Medical Advisor Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd.

ROLE SUMMARY

A hybrid role (at least 50% in the field), Medical Advisor provides scientific expertise in highly strategic therapeutic area and builds/ maintains AZ scientific leadership. The role involves working extensively with external stakeholders to forge strong relations and foster scientific and strategic partnerships with major hospitals and institutions/ authorities in their assigned territory and non-traditional stakeholders (E.g. policy and decision makers, payer groups, government researchers and others) to help bridge the gaps, strengthen healthcare ecosystem, improve treatment outcomes that enable patient access to quality care.

Medical Advisor provides strategic inputs and is involved in the development of brand/ medical strategy and LCM and takes the lead in the design and implementation of medical activities aligned with Strategy. The role exerts therapeutic area leadership with cross-functional team with particular attention to decision on transforming care.The role also involves other internal responsibilities such as delivery of medical education and clinical support to medical professionals, training sales teams and acts as a buddy for new Medical Science Liaison (MSL) and mentor for existing MSLs by providing operational and compliance guidance based on Global/ Local standards.

The role may take responsibility as reviewer for activities and promotional materials and may lead Medical Information and Pharmacovigilance within a particular market.

What you ll do

Design and deliver Medical strategic plan

• Work closely with Medical Affairs Leadership and cross functional teams to provide inputs to medical and brand strategies.
• With strong understanding of the market and healthcare systems. Identify opportunities and initiate discussion of potential strategic, scalable, and sustainable clinical practice transformation initiatives that can impact on patient access to quality care.
• Develop and implement KEE engagement plan in collaboration with Medical Affairs Leadership.
• Develop and implement pre-launch medical plan/ activities for new products at least 2 years prior to planned launch in the country to address key clinical and scientific challenges.
• Act a strategic partner of brand team on life cycle management plan and actions.
• Leverage technology, available data or dashboards to drive data-driven decisions to support internal discussions and external engagements.
• Collect, share and provide inputs on field and external stakeholder insights and perspectives in medical and brand internal strategic discussions and communicate internally on actionable items as appropriate.
• Ensures own knowledge of best practices and new relevant developments are kept up to date and communicates with medical team, and cross functional team as appropriate.

Build, enhance, and maintain advocacy of Key External Experts (KEEs)

• Identify, prioritize, and expand KEEs to include non-traditional stakeholders (E.g. policy and decision makers, payer groups, government, researchers, and others) based on scientific/clinical expertise and practice change influence within a specific hospital and institution/ authorities, and engage in robust scientific discussions and medical advancements in a balanced, objective, and accurate way.
• Identify, and prioritize accounts based on patient care pathway and map the multidisciplinary team and maturity.
• Provide AZ with an understanding of the local medical community, clinical practice trends, HCP insight and real or perceived gaps in current scientific knowledge, patient journey, and disease management.
• Foster scientific partnerships with KEEs to help advance disease understanding and to achieve evidence-based changes in medical practice that are consistent with Medical Affairs strategy & objectives, such as:
  • Interact in the field with the medical community in the context of various medical projects such as clinical trials, Non-Interventional Studies, Investigator Sponsored Studies (ISSs), scientific exchange.
  • Identify potential speakers and train speakers as appropriate for local events.
  • Lead/ co-lead the planning and execution of advisory board meetings.
  • Present scientific data to HCPs in both group (Medically led meetings) and one on one setting.
  • Facilitate continuing medical education events for HCPs.
  • Support evidence generation in the region aligned with the medical strategy of disease area and brand.