Site Name: Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Posted Date: Nov 26 2024


The Haemato-Oncology Medical Manager (MM) is primarily an office-based role responsible for managing the product lifecycle from the pre-authorization phase through local registration, launch, and post-launch stages. This involves the development and implementation of medical plans and scientific activities to facilitate patient access to GSK brands and establish scientific leadership. The MM will build a deep understanding of our compounds and develop relationships with key external experts (EEs). The role requires collaboration with key stakeholders to develop and drive local operating company (LOC) strategies, ensuring a thorough understanding of the scientific value of our products and their appropriate use to meet patients' needs through optimal use of available evidence, medical education, and access initiatives.
The MM is expected to spend at least 30% of his/her time externally to gather insights about GSK compounds, medical unmet needs, competitive landscape, etc, and execute plans. Key responsibilities include:

• Managing the brand lifecycle (pre-authorization, authorization, pre-launch, launch, post-launch).
• Developing and executing brand medical affairs plans.
• Identifying evidence gaps and working with the above-country team to address them.
• Supporting patient access to GSK brands.
• Providing product and disease area information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Attending local and international congresses and disseminating updates to stakeholders.
• Ensuring strategic alignment cross functionally.
• Ensuring full compliance with GSK Code, SOPs, and local laws and regulations.
• Providing medical training to EEs and speakers.
• Representing GSK at non-promotional meetings.
• Collecting insights and responding to medical information queries.
• Engaging in non-promotional discussions with EEs, payers, government, and formularies.
• Driving EE education journey using GSK tools (e.g., AKU, ADOp T, m VOC, m D2i).

• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and implement an effective Medical Affairs plan.
• Partner with commercial to develop country-specific strategic and medical plans to provide scientific support for GSK internal stakeholder.
• Provide medical insights to commercial colleagues based on patient needs and HCP feedback.
• Deliver scientific training and updates to stakeholders.
• Work cross-functionally to identify and develop TA EEs lists and brand value propositions.

General

• Uphold GSK’s values: Ambitious for patients, Accountable for impact, and Do the Right Thing in all interactions and exchanges of information between GSK and external communities.
• Develop and implement medical plans in conjunction with the GMM/CMD and internal stakeholders.

KEEs Interactions

• Lead and execute scientific activities to establish scientific leadership with Key EEs.
• Deliver medical education and respond to medical information queries.
• Support clinical development by nominating investigators and facilitating GSK clinical trials.
• Record and share EEs insights in a timely manner.

Medical Information:

• Respond to unsolicited requests for on- or off-label information or safety concerns from HCPs in a timely and accurate manner, documenting these responses in the Medical Information system.
• Ensure alignment with GSK ways of working regarding systems, documentation, and archiving of medical information queries.

Medical Governance:

• Act as a medical governance champion within the medical and commercial teams, ensuring awareness and implementation of relevant SOPs in all activities.
• Maintain a proactive approach to facilitate increased scientific share of voice and deliver effective engagements that address identified medical and educational needs.
• Stay updated and operate within relevant Codes of Conduct and SOPs.
• Work proactively with EEs to ensure understanding of GSK ways of working.

• Abide by the medical capability model skills level.
• Comfortable working across boundaries in a matrix organization across functions, geographies, and cultures.
• Individual contributor with medium to high job complexity and a high level of autonomy and accountability.
• Requires appropriate knowledge of the therapeutic area and experience in the Saudi market.

• Must have Medical Degree or Pharmaceutical degree.
• Must have at least 2-years’ experience as a Medical Manager.
• Must have at least 5-years’ experience within the haematological malignancies therapy areas.
• Must have a valid license from the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.
• High level of medical expert knowledge in Multiple Myeloma is strongly preferred.
• Strong communication skills, with high ability to effectively deliver messages & successfully establish relations with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in the preparation & delivery of effective scientific presentations with good public speaking skills in front of the medical audience (speaking at scientific educational events, congresses;)
• Ability to analyse, represent and discuss scientific data in the therapeutic area with external and internal partners.
• High level of discipline, ability to organize the activity and to reasonably use the working time within the established independence limits.
• Developed skills in business planning, business orientation and working under the dynamically changing conditions,
• Fluent in professional English language. Arabic language is an advantage.
• Postgraduate study in the relevant TA and or Business degree is an advantage.

Closing Date: 3 December 2024
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