We are seeking an expert MSL-Oncology Consultant to represent Company's Medical Affairs as a subject matter expert in Oncology. You will provide scientific and technical leadership, developing credible relationships with external experts and healthcare professionals, and serving as a key point of contact for scientific knowledge. This role involves developing and executing scientific interaction plans, facilitating research initiatives, and supporting internal teams with scientific updates, all while ensuring strict compliance.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Represent Company's Medical Affairs as a subject matter expert in Oncology and the assigned territory, providing scientific and technical leadership to ensure professional and credible relationships with external experts /HCPs of strategic importance to Company.
- Serve as a point of contact within the Medical Affairs team for external experts within an assigned geographic area to satisfy their needs for scientific knowledge in the assigned therapeutic area and, when requested, relevant medicines, to support their safe, effective, and appropriate use.
- Develop and execute scientific interaction plans and cycle plans; contribute to cross-functional account planning, as appropriate.
- Responsible for appropriate tiering and segmentation of external experts based on guidance from the IFT playbooks and appropriate documentation of HCP interactions and relevant insights in the Veeva CRM and related platforms and systems.
- Ensure a strong medical and scientific presence for Company in key academic centers by facilitation of research and educational initiatives, while supporting requests for medical and scientific information on products or areas of therapeutic interest to Company.
- Support internal teams such as sales and marketing and members of the Affiliate Brand Team to develop their scientific and technical expertise through the delivery of scientific update presentations. Work collaboratively and cross-functionally with other in-field members while retaining functional independence.
- Assist in the initiation, oversight, and follow-up of assigned GMA studies and medical projects initiated within the therapeutic area for which the MSL carries responsibility (e.g., registry/database projects, epidemiological studies, post-authorization studies (PMOS), where applicable).
- Support prioritized interventional studies run by Clinical Development Operations, with study initiation visits, and act as subject matter expert, where applicable, as part of One R&D community. All such activities must comply with applicable local laws, guidelines, codes of practice, SOPs, and R&D SOPs.
- Ensure that all activities and interactions are conducted with due regard to all applicable local, global, and national laws, regulations, guidelines, codes of conduct, Company policies, and accepted standards of best practice.
Skills Required:
- Solid knowledge of the pharmaceutical environment and the role of Medical Affairs to advance the medical and scientific objectives of a pharmaceutical company.
- Demonstrated expertise in the scientific methods applied to clinical research and current legislative/regulatory controls applicable to this research will be an added advantage.
- Ability to comprehensively learn about new subject areas and environments.
- Excellent written and spoken communication and presentation skills, with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with thought leaders, physicians, and other healthcare decision-makers.
- A good understanding of written and oral English is a must.
- High customer orientation.
- Strong commitment to compliance with the relevant rules and procedures, and to scientific quality and integrity.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- MBBS and MD (Preferable). Candidates with an undergraduate degree with relevant years of experience will be considered.
