Medical Affairs Head

Title:_ _M_**_edical Affairs Head_**
- Location:_ _**_Johannesburg, South Africa_** _office._

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**:
The Medical Affairs Head in close collaboration with the General Manager, Health System Liaisons (HSLs), Patient Value Access (PVA) and Ethics and Compliance is responsible for:

- Providing strategic leadership of SA/SSA Medical personnel; manage and develop Medical team to achieve optimal performance
- Provide strategic guidance to the SA/SSA team and define coaching opportunities to successfully execute on priorities.
- Contribute to the achievement of business success by putting the patient’s needs and safety into primary focus
- Ensure compliance of LOC / MCO and medical team to the code of conduct, corporate philosophy, relevant laws and regulations as well as SOPs and policies
- Represent SA and SSA medical functions in a professional and competent manner towards internal and external stakeholders; ensure alignment, collaboration and proactive sharing of relevant information across all departments
- Lead overall company vision and direction for the portfolio at LOC level in SA and scientific office in SSA.
- Broadening access through innovative evidence generation; facilitating coordination and integration of different medical data and types of knowledge and articulating clinical and economic value as well as providing medical training, managing engagement of KOLs and supporting access programs.
- Actively assessing the healthcare landscape for both SA and SSA, meeting with key stakeholders/access influencers to understand the health system gaps, and working closely with the HSL and key stakeholder to identify effective solutions to address gaps

**Required qualifications and experience**:

- Extensive medical experience, Medical doctor
- Advanced degree in management, such as M.B.A., M.P.H. or M.H.A. is an advantage
- Min 5+years’ experience working in a team environment and in a supervisory position managing direct reports
- Min 6 years of pharmaceutical industry experience

**Accountabilities**:
**1 - Leadership**
- Provide direction and input into the overall strategic roadmap of the SA LOC and SSA strategy incl. building of required capabilities for the futures
- Build capabilities ensuring development of medical team through regular coaching, mentoring and team IDP’s.
- Ensure medical plans are aligned cross-functionally and aligned with the company / local strategy and is delivered on time and on budget
- Leverage strong leadership to develop and actively deploy talent retention strategies, binding highly qualified employees to the company and to offer stimuli for reaching ambitious objectives
- Support on-boarding, training and knowledge transfer within the medical department across countries (SA/SSA) providing an upskilling on areas of improvement as agreed within the leadership team
- Ambassador for Corporate Philosophy and Takeda-ism
- Lead local processes to hire new medical personnel in both SA/SSA

**2 - Medical/Scientific Affairs**
- Responsible for adherence to Global / Regional and local Compliance Standards for the Non-Commercial (Scientific) processes
- Guarantee scientific accuracy and adherence to ethical and industry standards regarding medical information, medical staff and sales force training, promotion of products marketed in accordance with the local Drug Law and Takeda’s standards / SOPs
- Oversee development of local tactical medical plans in line with the FH strategy and execution (including the production of local publications, planning and conduct of local Advisory Board meetings etc.)
- Liaise with other Department Heads to ensure common understanding of customer needs and alignment on applied strategy
- Establish and maintain -in alignment with Regional and Global Medical Affairs
- strong relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) as well as establish network including medical, clinical and academic community, authorities, pharma industry, payers and other relevant stakeholders
- Establish and develop Medical Managers/ MSL in the country including territory alignment, targeting and segmentation
- Develop HCP mapping and segmentation principles as basis of MSL territory alignment in coordination with commercial excellence where applicable; set standards for local/regional HCP mapping by MSLs
- Provide medical contributi