Job title: Regional Medical Advisor
Location: Multiple locations – Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad
Our Team:
Medical Affairs: Scientific backbone of the organization by facilitating scientific data generation, exchange, strategy, tactic, project planning and execution, etc.
Main responsibilities:

• The RMA (Regional Medical advisor) is a credible and valued representative of the company in field to interact with key stakeholders across their regions / products / TAs to establish and maintain scientific relationships with opinion leaders and other healthcare professionals via scientific approach that is aligned with the Brand Team objectives and therapeutic area Medical Plan
• Responsible for providing a variety of external and internal customers with medical and scientific information on the appropriate utilization of specific company products and with more general information about their therapeutic area and disease state
• Attends conferences and meetings on behalf of the company as scientific expert and serve as support to the field-based sales team within a defined region

Responsibilities
Enhancing scientific relationship building

• Identify, establish and maintain collaborative relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), investigators and institutions strategic to expand research, advisory, and educational partnership opportunities and the effective use of company products
• Provide stakeholders with credible, fair balanced, scientific information in assigned disease areas
• Conduct local scientific educational programs that aim to satisfy the specific scientific needs of individual KOLs and Institutions

Enhancing knowledge and scientific support to KOLs

• Sharescientific information through scientific exchange or speaker briefings in an evidence-based manner with the KOLs
• Support in preparing unbiased scientific materials in an evidence-based manner
• Provide effective clinical presentations to external audiences and tailors presentations to meet specific audience needs

Insight generation

• Obtain feedback and advice about company products or pipeline through various interactions and communicate relevant information back to internal stakeholders
• Collect, analyze, and communicate fair-balanced information concerning therapeutic area, treatment options, emerging standards of care, and competitive intelligence, reviews scientific publications and address medical information inquires

Expanding evidence

• Assist in protocol development, site selection, recruitment strategies, clinical operations collaboration, and communication with the Brand team and the Medical Advisor
• Support KOLs in research-related scientific exchange by providing literature search results relevant to the topic, provide guidance to means for study design, methodology, data collection, facilitate abstract / poster submissions, etc.

Internal collaboration
Provide clinical input to the regulatory affairs department in the preparation of regulatory submissions and product registrations Provide clinical support to manufacturing and quality for sustaining commercial products e.g., resolution of quality concerns, evaluation of customer complaints

Qualifications and experience:
MD/MBBS with experience or Post-graduate degree in Medicine (Pharmacology, Medicine etc.)
Knowledge, Skills & Competencies

• Taking accountability, being customer focused, science oriented, highly adapted to changing environment
• Being compliant, providing high quality result
• Presenting scientific material clearly and concisely
• Negotiation skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability and willingness to acquire knowledge in new areas, innovation and creativity
• Strong multi-tasking, time- and self-management skills, ability to plan and work independently,
• Perspective – broad-ranging personal and business interests, project management, ready to travel (up to 50 – 70% of the time)
• Clear understanding of local medical practice and clinical decision making regarding patient care.
• Understanding of healthcare systems affecting patient care
• Thorough knowledge of medicine (including pharmacotherapy), treatment guidelines, clinical research processes, customer strategies, regulations, and ethical guidelines applied to the pharmaceutical industry, solid understanding of GCP an industry code of practice
• Interpretation of key scientific data and ability to translate this information to meet educational and research needs
• In-depth knowledge of target TA may be an advantage

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.
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