Medical Advisor

6 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Takeda Pharmaceutical Full time

Title:_ Medical Advisor: Oncology
- Location:_ _**_Johannesburg, South Africa_** _office._
- Field: Medical_

**About Takeda**

At Takeda we strive to broaden access to treatment and enhance standards of care for people wherever they live. We focus on sustainably strengthening local health systems in low
- and middle-income countries at every stage of the patient journey, while developing an end-to-end access approach to make our highly innovative medicines available as soon as practically possible.

Takeda is unwavering in our commitment to patients. With the patient at the center of everything we do, we continue to innovate and drive changes that will better their lives and we are looking for like-minded professionals to join us.

**Who we are looking for**:
We are currently looking for a strong healthcare profile with the right attitude to join our Medical team in the role of Medical Advisor: Oncology.

**Objectives of this role**:

- Responsible for developing and managing the medical strategy for specific therapeutic areas (TA)/ brands and integration of this strategy into the brand plan\s.
- In-house scientific expert for the specific TA continually reviewing relevant and current scientific literature and providing up-to-date, fair-balanced product-related and clinical information relevant to the TA to internal and external stakeholders.
- Establish, develop and foster relationships with key external stakeholders through scientific discussions to facilitate and contribute to insight generation, in-depth understanding of the patient journey within specific therapeutic areas (TA) that eventually guides the creation of the medical plan which enables greater access and capability building across the treatment pathway.
- Assist the Head Medical Affairs in all matters related to medical governance and compliance within the medical function, by putting the patient’s needs and safety into focus.

**Required qualifications and experience**:

- Advanced scientific or clinical degree ex: MBChB; Master’s Degree in Life Sciences, PharmD, or Ph.D
- Preferably 4+ years oncology experience with established relationships in market.
- Preferably 2+ years of experience in driving and managing the medical strategy for various brands in the pharmaceutical industry
- Preferably 2+ years clinical / research experience

**Accountabilities**:

- Key Opinion Leader (KOL) engagement, partnerships with professional societies & Non-Government Organisations (NGOs)
- Education and training initiatives enabling early disease identification and optimal management to improve Standards of Care (SoC)
- Deliver medical / scientific messages relating to product data and disease to selected Key Opinion Leaders identified through stakeholder mapping and according to defined stakeholder engagement plans.
- Partnerships and scientific support to develop Centres of excellence (CoE)
- Global partnerships through preceptorships, & scientific engagements to enhance skills and capability across the healthcare system
- Clinical trial opportunities to drive early experience and advance patient access to medicine pre-registration
- Support and drive Real world evidence (RWE) data generation (internal and external data
- Contributing to the organization through medical expertise:

- Ensure excellence and timeliness in implementation of the therapeutic area specific medical plans
- Establish scientific engagement plan aligned with the TA medical Plan to guide in-field activities (e.g. scientific platform content, presentation of new data)
- Formulate strategic KOL/Stakeholder engagement plans to inform and assist in evaluating innovative ideas in development of the medical strategy
- Evaluate execution of plans on an ongoing basis and adapt where necessary to improve
- Respond to unsolicited requests from HCPs for medical information (including off-label information) related to marketed Takeda products and Takeda pipeline products
- Review and approve promotional materials as per Takeda policies
- Develop medical/scientific materials and slide decks as needed (e.g. Advisory board slides) and ensure the content is appropriately reviewed and approved as per Takeda policies
- Support scientific training of internal stakeholders and provide ongoing support and education as needed
- Building capabilities:

- Develop and maintain up-to-date knowledge of the TA by reviewing the literature, engaging in ongoing scientific exchange with KOLs and other external stakeholders, attend relevant scientific congresses
- Develop a TA specific scientific engagement plan aligned with the TA medical Plan to guide in-field activities (e.g. scientific platform content, presentation of new data)
- Deploy effective measures to complete tasks within time frame
- Collaborate and participate in cross functional teams to work towards achieving objectives set out in brand plans at a local and regional level where required.
- Managing and Engaging External Stakeholders:

- Have

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