Medical Affairs Manager - Biosimilar

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Core Job Responsibilities:

Commercial Teams Business Partner (Marketing, Sales, Trade)

• Medical Strategy Execution 

• Implement medical plans aligned with product lifecycle goals (pre-launch, launch, post-marketing).  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Clinical Development, Marketing, Market Access) to ensure medical insights inform business decisions.  

•  Scientific Exchange & KOL Engagement

• Build and maintain relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), HCPs, and academic institutions.  
• Organize and lead advisory boards, scientific meetings, and medical education programs.  

• Evidence Generation 

• Support the design and execution of Phase IV/post-marketing studies, real-world evidence (RWE) projects, and investigator-initiated trials (IITs).  
• Interpret clinical data and contribute to scientific publications, abstracts, and congress presentations.  

• Medical Content Development

• Review and approve medical materials (e.g., slide decks, FAQs, training documents) to ensure accuracy and compliance.  
• Provide medical input for promotional materials and ensure adherence to regulatory guidelines (e.g., FDA, PHAP).  

• Medical Support

• Act as a medical resource for internal teams (Sales, Marketing, MSLs) and external stakeholders.  
• Address unsolicited medical inquiries from HCPs, ensuring timely and evidence-based responses.  

• Continuing Medical Education

• Work with the Medical Affairs Director and CME personnel in planning for medical modules for use in CME activities like round table discussions, expert’s forum.
• Work with the Medical Affairs Director, CME Personnel, Therapeutic/Brand Managers in deliberating with KOL and Advisory Board members the contents of medical module for specific products.
• Review contents of medical modules, invitations to CME activities, CME AVP to ensure compliance to internal and external regulations.

• Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure all activities comply with industry regulations (e.g., FDA, PHAP), company SOPs, and ethics and compliance standards. 
• Mitigate risks by maintaining up-to-date knowledge of therapeutic area guidelines and competitor landscape. 

• Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Clinical Operations on trial recruitment and data dissemination. 
• Support market access by raising disease awareness and securing national and institutional formulary inclusions in relevant therapeutic areas.

• Patient Support Programs

• Provide scientific and ethical guidance to marketing managers in conceptualizing programs that will enhance benefits to pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to patients.
• Review contents of patient-centric materials disseminated by Abbott and specific programs that aim to assist patients, family members and community cope with diseases.
• Inventory and tracking of patient support programs, market research programs to ensure compliance to ethical guidance and monitor for any pharmacovigilance issues.

• New Product Introductions

• Assist the Senior Medical Manager in providing the business development unit, medical input in evaluating products for potential introduction into the local market.
• Provide medical support to the marketing team during the early planning/strategies for new products, line extensions, and/or new indications.

Medical Education & Training

Actively provide support to the training manager (Commercial Excellence)

• Provide disease knowledge training, training in understanding the patient journey from pre-diagnosis, diagnosis, and pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment options.
• Provide training on basic pharmacology, clinical uses of Abbott products.
• Create and update training materials on patients, disease, and products.

Minimum Education:

• A Doctor of Medicine graduate and with license to practice in the Philippines as given by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).

Minimum Experience/Training Required:

• Preferably at least three years of pharmaceutical industry experience and at least one year of postgraduate clinical experience.
• Knowledge and Experience:

• Knowledge of disease diagnosis and rational treatment, both pharmacological and non-pharmacological
• Clinical experience in managing patients: skills in doctor-patient communication, doctor-patient relationship,
• Knowledge and experience in the pharmaceutical industry:
  • Scientific and ethical standards governing pharmaceutical products
  • Teaching skills on the patient’s illness, the patient journey, and available treatment options
  • Research: access relevant journal articles from indexed databases, interpretation of data and results of clinical studies
  • Presentation skills synthesizing relevant medical concepts obtained from peer-reviewed references

• Competencies Required:

• Must have intense attention to details, able to work in a team environment, good organizational skills, and has a multi- tasking ability
• Strong communication skills
• Influencing and Leadership Skills
• Skills on synthesizing and integrating medical concepts from different sources/references and create a teaching module for specific disease/products
• Knowledge and skills in communicating medical concepts to marketing and sales team with or without medical background
• Core competencies essential in education which include: integrity, adaptability, collaboration, initiative, innovation

     

The base pay for this position is

N/A

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Medical & Scientific Affairs

     

DIVISION:

EPD Established Pharma

        

LOCATION:

Philippines > Taguig City : Venice Corporate Center

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Not specified

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Not Applicable