Medical Affairs Associate (Product Specialist)

About our client

• Our Client is the 2nd largest dermo-cosmetics laboratory in the world and the 2nd largest private French pharmaceutical group. In 2017, it generated 2,318 million euros in revenues, of which 62% came from its international business and 62% from its dermo-cosmetics division. which has always been headquartered in the South-West of France, owns subsidiaries and offices in 47 countries, enjoys distribution agreements in over 130 countries and counts more than 13,500 employees worldwide.
• Our client’s portfolio represents a continuum of activities spanning from prescription drugs and consumer health care products to dermo-cosmetics. In 2016, It also dedicated almost 143 million euros to R&D, shared between oncology, the central nervous system, consumer health care, dermatology, and dermo-cosmetics.

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Provides operational support to the Medical Affairs department
• Assists the MA department in the daily activities and assignments
• Participates in the preparations of internal training and updates meetings of marketing/sales team
• Ensures cross-functional partnership with concerned people at the local and Corporate levels (ie: QiRVi, legal …) and adequate medical support for the sales and marketing department

Main Duties:

• Provides adequate support to sponsor-investigators for the proper submission of IITs proposals
• Ensures proper follow-up with the sponsor-investigators for the ongoing IITs
• Maintains a proper archiving system for the MA department files
• Assists in the preparations of internal training, medical activities and medical support for the sales and marketing teams in the ME
• Assists in answering internal and external medical information requests received from various stakeholders of the ME (physicians, pharmacists, patients or consumers…)
• Assists in the review and tracking of promotional materials following PFMS ME SOP
• Assists in the preparation/update of medical slide kits (internal for training and external for roundtables, symposia…) and in the review of slide kits prepared by other departments
• Ensure appropriate coordination is in place with the following functional activities: QA, regulatory activity, marketing, legal, sales representatives, and any other local function which needs support from or which activity has an impact on scientific and medical information).
• Supports in the writing of minutes following medico-marketing activities (Advisory boards…)
• Supports competitive intelligence
• Whenever needed supports in the writing/update of SOPs relevant to the MA department
• Assists in the preparation of the department expenses

Context and Issues Of Position:

• The Associate Medical Affairs Manager is a position requiring continuous partnership and good coordination with MOM, local QiRVI department and local marketing department
• He/She should take part in the reinforcement of compliance and ensure a good and regularly updated knowledge of products
• He/She is responsible for abiding the Corporate guidelines and local SOPs
• He/She should act under functional responsibility of the Middle East Medical Operations Manager
• Position implies solid scientific/medical background
• Appropriate planning and organization to enable prioritization of tasks, responsibilities sense and autonomy, proactivity are required to hold the position properly
• Communication, self-motivation, flexibility, customers focus and details awareness are competencies required for this role