Job Description

6! Strong values define our culture and help us executive Novartis strategy in line with our mission and vision. These values and behaviors are Innovation, Quality, Collaboration, Performance, Courage and Integrity.

Bringing life-changing medicines to millions of people, Novartis sits at the intersection of cutting-edge medical science and innovative digital technology. As a global company, the resources and opportunities for growth and development are plentiful including global and local cross functional careers, a diverse learning suite of thousands of programs and an in-house marketplace for rotations and project work. With strong medicines pipeline our current transformation will not just deliver growth for our business but continue to allow us to bring innovative medicines to patients quickly.

In this role as Senior Medical Lead, you'll be responsible for supporting the design, implementation and execution of Medical Affairs plans for an assigned Therapy Area, providing scientific information, helping design and organise clinical studies, building educational dialogue with KOLs and regulatory partners.

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Support country medical affairs strategy in line with the global strategy, country insights and market conditions, and secure implementation of planned Medical Affairs activities within the designated therapy area(s).
• Coordinate scientific meeting, symposia, congresses, Continuous Medical Education (CME) ,other medical or scientific exchange and engagement activities which could bring additional value to the relevant therapy area.
• Develop strategic engagement plan(s) for country customer-facing medical activities, events, and ensure timely execution of planned medical affairs activities in an efficient and compliant way.
• Ensure medical enquiries are responded to in a high quality, timely manner, and in accordance with applicable standards.
• Provide medical or scientific input into the development and execution of clinical trial or clinical research related activities, including initiation and oversight of clinical
• Studies or clinical research within the respective therapeutic area. Support country strategy for Non-Interventional Studies or Investigator Initiated Trial activities.
• Coordinate review and approval of medical materials and locally developed promotional materials. Ensure medical materials provided from global or region for stakeholder engagement and events are tailored to local needs, and reviewed,approved per local/P3 guidelines.
• Ensure medical insights are provided to cross functional groups, including, but not restricted to: Pharmacovigilance, Regulatory affairs, Market Access, QA, Commercial teams, Brand team and others.
• Responsible for risk identification and assessment, mitigation planning as well as implementation and monitoring of appropriate internal controls within the area of responsibilities.

Minimum requirements

What you'll bring to the role:

• Medical degree is preferred (MD) or a PhD degree with proven experience
• Has a minimum of 3-4 years of working experience within Medical Affairs
• Has experience in handling Oncology / Specialty Care portfolio
• Operations management and execution
• Project management skills
• Excellence stakeholder engagement

Why Novartis?

766 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2021, and while we're proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people's lives.

We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.

We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world's toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying!

Imagine what you could do here at Novartis!

Functional Area

Research & Development

Division

PHARMA

Business Unit

AMAC

Employment Type

Regular

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Shift Work

No

Early Talent

No