Medical Science Expert

Heads Talent Solutions has partnered with Merck - a reputable, innovative pharmaceutical company to support their expansion. You will have the opportunity to join a highly professional and successful team. We are looking for Medical Science Expert (Cardiometabolic and Endocrinology (CM&E)),  to join their team for 18 months.  

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. United As One for Patients, their purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. They develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Their teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining their Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

 

Strategic:

• Act as Local Medical Affairs TA expert in one or more TAs through in-field and office-based activities
• Support the Local TA leadership team in the development of TA, Launch and Brand strategies and lead the Medical Affairs Tactics
• Understand local medical strategy & objectives and apply these prioritized medical objectives (incl scientific information) to external scientific stakeholder engagement plans
• Gather and internally communicate relevant opinions, expert knowledge, insights, research & development concepts from external stakeholders to inform, advance and potentially influence the strategic direction of the respective TA

 

Key Accountabilities:

• Expert scientific exchange (bi-directional) on portfolio/products through F2F interactions and virtual ways of engaging
• Coordinate engagement with HCPs in close collaboration with peers from commercial teams, while respecting boundaries of both positions
• Handle medical/scientific questions from HCPs either remotely or via F2F interactions
• Perform scientific exchange in disease area management, latest scientific knowledge, patient pathway, mode of action, efficacy, safety profile and management, etc., answering medical inquiries (on-label/off-label) and collect relevant medical insights
• Answer unsolicited pipeline and off-label scientific/medical inquiries
• Lead and organize core medical activities as mentioned above
• Run selected in-field visits mainly to Key Thought Leaders (KTLs)
• Collect and capture data on engagement activities led by Medical (including insights) and actively follow HCPs input
• Propose and create projects based on medical insights which bring added value to health care system and patients, including disease awraeness
• Participate in medical education for healthcare professionals to enhance TA knowledge
• Stay updated on current literature, therapeutic landscape (incl competitive landscape) related to the relevant disease areas of focus
• Interact with local stakeholders in the medical community

 

Who you are:

• Curious, motivated, creative, analytical with excellent communication skills
• Holding university degree in a health sciences discipline, such as Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, or Veterinary Medicine.
• 2+ years relevant professional experience in medical affairs
• Fluent Serbian and English language is a must
• Computer knowledge and skills: Word, Excel, Internet, etc.
• Valid B driving license and ability to travel
• Experience in leading projects

 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.