Gulf Infectious Diseases & General Medicine Medical Advisor

Job Description

Role Summary

• The Medical Advisor holds primary responsibility within the country for the development and execution of the Medical Affairs strategic plans and activities and is expected around 70% of their time in external engagements.
• Key responsibilities include cross-functional strategy collaboration and execution, building trust with the medical/scientific community, facilitating peer-to-peer medical and scientific exchange, and providing asset issue resolution support.

Responsibilities and Primary Activities

• Develop and execute country medical affairs plan for bacterial infections, CMV & fungal infections.
• Translates Global Medical Goals and Strategies into tactics and solutions that support optimal scientific exchange aimed at helping improve patient outcomes and enhancing access.
• Builds trust with the external scientific community via peer-to-peer scientific exchange, research, and educational collaborations, as well as interactions with scientific societies, health organizations.
• Provides non-promotional, balanced, and reliable scientific information following company standards and local regulations.
• Leads country Group Input Meetings and consolidates actionable medical insights to inform company strategies.
• Construct & execute valuable scientific educational activities to position our Company as a scientific partner to the scientific community.
• Supports Clinical research activities for Global & local studies.
• Identification of appropriate local sites/investigators for clinical research programs.
• Conducts medical training to the Commercial, Access, Sales & Regulatory functions.
• Provides access support as needed (pre-license patient access).
• Ensures timely reporting of adverse events & assists local Pharmacovigilance team in assessment & completion of required data for optimal reporting.

Required Qualifications, Skills, & Experience

• MD, PhD in life science or PharmD.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry.
• Preferably experience in Medical Affairs department / Infectious Disease & General Medicine therapeutic areas.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, networking, and presentation skills
• Excellent Communication Skills & ability to engage with Scientific Leaders in a confident high level scientific rapport.
• Strong Scientific background & understanding of Medical Affairs.
• Arabic & English Fluency.
• Good utility of Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint & Excel)

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