The Medical Affairs Manager is a qualified physician who provides medical leadership and guidance for a designated brand within a specific therapy area. The role ensures scientific and medical accuracy of all brand-related materials, supports marketing direction with robust medical insight, and contributes to compliant, efficient approval processes for promotional and scientific content.
Key Responsibilities
- Medical leadership for brand: Act as the regional medical expert supporting the marketing team in developing brand materials within the assigned therapy area.
- Medical signatory: Serve as signatory for necessary materials, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, codes, and internal standards.
- Scientific accuracy and compliance: Be accountable for scientific and medical accuracy across outgoing materials, research papers, and reports; may hold sign-off authority.
- Process development: Lead or contribute as expert/project manager to develop, refine, and maintain processes for approving brand materials, ensuring efficiency and compliance.
- Policy implementation: Contribute to establishing and implementing policies, procedures, and objectives to safeguard medical and scientific accuracy of brand materials.
- Brand strategy support: Partner closely with senior practitioners to shape the local market medical strategy and inform marketing direction for the brand.
- Continuous learning: Maintain up-to-date knowledge of best practices, therapeutic area science, and relevant regulatory developments.
Essential Qualifications:
- Qualified Doctor (MD or equivalent).
- Knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmaceutical sales and marketing (e.g., promotional codes, regulatory requirements).
Desirable Qualifications:
- Advanced scientific degree (e.g., MSc, PhD).
- Pharmaceutical industry experience, particularly in marketing or Medical Affairs.
- Project management experience in cross-functional settings.
- Change management experience to optimize approval processes and ways of working.
- Experience creating information/marketing materials for basic and complex drugs.
