Medical Advisor - Mississauga, Canada - GSK

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Site Name:
Mississauga Milverton Drive


Posted Date:
Jun


JOB PURPOSE:

The Medical Advisor (MA) within Medical Affairs will be responsible for providing expert scientific capability and leadership while managing a broad range of Medical Affairs activities associated with assigned products and within the vaccines therapy area;

  • They will be accountable for leading external scientific/clinical exchange with the scientific and medical community and to bring the medical voice of the customer back into the organization (includes 1:1 engagements, advisory boards, medical education, congress presentations, publications and congress sponsorships).
  • They will work with the Medical team, the crossfunctional teams, and global teams providing scientific/clinical expertise, advice and technical leadership on GSK products in the Canadian market by developing and implementing a local, integrated medical strategy and customer engagement plans.
  • They will develop and implement local research strategies to address data gaps and advance the scientific/clinical understanding of GSK vaccines.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:


  • Provide expert scientific product and disease knowledge and trusted medical leadership to relevant cross functional internal business partners including commercial, regulatory, strategic development, clinical, VEO and GAMA.
  • Build and leverage high quality scientific knowledge and capability expertise across the enterprise.
  • Deliver external engagement excellence characterized by timely, responsible and responsive interactions with the external medical and scientific community to achieve a twoway trusted scientific partnership.
  • Accountable for regular review and analysis of data analytics and medical voice of customer to derive insights and develop action plans to deliver on the medical strategy.
  • Develop and implement a local Medical Strategic Plan for vaccines within the vaccines therapy area compliantly in line with GSK standard operating procedures and local codes of practice, guidelines and laws including:
  • Identifying areas of research interest and developing timely local study protocols which advance the scientific understanding of our medications
  • Identifying areas of medical education interest
  • Identifying advisory board/1:1 engagement needs, and leading their implementation and followup
  • Ensuring alignment with commercial strategic planning
  • Managing research budget and budget forecasting processes for assigned products and therapy areas
  • Interact with global teams to influence global clinical development plans in order to optimize patient access to innovative vaccines in Canada.
  • Provide scientific strategic input to the regulatory and reimbursement teams to allow GSK to demonstrate the value of GSK products to achieve optimal product labeling, reimbursement outcomes and patient access.
  • Provide product and disease information to authorities to support policy and decisionmaking.
  • Evaluate and manage investigatorsponsored studies to advance research on disease and its treatment, aligned to the areas of research interest.
  • Deliver study reports and local publications related to local research activities.
  • Support the Medical Head in the review of all medical grant and donation requests (including Independent Medical Education requests) and congress sponsorship requests to ensure alignment with therapy area strategies.
  • Leverage medical and scientific knowledge to ensure that all materials produced are medically and scientifically accurate and in compliance with local and GSK requirements
  • Assist in the development, organization, preparation and implementation of training for internal and external audiences on disease knowledge and management.
  • Support the Country Medical Director and the Named Safety Contact to comply with safety reporting requirements.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:


  • Postgraduate scientific degree (MSc, PhD, PharmD, MD)
  • Previous Medical Affairs experience within the pharmaceutical industry
  • Strong foundation/expertise in immunology, vaccines or infectious disease
  • Ability to leverage scientific knowledge
  • Must possess a good understanding of the Canadian healthcare environment
  • Strong influencing, negotiation skills with different types of internal and external stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to work in fastpaced environment
  • Team player with demonstrated courage, curiosity, agility and innovative thinking mindset
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills and problemsolving capabilities
  • Selfmotivated with the ability to work independently to develop credibility with colleagues, as well as interact effectively in a multidisciplinary matrix team to influence decisions
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential
  • Strong project management skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:


  • Experience within cardiology and/or endocrinology considered an asset
  • Demonstrated ability to work as a strategic partner with co
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