Medical Engagement Manager Launches

• Job title: Medical Engagement Manager, Launches  

• Location: Warsaw, Poland 

• Reporting to: CSE Medical Launch Lead, Pharma 

• Travelling: Above 50% of travel expected  

Job purpose 

Implement the country medical affairs plan and other key medical affairs initiatives in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, in alignment with the Launches CSE medical strategy, and according to the highest ethical and compliance standards. 

Main Responsibilities: 

The Launches Medical engagement manager will be primarily responsible to develop and implement the local medical strategy for novel drugs in Autoimmune Diabetes. The role, as part of the Launch medical team, aims to establish credibility with local scientific community and shape the long-term strategy, considering launch and post-launch periods. The Medical engagement manager should have a deep understanding of therapy area, the medical unmet needs, clinical practice guidelines, patient journey and competitive landscape. You are recognized by key stakeholders as an expert in the field, with a significant network within the medical community. You have significant experience in medical affairs, including shaping therapy area strategies, medical insights gathering, building strategic partnerships, medical education, data dissemination, and omnichannel KOL engagement. 

The main responsibilities include: 

• Drive key pre-launch medical activities to ensure a successful local launch in collaboration with Commercial, Public Affairs and Market Access. 

• Identifying local evidence gaps (i.e., required for regulatory submissions and reimbursement, LCM, product value proposition etc.).  

• Driving the execution of local evidence generation plan. 

• Leading the development of patient pathway/journeys, patient support solutions and that improve patient experience and patient outcomes while meeting broader strategic objectives (i.e., data generation). 

• Support the design of screening and monitoring strategy levering partnerships with the healthcare ecosystem players (e.g., data registries to support stage 1/2 monitoring, diagnostic tests generalization and accessibility). 

• Collaborating cross-functionally (e.g., Commercial, Market Access, Public Affairs) to define a broad stakeholder engagement strategy by understanding how stakeholders impact each other in ecosystem (e.g., KOLs, DOLs, scientific societies, PAGs, policy makers, payers, think-tanks, COEs, etc.) and tailor engagement to their level of maturity to shape local treatment paradigm and establish scientific leadership. 

• Establish relationships and partner with key stakeholders in the Healthcare landscape (COEs, KOLs, Medical societies, peer to peer communities, patient associations, HTA bodies etc.) and drive scientific community consensus on treatment, infusion protocols, screening guidelines.  

•  Execute Glocal state of the art, multi-factorial stakeholder engagement leveraging Omnichannel (i.e., in field engagement, customer-centric educational programs, digital eng. and social media etc.) with a compelling narrative. 

• Stay up to date about the evolutions and developments in the aforementioned therapy area, the medical unmet needs, clinical practice guidelines, patient journey and competitive landscape; provide up-to-date disease and product knowledge to internal and external customers. 

• Management of medical inquiries in accordance to GXP requirements 

• Provide input to local medical budget. 

• Ensure the development of core behaviors with a constant concern to meet legal, regulatory, ethical and social responsibility standards required by local laws and organizational policies, procedures and culture. 

• Support to other countries as per need in the medical affairs team. 

3. About you  

Education/Experience/Certification: 

• Doctorate level education: MD or equivalent medical degree preferred, PhD or PharmD (preferred) or post-bachelor’s degree from accredited university (e.g. Masters, MBA or equivalent). 

• Three years industry experience (including medical affairs field or office) and/or clinical experience mandatory, ideally with diabetology experience. 

• Good understanding of the continuum of data generation including clinical development, Real World Evidence (RWE) and data gaps analysis. 

• Ability to act independently with a solutions-oriented and balanced approach applying TRT principles. 

• Excellent communication skills including driving challenging discussions. 

• Develop a good understanding of HCP communication preferences to adapt. communication style and optimise use of relevant channels to suit. 

• Implement true scientific engagement journeys by bridging channel disconnect to drive ongoing engagement and grow collaborative opportunities and meaningful scientific exchange. 

• Have experience in the use of Omnichannel tools and have an ability to adapt to new channels. 

• Effectively and compliantly share unmet needs of HCPs and their centres with cross-functional teams to inform patient centric strategy. 

• Fluent in local language. 

• English language professional proficiency.  

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