Core Job Responsibilities :
Commercial Teams Business Partner (Marketing, Sales, Trade)
- Medical Strategy Execution
- Implement medical plans aligned with product lifecycle goals (pre-launch, launch, post-marketing).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Clinical Development, Marketing, Market Access) to ensure medical insights inform business decisions.
- Scientific Exchange & KOL Engagement
- Build and maintain relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), HCPs, and academic institutions.
- Organize and lead advisory boards, scientific meetings, and medical education programs.
- Evidence Generation
- Support the design and execution of Phase IV/post-marketing studies, real-world evidence (RWE) projects, and investigator-initiated trials (IITs).
- Interpret clinical data and contribute to scientific publications, abstracts, and congress presentations.
- Medical Content Development
- Review and approve medical materials (e.g., slide decks, FAQs, training documents) to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Provide medical input for promotional materials and ensure adherence to regulatory guidelines (e.g., FDA, PHAP).
- Medical Support
- Act as a medical resource for internal teams (Sales, Marketing, MSLs) and external stakeholders.
- Address unsolicited medical inquiries from HCPs, ensuring timely and evidence-based responses.
- Continuing Medical Education
- Work with the Medical Affairs Director and CME personnel in planning for medical modules for use in CME activities like round table discussions, expert's forum.
- Work with the Medical Affairs Director, CME Personnel, Therapeutic/Brand Managers in deliberating with KOL and Advisory Board members the contents of medical module for specific products.
- Review contents of medical modules, invitations to CME activities, CME AVP to ensure compliance to internal and external regulations.
- Compliance & Risk Management
- Ensure all activities comply with industry regulations (e.g., FDA, PHAP), company SOPs, and ethics and compliance standards.
- Mitigate risks by maintaining up-to-date knowledge of therapeutic area guidelines and competitor landscape.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Clinical Operations on trial recruitment and data dissemination.
- Support market access by raising disease awareness and securing national and institutional formulary inclusions in relevant therapeutic areas.
- Patient Support Programs
- Provide scientific and ethical guidance to marketing managers in conceptualizing programs that will enhance benefits to pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to patients.
- Review contents of patient-centric materials disseminated by Abbott and specific programs that aim to assist patients, family members and community cope with diseases.
- Inventory and tracking of patient support programs, market research programs to ensure compliance to ethical guidance and monitor for any pharmacovigilance issues.
- New Product Introductions
- Assist the Senior Medical Manager in providing the business development unit, medical input in evaluating products for potential introduction into the local market.
- Provide medical support to the marketing team during the early planning/strategies for new products, line extensions, and/or new indications.
Medical Education & Training
Actively provide support to the training manager (Commercial Excellence)
- Provide disease knowledge training, training in understanding the patient journey from pre-diagnosis, diagnosis, and pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment options.
- Provide training on basic pharmacology, clinical uses of Abbott products.
- Create and update training materials on patients, disease, and products.
Minimum Education :
- A Doctor of Medicine graduate and with license to practice in the Philippines as given by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).
Minimum Experience/Training Required :
- Preferably at least three years of pharmaceutical industry experience and at least one year of postgraduate clinical experience.
- Knowledge and Experience :
Knowledge of disease diagnosis and rational treatment, both pharmacological and non-pharmacologicalClinical experience in managing patients : skills in doctor-patient communication, doctor-patient relationship,Knowledge and experience in the pharmaceutical industry :- Scientific and ethical standards governing pharmaceutical products
- Teaching skills on the patient's illness, the patient journey, and available treatment options
- Research : access relevant journal articles from indexed databases, interpretation of data and results of clinical studies
- Presentation skills synthesizing relevant medical concepts obtained from peer-reviewed references
- Competencies Required :
- Must have intense attention to details, able to work in a team environment, good organizational skills, and has a multi- tasking ability
- Strong communication skills
- Influencing and Leadership Skills
- Skills on synthesizing and integrating medical concepts from different sources/references and create a teaching module for specific disease/products
- Knowledge and skills in communicating medical concepts to marketing and sales team with or without medical background
- Core competencies essential in education which include : integrity, adaptability, collaboration, initiative, innovation
