Franchise Medical Lead

Job Description

• The Franchise Medical Lead will be accountable to facilitate or drive drug development for responsible TAs and develop the scientific part of the brand strategy in alignment with the brand team and the global strategy.
• Has the overall responsibility to implement the scientific activities in the responsible therapeutic area/s in compliance with applicable policies, procedures and other regulations. Manage Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs) and Medical Advisors (MAs). Provide strong scientific input on the global CDPs being the medical expert in the country.

Major responsibilities are as below,

• Drug Development/Clinical Research Support:
• Provide strong scientific input on the global CDPs.
• Provide medical expertise for the GMO teams:
• Lead and/or perform protocol, country and site feasibility.
• Provide protocol, Risk management plan & disease training as appropriate at Investigator’s Meetings or scientific forums or internally.
• Review and try to resolve local medical issues/questions that arise during the entire course of the trial – if necessary transferring issues to global teams.
• Support the regional/global teams on the local level.
• Develop, review and approve local studies’ documents.

Leadership & Management:

• Responsible for the management and coaching of a team of MSLs and MAs.
• Provide ongoing assessment of the MSLs and MAs’ competencies and skills, effectiveness and progress toward clear objectives.
• Responsible for the performance management, evaluation process, and organizational talent review process for the MSLs and MAs.
• Ensure implementation of all Novartis policies/ processes within the team.
• Responsible for developing the medical & scientific communication strategy to the MEs.
• Ensure implementation of all Novartis policies/ processes within the team.
• Assessment of the needs and implementation of annual development plans.

Resource Allocation:

• Recruit, hire and on-board a high performing team of MSLs and MAs within the responsible TAs.
• Optimize resources within assigned team priorities.
• Ensure continuous assessment & application of effective technology to enhance productivity of the team.

Budget

• Annual planning and tracking of Phase IV budget for the assigned TA/s.
• Strategic Alignment and planning:
• Develop the annual medical objectives/priorities for the assigned TAs.
• Responsible to develop the scientific part of the IPS and follow up on execution.
• Represent the medical department in cross-functional teams for strategic planning/alignment.
• Global/regional Medical Affairs Alignment:
• Promote good communication and teamwork between the local and regional/global medical affairs teams.

Internal/External scientific Support:

• Build strong network with MEs nationally, gaining insights on Novartis medical department position among all MNCs.
• Being the lead medical expert to IBTs.
• Provide support to execute the annual scientific communications & publication plans.
• Plan & conduct medical advisory boards.
• Enhance individual skills by attending appropriate international and local meetings/conferences of scientific interest within the relevant TAs.
• Responsible for reporting CI data.

NP4 approvals:

• Responsible to approve the NP4 requests within the assigned TAs and ensure compliance with the local