Senior Medical Affairs Manager

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Job details

Company overview

We are an international healthcare company engaged in the development, manufacturing, and sales of medical products. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to live a healthy life free from disease and full of possibilities. To achieve this vision, we dedicate ourselves fully each day to promoting innovation and providing smarter, more personalized healthcare solutions. We partner with healthcare professionals in hospital settings such as patient rooms, operating rooms, and intensive care units, as well as in dialysis facilities and patients' homes. Our goal is to enhance treatment efficiency, improve access to care, prevent complications, and ultimately improve patient outcomes. We strive to deliver a range of better products that also consider healthcare economics, ensuring that we contribute positively to both medical treatment and economic aspects.

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities：

• Patient Advocacy & engagement for Home dialysis:
• Develop relationships & drive patient advocacy for Home dialysis with key patient organization to ensure productive partnerships that build on shared patient-focused objectives
• Create and execute collaboration plans with key patient groups & HCP societies based on areas of mutual interest, identify opportunities to educate and empower patient and caregivers and build innovative solutions that address relevant public health, economic and clinical issues
• Lead and assist in the development of patient advocacy focused medical/scientific information resources for various media platforms and properties and monitor metrics.
• Represent patient advocacy and patient perspective in relevant cross functional meetings to elevate the perspective of people living with kidney diseases and their families and advocacy organizations.
• Medical Affairs Strategy & Implementation: Input to Medical affairs strategy related to pre-launch, launch and post launch activities: conceptualize and implement Medical plan in unison with commercial strategy) to support improving patient outcomes
• Establish evidence generation plan( Investigator Initiated studies) in close collaboration with various stakeholders towards conduct of clinical studies to generate scientific data supporting the company's therapy areas of interest
• Support clinical trials for new product development through key scientific inputs & HCP engagement
• Develop High Impact Clinical education( non-promotional education) and voice of customer( advisory boards) initiatives in close collaboration with National societies
• Work closely in a cross-functional approach with the therapy unit to identify the unmet needs and bring voice of customer to the table cultivating innovation – medical advisory boards
• Develop Digital education initiatives: webinars, digital education contents on therapy
• KOL and professional society Management
• Cross functional insights & support:
• With marketing team: Design/provide medical insights for the Marketing team and strategize dissemination of therapy-related communication to support brand management
• With regional teams: Effectively interface with the regional and global team to ensure optimal implementation of regional & global initiatives.
• With Market access teams: Effectively interface with market access to provide subject matter expertise that enables resolution of market access and funding issues. This includes working closely with the Market Access team in designing and implementing the HEOR studies/data.
• With commercial excellence: Therapy training to commercial team
• With business development team: provides insights towards medical due diligence activities
• Compliance: Review of promotional material & material for submission to regulatory authorities
• Provide therapy training to the commercial colleagues.

Requirements

Minimum requirments:

• Medical Doctor who has experience in Nephrology, Medical Affairs (of other specialty, Science graduate/Non-doctor) personnel who has worked in Renal/ Diabetes/ Cardiology/ Critical Care therapy area
• Minimum 5 years’ experience of medical affairs
• Demonstrated success in patient advocacy & engagement to drive access to therapies
• Deep knowledge of the medical device and pharmaceutical industry, with an understanding of applicable regulations that impact industry advocacy and communications
• Should have the ability to assimilate into a fast moving, dynamic organization and to perform whatever necessary to help the organization achieve its goals and objectives
• Should have the ability to effectively work and perform in cross functional teams
• Should have experience creating new scientific engagement platforms
• Should have ability to present scientific data
• Strategic perspective, effectively organizes data to identify trends, problems, and causes
• Systematically evaluates opportunities and targets those with the greatest potential for producing positive results with the minimum amount of risk
• Effectively articulates new and different ways of thinking and doing business
• Translates concepts and ideas into actionable plans
• Ability to resolve emerging issues using existing teams and/or an established network of expert consultants
• Demonstrate capability for scientific, creative and strategic thinking, championing ideas for positions, and an ability to present and maintain fair-balance during scientific discussions
• Stays confident when challenged, stating the rationale for ones viewpoint clearly while listening to and respecting others right to different opinions
• Interpersonal Skills & Influence Adapts communication style to the audience in order to be heard
• Establishes and maintains collegial peer-to-peer relationships with a wide range of external thought leaders including physicians, pharmacists, and allied healthcare professionals
• Demonstrates organizational awareness and experience working on cross functional teams
• Invests time in teamwork and developing collaborative relationships with other teams and individuals

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced skills and experience with scientific literature review and evaluation

Salary

12 - 14 million yen

Location

Tokyo