Senior Scientific Advisor

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Job Function:

Medical Affairs Group

Job Sub Function:

Medical Science Liaison

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Mongkok, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Job Description:

This position will be on Oncology Therapeutic Area. Final banding may adjust based on actual experience. Please reach out to me for detailed JD.

Summary

• The Scientific Advisor role is a member of Medical Affairs Department and play a major role in providing expert scientific advice on branding and strategic development within assigned therapeutic areas

• Individual in this position facilitate pipeline product introduction and on-market product access by developing scientific relationships with external stakeholders and collaborating with all internal stakeholders to develop and implement the overall medical strategy in alignment with therapeutic brand strategy as well as company strategy

• Scientific Advisor is responsible for the implementation of all related medical affairs activities including KOL development, scientific communication, medical education, data generation, pre-approval access, unsolicited medical information, review and approval of promotional materials and internal training

Medical Affairs Strategy and Tactical Plan

• Develop and implement Medical Affairs Strategy for the therapeutic Area or individual product

• Provides “expert medical advice/ insights” into overall launch and product strategy to cross-functional team during new indication or product launch

• Working closely with local colleagues from marketing, IMAT, regulatory affairs colleagues during local business planning and strategic planning. Has overall ownership for the medical affairs component of a brand plan

• Medical Affairs strategy are aligned with the brand and company strategy and executed on time with well budget management

• Ensure medical leadership during cross-functional meetings

KOL Development Strategy

• Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with external stakeholders and to identify relevant KOLs for the contribution of medical activities

• Develop and implement KOL development plan

Scientific Communication

• Maintain a high level of expertise and up-to-date knowledge about the therapeutic area, treatment guidelines or competitors landscape

• Highly detailed knowledge of our products and how they “fit” into the therapeutic area.

• Be seen as the local therapeutic area/ product expert at a peer level with HCPs

• Gain valuable insights through in-depth scientific data discussion and interactions with HCPs on pre-launch and marketed products

• Pre- and Post-conference preparation and presentation of scientific data to internal or external stakeholders

Medical Education

• Identification of local education needs of external stakeholders

• Build medical education partnership with HCPs or medical society

• To provide speakers with scientific information on company areas of interest or research programs

Data Generation

• Development of data generation program/ activities to address local data gaps to achieve better patient outcomes and aligned overall brand strategy

• May interact with investigators who initiate requests for support of clinical studies that they design and will conduct in compliance with applicable company policy

• Support execution of company-sponsored clinical studies responsible by Global Clinical Operation (GCO)

Pre-approval Access

• Manage the communication and logistics of pre-approval access program with internal and external stakeholders

Unsolicited Medical Information

• Provide medical information upon request to HCPs within the approved or off-label indications with well documentation

Review and Approval of promotional materials

• Contributes to the development of promotional materials by providing medical insight to marketing colleagues

• Review and approval of promotional materials according to local laws, code of practice and company SOP compliance

Training/ Knowledge sharing

• Work with marketing and sale manager to develop sales training plan ahead of product launch, line extension and throughout a product’s lifecycle

• Conduct disease or product training to internal staff as/ when required

Medical Compliance

• Ensure 100% completion of company SOP and compulsory training

• Ensure all medical activities are conducted within the company compliance principles

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Analytics Dashboards, Analytics Insights, Clinical Trials, Coaching, Collaborating, Communication, Critical Thinking, Customer Centricity, Data Reporting, Digital Culture, Digital Literacy, Medical Affairs, Medical Communications, Medical Compliance, Product Knowledge, Research and Development, Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Thinking, Technical Credibility, Technologically Savvy