Medical Advisor - Biosurgery

Position Title: Medical Advisor, Biosurgery

Function : Biosurgery

Reports to : Sr Manager Medical Affairs, EA - Hospital products

Location : Gurgaon, India

Purpose :

- To be the active partner to India marketing and sales in driving business strategy and goals

- To ensure compliance for all medical affairs related activities with ethics and integrity

- Building & enhancing the scientific image of Company (internal & external)

Summary of Responsibility :

- Establish Company's Clinical leadership for Biosurgery therapy (Hemostats and sealants) in India

- Develop, nurture and engage KOLs in scientific activities that differentiate company as a scientifically driven healthcare organization.

- Contribute towards improving the awareness and surgical outcomes of the CompanyBioSurgery portfolio.

- Manage the clinical communication and training activities of the Business so as to create a superior clinical brand and quality perception of Company 's BioSurgery products and services.

- Strengthen the marketing strategies by required medical inputs

- Involve in the conduct of Outcome assessment studies for the purpose of country- publications and generation of Scientific Evidence

- Educate and train the physicians in Wet labs/CMEs/Symposia/P2P programs/Round Table Meets/Scientific Forums in Conferences

Company Overview :

- This is an International Inc. (NYSE) has over 80 years of market leadership, driven by a well recognized global brand. Company has 67 manufacturing facilities in 28 countries with operations in more than 110 countries and more than 50,000 employees. Approximately 70% of the sales come from products with leading market positions.

Summary of Job Function :

- Provide Medical Affairs related support to Marketing, Sales, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Operations, External Customers - our product users (or potential users)

Focus on clinical outreach programs :

- Design/provide medical content for the Marketing team and strategize dissemination of therapy-related communication to support brand management

- Provide slides and literature/medical information support to customers related to the therapy area

- Review of promotional material & material for submission to regulators

Upgrade clinical skills of the field force by conducting medical product and therapy training :

- Send regular medical update literature to the entire sales and clinical team and assess through regular testing at an monthly & quarterly interval

- Trainings for internal & external customers (new hires & on-going)

- Respond to Field/Doctors/Patient/Distributor queries and complaints with regard to product, therapy and clinical practices. Track all product quality related complaints and issues so as to coordinate complaint mitigation procedure in collaboration with other stakeholders and respond to the complainant appropriately.

- CMEs, Symposia, Product Introduction meetings. Make medical presentations to the doctors, nurses and key influencers through Continuing Medical Education programs, conferences or other occasions as required

- KOL / Medical Opinion Leaders development, nurture and engagements

- Interact with KOLs along with sales force and cater to any scientific queries on a daily basis

- To be the repository of clinical knowledge for the Company in the country; to liaise with the appropriate members of the global BioSurgery function so as to facilitate migration and assimilation of clinical data, findings and trends.

- Participate in national & international medical congresses as India representative.

Job Specifications :

Qualification :

- MD Pharmacology/Clin Pharmacology/Medicine/ MS (in any surgical ) branch will be preferred

Experience :

- 2-4 years of medical affairs experience desired in a reputed pharmaceutical/ healthcare company (however will not be a constraint)

- Prior experience of working with Surgeons(Neuro, cardiac, spine) in India will be desired

Traits :

- Should have the ability to effectively work and perform in cross functional teams.

- Should have experience presenting scientific data .Advanced skills and experience with scientific literature review and evaluation is preferable.

- Should have the ability to assimilate into a fast moving, dynamic organization and to perform whatever is necessary to help the organization achieve its goals and objectives. Should be able to develop relationships across functions or departments

Competencies :

- Strategic Perspective Effectively organizes data to identify trends, problems, and their causes. Compares, contrasts, and combines information to determine underlying issues and sees connections between independent problems or events.

- Systematically evaluates opportunities and targets those with the greatest potential for producing positive results with the minimum amount of risk

- Able to create new approaches to effectively address future and current changes in the industry

- Effectively articulates new and different ways of thinking and doing business

- Translates concepts and ideas into actionable plans

- Ability to resolve emerging issues using existing teams and/or an established network of expert consultants.

- Professional Confidence Assess and respond to clinical information, scientific/medical concepts and intellectual property, and to present a fair balanced highly clinical, scientific and professional profile of infectious disease therapies and products, and any other therapies and products of interest to Cubist

- Demonstrate capability for scientific, creative and strategic thinking, championing ideas for positions, and an ability to present and maintain fair-balance during scientific discussions

- Stays confident when challenged, stating the rationale for one s viewpoint clearly while listening to and respecting others right to different opinions

- Interpersonal Skills & Influence Adapts communication style to the audience in order to be heard

- Establishes and maintains collegial peer-to-peer relationships with a wide range of external thought leaders including physicians, pharmacists, and allied healthcare professionals.

- Demonstrates organizational awareness and experience working on cross functional teams

- Invests time in teamwork and developing collaborative relationships with other teams and individuals

- Invests time to actively listen and appreciate others viewpoints

- Involves those affected by decisions/actions in a manner that helps gain consensus

- Tailors influence strategy and approach using knowledge of the target audience