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Gilead Sciences
Field Medical Manager – Cell Therapy Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
FULL TIME
September 12, 2024
For Current Gilead Employees and Contractors:
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At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.
At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.
Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.
We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.
Job Description
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Field Medical Manager – Cell Therapy Saudi Arabia
We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join us as a Field Medical Manager. Kite/Gilead Field Medical Manager are responsible for identifying, developing, and managing relationships with current and future hematology/oncology thought leaders (TLs) and other health care providers in academic and community practices. This position is field-based team member with no direct reports and reports to the Medical Head, Middle East region.
Everyone at Kite/Gilead is grounded by one common goal – which is curing cancer. We are at the forefront of immunotherapy and engineered T cell therapy. Our personalized approach is what sets us apart. Unlike traditional pharmaceutical manufacturing, our therapies are not created on an assembly line. With CAR T-cell therapy, we are reengineering a patient’s own immune cells to fight cancer — one patient at a time. We also are entering a pivotal time in our history with multiple planned launches and evolving competitive dynamics on a global scale. That means a fast moving, constantly changing environment and innovative culture, where we make discoveries every day – discoveries that include our own capabilities and our individual potential.
Key Responsibilities
- Field Medical Manager is representing the company to groups of experts, medical professional groups, scientific societies, patient representatives, regulatory groups and represents the company at national and international scientific meetings.
- Engage in peer to peer scientific exchange of complex clinical and scientific information
- Develop and foster strong scientific relationships with Thought Leaders (TLs), disease experts, and other health care providers (HCPs)
- Provide clinical/scientific presentations to internal teams and external stakeholders, as required.
- Compliantly provide internal teams with feedback and insights from interactions and discussions with HCPs
- Engage in activities including site selection and activation for KITE/Gilead clinical trials
- Provide support at professional meetings, including staffing exhibits, reporting on scientific sessions, and facilitating meetings with TLs and HCPs
- Adhere to corporate and health care compliance guidance in all activities, including those related to clinical trials, scientific interactions with internal and external groups, and responses to unsolicited requests for medical/scientific information
- Maintain clinical, scientific, and technical expertise in hematology/oncology and the company’s therapeutic areas of interest
- Represent the company and Medical Affairs during exchanges with the medical and scientific community
- Establish and maintain ongoing long-term collaborative relationships with HCPs (including physicians, nurses, and other allied health professionals) within assigned territory
- Respond to and document unsolicited requests for scientific information
- Provide clinical input and training to internal functions and external partners as requested
- Provide input and support for content development and delivery of clinical presentations at different medical educational activities, as requested
- Work closely with other field-based employees and headquarters-based staff to rapidly respond to questions from sites and enhance the care
Knowledge, Experience and Skills:
- The ideal candidate will have an advanced Medical degree (e.g. Medical Doctor, Pharm D, Ph D, M.Sc., etc.).
- Significant clinical practice and/or Medical affairs experience in Hematology/Oncology therapeutic area.
- CART/Cell therapy area experience is a plus.
- Industry experience is essential, ideally including recent experience of a successful launch within Hematology or Oncology.
- Have a working understanding of hospital and community practice specially hematology/oncology departments and health care systems in Saudi Arabia.
- Working knowledge of regulatory and compliance environment.
- Exceptional organizational and time management skills.
- Must have demonstrated organizational skills to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and independence required.
- Must demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills along with excellent judgment and ability to work in a team environment. Strong presentation skills are required.
- Ability to influence within cross-functional diversified and complex Metrix.
- Ability to travel to domestic to cover the assigned territories and international to attend the company organized events & conferences which will include occasional weekend travel required.
- Language: Bilingual: Fluent in English is essential. Arabic (is preferred).
Kite is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid, long-term durable response and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune system's ability to recognize and kill tumors. Kite is based in Santa Monica, CA.
For Current Gilead Employees and Contractors:
Please log onto your Internal Career Site to apply for this job.
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