

Skills Desired

Agility (Inactive) Cross-Functional Collaboration Healthcare Sector Understanding (Inactive) Influencing Skills Innovation Inspirational Leadership Integrated Evidence Generation (Inactive) Medical Affairs Medical Communications People Management Priority Disease Areas Expertise (Inactive) Product Launches Real World Evidence (RWE) Regulatory Compliance Research Methodologies Results-Oriented Stakeholder Engagement Stakeholder Management