Area Medical Head, Oncology - Emerging Markets Central (MENA)

Job Purpose

This is a regional medical leadership position for the Oncology Therapeutic Area and the incumbent will be accountable for providing the vision and leadership in the region for the Oncology TA.

You will be accountable for ensuring the regional medical organisation for Oncology TA has the right capacity and capabilities and for performance of the medical operational plans and evidence generation for countries in the region.

This role will represent the region on both the global franchise medical team and appropriate commercial leadership teams.

Key responsibilities:

• Accountable for Oncology related Medical Affairs Activities across the region
• Acts as the medical partner to the Regional Therapeutic Commercial Organisation and the voice of the region to the Global Medical Franchise/TA Head and R&D Therapeutic Head.
• Ensures the medical voice of the customer and market is deeply understood, synthesised into medical insights and clearly translated into appropriate actions to enable appropriate use of our medicines for patients in the region.
• Leads the development and execution of globally and commercially aligned medical plans for all medicines within the specific Therapeutic area/s. (S)he is accountable for medical plan development and strategic deployment of all medical resources to achieve joint objectives.
• Training responsibility for Local Medical Managers and MSL’s. Supporting recruitment and development.
• Oversee Phase IIIb/IV clinical development plans in the region by providing a consolidated regional perspective into long-term global clinical and value evidence strategies. Advocate for medical resources/data needed to support successful commercialization of products.
• Lead the scientific and external engagement strategy for the Oncology TA within the region.
• Enable a performance driven culture with clear metrics and business improvement embedded into the organization and be accountable for metrics to measure and communicate Therapeutic Medical Affairs activities to demonstrate the value and achievements.
• Be recognized as a trusted partner with commercial providing medical guidance and input and aligning and supporting promotional engagement strategy.
• Ensures Area Therapeutic Medical uptake into multi-channel media.
• Accountable for Medical input and scrutiny into Launch excellence processes, Launch improvement workshops and LOC deep dives.