Medical Affairs Job at Azurity Pharmaceuticals
Dive into an exceptional opportunity within the pharmaceutical realm. Azurity Pharmaceuticals is on the lookout for a Manager of Medical Affairs to enhance their team in Hyderabad, Telangana. This Medical Affairs Job allows professionals to significantly impact the company’s mission of delivering innovative solutions to underserved patients.
About Azurity Pharmaceuticals:
Azurity Pharmaceuticals is a privately held, speciality pharmaceutical company that focuses on innovative products that meet the needs of underserved patients. As an industry leader in providing unique, accessible, and high-quality medications, Azurity leverages its integrated capabilities and vast partner network to continually expand its broad commercial product portfolio and robust late-stage pipeline. The company’s patient-centric products span the cardiovascular, neurology, endocrinology, gastrointestinal, institutional, and orphan markets, benefiting millions of patients.
Job Details:
- Company: Azurity Pharmaceuticals
- Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Job Description:
The Manager of Medical Information is a key member of the Medical Affairs team who leverages therapeutic and product knowledge to oversee internal and external communication on Azurity products, including the management of unsolicited medical information requests from health care providers (HCPs) and other external stakeholders. This person will provide medical/scientific input to cross-functional teams and will also be responsible for contributing to creating non-clinical reports and various scientific communications. It is expected that this candidate will develop strong expertise in Azurity’s relevant therapeutic areas.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide clinical and technical product knowledge in response to clinical/medical inquiries from external and internal customers.
- Respond with a sense of urgency and ensure accurate, timely, and appropriate verbal and written responses to unsolicited medical information inquiries from HCPs, payers and managed healthcare organisations, which are not covered by existing responses.
- Help support the MI team with guiding the Medical Information Call Centre, including but not limited to, helping with escalated cases and providing ongoing training/coaching to ensure excellent customer service by the call centre staff.
- Develop and maintain a product knowledge database, including standard response letters (SRLs) and “frequently asked questions” (FAQ) documents by utilising the highest level of scientific data so that HCPs can make informed and educated clinical decisions about Azurity’s products.
- Analyse reports and metrics to identify trends, insights and knowledge gaps and provide quarterly updates to internal stakeholders.
- Review new and relevant data so that content is updated proactively, resulting in the most current information in medical information resources for Medical Affairs colleagues and call centre staff to share with HCPs regarding Azurity’s products.
- Collaborate with internal partners to support both the Promotional Material Review Committee (PMRC) and Scientific Review Committee (SRC), to ensure the provision of medical information is accurate and scientifically balanced.
- Build a strong relationship and partnership with internal stakeholders (Clinical Development, Commercial/Marketing, Regulatory, Legal, Quality Assurance, Market Access, etc.).
- Collaborate with the broader Medical Affairs team to assist with topic-specific presentations to share new information regarding a product/disease state or help fulfill knowledge gaps.
- Assisting with coordinating, escalating and reviewing legal contracts relating to Medical Affairs activities.
- Perform other Medical Information-related support and expanded functions, as required.
Eligibility Criteria for this Medical Affairs Job:
- A minimum of 1 or more years’ professional experience in Medical Affairs/Medical Information in a pharmaceutical company or 3+ years in a contact/call centre working on behalf of a pharmaceutical company.
Required Skills for this Medical Affairs Job:
- An advanced degree in health sciences (e.g., PharmD, PhD) with a thorough grasp of the pharmaceutical industry is preferred. A master’s or bachelor’s-level degree in health sciences (e.g., RN, RPh, PA, NP, etc.) would be considered.
- Medical/Drug Information postdoctoral training/fellowship in speciality OR residency and/or postdoctoral training in a clinical practice/pharmaceutical industry setting is preferred.
