Oncology Medical Affairs Lead at MSD

The job duties include the following:

Budget Planning and Resource Management.

• Hires, manages, coaches and develops a group of Medical Affairs Managers/MSLs assigned to his/her therapeutic areas to ensure the highest quality scientific exchange in alignment with the Medical Affairs plan.
• Collates Medical Affairs Manager/MSL field insights that will be shared internally as appropriate.
• Provides input into the therapeutic area Medical strategy led by the local Medical Affairs Managers.
• Ensures that there is adequate and compliant cross-functional collaboration between the Medical Affairs Managers/MSLs and internal stakeholders.
• Organizes regular team meetings for relevant trainings, sharing of best practices, reinforcing on compliance matters and discuss therapeutic area strategies.
• Develop his/her Medical affairs managers/MSLs’ functional and scientific skills.
• Establishes the annual performance objectives for his/her team.
• Conducts mid-year and year-end reviews of team performance.
• Develops and maintains up-to date scientific knowledge around relevant disease areas, products within those areas and research methodologies.
• Ensure optimal scientific leader management and support.
• Develop medical strategy (including the Medical Affairs plan, MAPs).
• Align medical strategy with business unit/franchise-needs with marketing.
• Responsible for the creation and timely execution of all Medical activities in his areas of responsibility including medical education, data generation activities etc...
• Responsible for close follow ups on all systems updates of the activities under his responsibility.
• Review and approves MSL plans.
• Collaborate with GCTO and Market access around new products.
• Ensures that all Medical Affairs Managers/MSLs perform their duties in alignment with company SOPs/Guidelines and local laws and regulations.
• Performs all medical advisor responsibilities for any indications under his/her responsibility.

Skills and Qualification Requirement:

• Medical degree (MD, PharmD,PhD). Preferably MD, Pharmacists or PhD with oncology experience.
• Understanding of the market landscape with deep insight on patient journey, access and reimbursement challenges, and with those challenges seeking opportunities.
• Management experience with direct reports.
• Business acumen, able to understand the business need and align to address patients’ need/unmet gap.