Abbott - Regional Manager - Medical & Scientific Affairs

Critical Skills Required :

- Possess excellent interpersonal, communication, coordination, and time-management skills.

- Ability to problem solve, work in teams, lead others toward defined objectives and present complex data clearly are also critical.

- Able to work independently and meticulously.

- Adaptable and having the ability to work under a wide variety of conditions.

- Able to prepare and make effective scientific presentations. These can include internal presentations for their own department, presentations for HCPs at different forums.

Key Responsibilities :

- Travel to respective places and be the owner of all scientific activities in the assigned regions.

- Active participation in scientific programs as speakers through lectures/presentations to propagate scientific communication to target audience.

- Ownership and responsibility for conducting all head office driven HCP E-engagement platforms as decided by the division head.

- Field work with regional sales teams (face to face calls or E-calls with HCPs as per feasibility and company policy).

- Facilitate the exchange of unbiased scientific information between the medical community and the company.

- Liaison with key opinion leaders on educational and clinically/scientifically oriented initiatives to establish long-term collaborative relationships and advocacy.

- Responsible for identifying, segmenting and developing KOLs in various therapeutic areas in terms of specialty, experience and academic interest.

- Responsible for medical information services (MIS).

- Responsibilities include supporting sales force in providing information to physicians related to latest developments in medical research, current recommendations on Standard of Care across therapeutic areas and resolving queries.

- Continuously update medical/ product knowledge of field force and training of recruit in the region in coordination with the training team.

- Communicating at an ongoing basis competitive/scientific intelligence from region to medical director/medical affairs team to ensure timely objection handling/ scientific support to sales marketing teams to handle competitor objections.

- All activities to be carried out in accordance with policies laid down by the company.

- To ensure all the medical and promotional activities are run in a compliant manner as per the internal guidelines, country regulations and local industry codes of promotional practices.

- Roles and responsibilities may change as per the requirement of the company as defined by division head.

Location : Kolkata.

Minimum Qualification & Experience : MD/MBBS with at least 3-5 years of experience in regional/medico marketing role with a pharmaceutical/nutrition company.