Job Description

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Role and Responsibilities

Job purpose

• Responsible for development and execution of regional medical plans for Therapeutic Area (TA)/Brands by partnering with GEM Portfolio Management, Market Access, Evidence Generation and Medical Excellence teams.
• Provides up-to-date, fair-balanced product-related and clinical expertise to internal and external stakeholders as the in-house scientific expert to Therapeutic Area (TA)/Brands within Growth and Emerging (GEM) markets with focus on defined key countries.
• Establish, develop and foster relationships with key external stakeholders including Global, Regional, local levels through scientific discussions to facilitate and contribute to insight generation, in-depth understanding of the patient journey within TA that eventually guides the creation of medical and brand plans.
• Support TA head on all matters related to medical strategy, medical governance, and compliance within the medical function, by putting the patient\xe2\x80\x99s needs and safety into focus.
• Ensure compliance with regional directives for, amongst others, the release of promotional material, medical representative training materials and medical information.

Major activities

• Develops and execute regional strategic medical plans in line with product life cycle management plan.
• Collaborates with Global/Local medical teams to build medical capabilities and to ensure strategic relevance, timeline and delivery of medical activities.
• Support key countries with the development of local evidence generation activities with focus on RWE.
• Support LCM Global studies and GEM LOCs contribution aligned with strategy and priorities.
• Apply scientific expertise and customer (patient and HCPs) insights to contribute to the development of the Brand Strategy and develop a Medical Plan for each assigned product.
• Ensure excellence and timeliness in implementation of the therapeutic area specific regional medical plans.
• Formulate strategic KOL/Stakeholder engagement plans to inform and assist in evaluating innovative ideas in development of the medical strategy.
• Review and approve promotional/non promotional materials per Takeda policies.
• Develop medical/scientific materials and slide decks as needed (e.g. Advisory board slides/symposia etc) and ensure the content is appropriately reviewed and approved as per Takeda policies.
• Develop and maintain up-to-date knowledge of the TA by reviewing the literature, engaging in ongoing scientific exchange with Key Opinion Leaders and other external stakeholders, attend relevant scientific congresses
• Support/Lead scientific training of internal stakeholders and provide ongoing support and education as needed.
• Co-create GEM brand plan development, in close collaboration with global, regional, and LOC Medical Directors, TA leads and cross functional teams.
• Ensure integrity and correctness of the analysis, interpretation, scientific and marketing validity of the publications produced.
• Lead and provide support to TA specific data generation activities and publications generated within GEM.
• Ensures the scientific integrity, GCP adherence, (global) strategic alignment and safety design of clinical studies undertaken by their regional or LOC medical affairs teams.
• Have a clear understanding of external stakeholder mapping, which will enable development of appropriate and relevant relationships and build networks to meet business objectives.
• Review of research proposals (include IIR, Collaborative Research, etc.) to ensure global alignment and execution of this research within Takeda standards of compliance.
• Ensure that all scientific-medical communications are fair-balanced, based on appropriate scientific evidence, and compliant with local regulatory norms and internal compliance policies.
• Review of early access requests (Named Patient Program, Individual Patient Request) from GEM LOCs and support program manager on operational oversights
• Assist the TA head in proactive risk management and recognize when appropriate actions need to be put into place or highlighted.

Qualification and Experience

• MD (preferred) or PhD human sciences / pharmacology/Bio Sciences

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry (including medical affairs and/or clinical development) at country and preferably above country levels
• Experience in driving and managing the medical strategy in the pharmaceutical industry
• Experiences in IBD and/or psoriasis and new product launch experiences would be asset
• Regional / international experience working in a cross-cultural environment preferred
• Good knowledge of the international healthcare market, able to identify healthcare trends and the related commercially opportunities

Skills & personal characteristics:

• Demonstrates strategic enterprise thinking finding innovative ways to serve patients, and build trust, reputation, and business.
• Understanding of business environment and finds solutions to tough problems.

• Strong planning & organization and prioritization skills; Strong medical and scientific acumen; Delivers results even in complexity and ambiguous situations with a sense of urgency, even in complex and ambiguous situations; Understands the compliance framework and has the ability to work within this environment to achieve business objectives

• Can work collaboratively with a diversity of people with trust and respect.
• Excellent communications skills well versed in written and spoken English.
• CHANGE AGILITY: Challenges the status-quo, develops new ideas to get better results, enjoys leading change efforts
• Clearly understands personal strengths and weaknesses, actively seeks feedback, sensitive of impact on others.

Locations

Singapore, Singapore

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Takeda