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Job Description

ROLE OBJECTIVE

• Owns the scientific leadership and expert knowledge of the disease across and within relevant BU therapeutic area
• Scope of the Product portfolio Therapy Area: Hematology, Immunology, HAE
• Ensure operational cross-functional collaboration with other departments - Market Access, Marketing, Commercial) to develop an overall cross-brand therapeutic area commercial strategy and set medical priorities
• Ensure cross-brand medical strategy development and implementation of medical plans for each medical product based on effective cross-functional collaboration
• Ensure medical support of the launch of Veyvondi and Adzynma in the Czech Republic by leading a special medical launch project team
• Ensure correct interpretation and communication of scientific data of Takeda products within relevant TA
• Provide scientific support to the marketing/commercial activities within relevant TA
• Build and maintain partnerships between Takeda and its customers and key stakeholders and develop and maintain long-term relationships with external medical communities
• Ensure compliance of LOC to the code of conduct, corporate philosophy/values, relevant laws and regulations as well as SOPs and policies.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Build strategic partnerships

• Ensure all decisions and actions in the team are based on Takeda’s four priorities:
  Patient – Trust – Reputation – Business
• Support medical / scientific credibility through identification and development of sustained and trusted peer to peer relationships with external stakeholders
• Build and maintain partnerships with KOLs and stakeholders in current and future therapeutic areas of interest: ensure medical TA team is similarly engaged
• Understand the patient journey and provide insights to support medical and scientific strategy development

Medical Scientific Leadership

• Ensure medical support of the launch of Veyvondi and Adzynma in the Czech Republic by leading a special medical launch project team
• Lead the Therapeutic area medical activities, develop medial communication strategy and foster cross-functional collaboration between medical and commercial/market access teams
• Execute local medical activities:
  • Screen, review and analyse scientific literature; generate summaries & critical assessments
  • Present, as appropriate, the clinical evidence to internal and external stakeholders e.g. reimbursement bodies, in a non-promotional way
  • Ensure extensive, clear and structured briefing to external presenters/speakers at Takeda sponsored medical events are in place e.g. local Advisory Boards, doctors’ meetings.
  • Provide medical expertise to LOC Market Access, e.g. Pricing & Reimbursement Dossier creation
  • Provide medical expertise to LOC Regulatory Affairs/LOC Pharmacovigilance/LOC Quality Assurance
  • Provide scientific input into Marketing strategy and tactics, prepare appropriate training to commercial staff in accordance with Takeda ethical/compliance standards
  • Design and execute RWE data collection project as per product medical strategy
  • Budget responsibility for medical affairs activities related to TA/product
  • Provide accurate and non-promotional scientific information related to therapeutic disease area, licensed and unlicensed products and indications following unsolicited requests from HCPs, answer medical enquiries from HCPs by the retrieval, evaluation and presentation of high quality information, using in-house and external sources
  • Keep up to date with clinical knowledge, published data and trial work related to therapeutic area, including attendance at scientific meetings and conferences
  • Identify and develop relationships with regional Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), for the purpose of ethical and high-level exchange of scientific information
  • Give proactively clinical, scientific input and support to company activities. Provide input on how to use the clinical data and SPC statements for defining the medical aspect of the product strategy
• Provide input through the process of promotinal approval within relevant theraputical area
• Oversee medical OPEX budget within allocated therapeutical area

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Ensure effective open and agile cross-functional collaboration between medical and non-medical functions, work closely with key internal stakeholders (PVA, Commercial) as well as compliance

SKILLS and COMPETENCIES

Critical Skills and Competencies

• Excellent communication skills, open mindset, strong focus on effective cross-functional collaboration, skills to build and shape team and external relationships (with KOLs, policy makers, health economists, scientific societies, etc.)
• Compliance insights: Profound understanding of compliance and medical ethics, ability to navigate complex situations balancing SOPs, regulations, our values and business interests, adherence to the highest ethical standards and strong personal integrity
• Business acumen coupled with drive for results, holding self and others accountable forcommitments that align with our short- and long-term goals
• Project management skills – to deliver on complex tasks within timeframe and manage milestones, ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Coaching: Support and coach the project team members in maximizing their performance and achieving their professional goals
• Customer centricity: Ability to understand the customers' needs, leading complex collaborations successfully and creating genuine win-win solutions
• Knowledge of healthcare systems
• Clinical trials experience and good understanding of clinical trial data and study design
• Mature professional presence and credibility
• Passionate and self-confident
• IT literacy
• In-depth knowledge of the applicable GXP regulations, Good Clinical Practices, MSL Guidance Document and other role related SOPs and procedures

Experience and Education

• Medical degree or science-related graduate degree
• People management experience
• Min 5 years of experience working in pharma industry and a team environment
• Min 3 years of experience in Medical Affairs
• Fluent in local language plus good working proficiency in English

Locations

Prague, Czech Republic

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time