Medical Advisor/Senior Medical Vaccines at Takeda – Apply Now!
Looking to advance your career in Medical Affairs? Takeda is hiring a Medical Advisor/Senior Medical Advisor – Vaccines in Mumbai. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge vaccine research, collaborate with healthcare experts, and drive impactful medical strategies. If you’re passionate about scientific excellence, strategic leadership, and improving patient care, this role is perfect for you!
Job Description
Position Title: Medical Advisor/Senior Medical Advisor – Vaccines, Medical Affairs
Primary Duties
- Supporting development and implementation of Country / Cluster Medical Brand Plans of an assigned product in a focused disease area/s
- Systematically leading identification of the scientific exchange needs of Key Opinion Leaders, investigators and other stakeholders in patient care, establishing strong professional relationships and providing credible scientific expertise
- Leading the design and implementation of best-in-class scientific programs with external KOLs, investigators and Global Medical Affairs and Global Clinical partners
- Responding effectively to requests for scientific exchange
- Supporting local team disease area and product knowledge through scientific training
- Maintaining personal and medical team expertise in relevant product disease areas and Medical best practices
Responsibilities
- 20% Supporting development and implementation of Country Medical Brand
- Plans of an assigned product in a focused disease area
- Serve as SME in assigned product and Collaborate with Therapy Area Lead and Cross-Functional Team to provide country input into local Product related Medical Plan
- Define specific medical programs and activities (e.g. medical meetings, disease state education, advisory boards) and associated resource requirements/budgets
- Define key performance indicators and metrics to track progress against the activity plan
- 25% Systematically lead identification of the scientific exchange needs of
- KOLs, investigators and other stakeholders in patient care, establish
- strong professional relationships, and provide credible product specific
- scientific expertise
- ▪ Develop and maintain “peer-to-peer” scientific relationships with key thought leaders in healthcare, academia and government organizations per KOL plans and as requested by KOLs, including the management of strategic
- scientific partnerships and scientific exchange
- Work with field MSL/ RMA teams in assigned TA to support scientific content and help facilitate interactions with healthcare professionals
- Serve presence at external meetings including scientific symposia and cooperative group meetings.
Education and Experience Requirements
- MBBS/MD is preferred.
- >2-4 years of experience in biopharmaceutical medicine in Medical Affairs is preferred
- Experience in customer-facing roles is preferred
- Experience in the assigned disease areas (Vaccines) is preferred
Key Skills, Abilities, and Competencies
- Subject Matter Expertise/ Strategic Foresight; Business Acumen
- Customer Centricity
- ▪Organization Agility
- Result Orientation
- Planning and Organizing
- Ethical Fitness and Compliance with Standards and Guidelines
- Communication & Quality Orientation
- Effective listening skills
- Ability to partner and collaborate appropriately with Commercial functions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Complexity and Problem Solving
- Team and individual activity plan development overseen by Therapy Area Lead
- Scientific project design and management
- External and internal stakeholder management and interaction
- Internal and External Contacts Position is accountable to the Therapy Area Lead
- Internal Collaboration: Compliance, Marketing, Patient services, Market Access, Legal, Country HR, Country Commercial, Global Medical, Global Clinical
- External: Key opinion leaders, investigators, HCPs, patient advocacy groups, regional policy makers, etc.
Other Job Requirements
- Domestic and international travel: To congresses and in-country meetings
- Frequent travel to KOL locations
- Approximately 40-50% of travel time
Locations: Mumbai, India
Worker Type: Employee
Worker Sub-Type: Regular
Time Type: Full time:
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