Global Brand Medical Director Cosentyx - Rheumatology
Inseriert am: 27.11.2019
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Job ID282799BRPosition TitleGlobal Brand Medical Director Cosentyx - RheumatologyApply to Job
Job Description
Over 250,000! This is the number of patients helped to date with our blockbuster medicine that has change clinical practice and revolutionized psoriasis and spondyloarthritis disease management. We are looking for highly energized, creative, and passionate people to join the Novartis Rheumatology Medical Affairs team to be involved in bringing products to market that improve patients’ lives.
As our Global Brand Medical Director you will drive product medical affairs strategy and action plan along the clinical development program, pre-launch stage and the whole life-cycle. As member of the Brand teams, you align with the Global Product Strategy & Commercialization priorities and the related Development organization. You will ensure that the different indication plans are aligned and integrated.
Your responsibilities will include:
You will develop a comprehensive global scientific/medical affairs strategy for specific compound/brand along the lifecycle – starting at DDP – that clinically differentiates the brand for target patient segments and support successful global and regional/CPO execution in order to maximize the life-time value of each compound. You will act as medical representative on the Global Brand Team and Global Product Team and/or Global Clinical Team (Sub-Team of Global Project Team), and Value Demonstration and Commercialization Team (VDCT). In your role, you will target its activities at the needs and requirements of its major customers and key partners, i.e. KOLs and the medical / scientific community, patients and Health Authorities. You will ensure that HE and Health and Patient Outcome perspectives are integrated into the product development strategy (in order to ensure the access to patient needs are captured and incorporated early enough in the clinical programs) and the medical affairs strategy, e.g. by helping to define appropriate end points for clinical development registration intent studies, designing the most relevant BOS studies, contribute to the most impactful patient and disease segmentation. You will also act as deputy to the GMA franchise Head when absent. You have four major areas of impact:
• Generate clinical evidence within BOS programs, including but not only phase IV clinical trials, to help differentiate the brand, reflecting the medical unmet needs and the competitive and current and future reimbursement environment. Resulting in inclusion of the product by the internationally recognized therapeutical guidelines and Expanded Access programs.
• Create a highly influential medical and scientifically based platform: build global and local KOL relationships, medical impact publication plans, conference participation, medical education and communication initiatives, and patient programs.
• Integrate and align across teams and organizational units to ensure effective medical support of global product strategy.
• Provide proactive input to Development on potential new therapeutical indications, to enrich Registration Intent Programs and to consider new therapeutic opportunities.
Minimum requirements
What you’ll bring to the role:
• Medical degree, with clinical experience and medical affairs experience in the TA (level of required expertise and experience may differ with specialty character of disease area)
• Understanding of English: fluent spoken & written
• Understanding of how to bridge between the development and commercials areas, possibly from prior clinical trial and/or medical affairs experience within pharmaceutical industry
• Prior experience in matrix team management
• Prior experience at Regional level (or large CPO) in Medical Affairs and/or Medical Marketing
• Experience of working in an entrepreneurial, innovative environment e.g. Biotech
WHY CONSIDER NOVARTIS?
750 million. That’s how many lives our products touch. And while we’re proud of that fact, in this world of digital and technological transformation, we must also ask ourselves this: how can we continue to improve and extend even more people’s lives?
We believe the answers are found when curious, courageous and collaborative people like you are empowered to ask new questions, make bolder decisions and take smarter risks.
We are Novartis. Join us and help us reimagine medicine.DivisionPHARMABusiness UnitGLOBAL MEDICAL AFFAIRSLocationSwitzerlandSiteBaselCompany/Legal EntityNovartis Pharma AGFunctional AreaResearch & DevelopmentJob TypeFull TimeEmployment TypeRegular
