Lead, Therapeutic Area, Medical Affairs - Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumenia, Greece

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Job Advert Title Lead, Therapeutic Area, Medical Affairs - Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumenia, Greece Location Bulgaria Function/Business Area Medical & Clinical Employment Class Permanent

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Lead, Therapeutic Area, Medical Affairs - Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumenia, Greece 
About Astellas:
At Astellas we are making treatments that matter to people.
We are tackling the toughest health challenges putting the patient at the heart of every move we make.
Our global vision for Patient Centricity is to support the development of innovative health solutions through a deep understanding of the patient experience. At Astellas, Patient Centricity isn’t a buzzword - it’s a guiding principle for action. We believe all staff have a role to play in creating a patient-centric culture and integrating an awareness of the patient into our everyday working practices, regardless of our role, team or division.
We have developed ground-breaking, innovative medicines in immunology, oncology and urology. Our medicines are extending and saving the lives of cancer patients, making transplantation possible and improving the quality of life for those living with conditions where needs are often overlooked.
We take a patient-focused approach, that allows us to convert brilliant early science into treatments and solutions that directly improve and save patients’ lives.
From lab to clinic to patient, we focus on the most promising science, empower the best talent to pursue it, and develop life-changing solutions alongside the best partners.
The Opportunity:
As a Therapeutic Area Lead Medical Affairs, you will be responsible for the execution of the tactical field plans for engagement with the medical/scientific community in the designated therapeutic area at the affiliate level. This includes coordinating and executing medical/scientific activities to: understanding local external environment and data gaps; gathering data from the field that generates medical insights and being trusted advisor for scientific exchange to key stakeholders throughout the product life cycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand, align, and engage with external stakeholders to advance the understanding of and science behind compounds in development, the safe and effective use of Astellas products and disease states that they treat.
• Responsible for engaging in scientific exchange with Key External Experts in relevant TA
• Maintain medical and scientific knowledge and staying current to enable peer-to-peer scientific exchange.
• Demonstrates high level of proficiency in interpersonal skills to engage effectively with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Actively build compliant and value-added bridges between internal colleagues by working to remove barriers to collaboration (i.e. strategic and tactical plans collaboration, Account Management, Omnichannel)
• Training of field representatives, participation in international and national congresses, physician meetings, and educational events for doctors

Essential Knowledge & Experience:

• Solid professional experience in Pharmaceutical industry, Medical Affairs experience is preferred.
• Strong expertise in the therapeutic area including clinical/ hospital practice, clinical development, experience in designing, executing and reporting of clinical trials can be considered.
• Foundational understanding of the drug development process as well as commercialization and strong understanding and knowledge of industry laws and regulations.
• Knowledgeable on local health care environment and health care dynamics.
• Preferable a good understanding of the dynamics of a large corporate environment; comfortable with matrix reporting lines.
• Excellent presentation skills; fully fluent in written and verbal business English.

Preferred Experience:

• Doctoral degree (MD, PhD in health related science or PharmD).

Education:

• Master degree in Health related Science or equivalent.

Additional information:

• This is a permanent full-time position.
• Position is based in Bulgaria.
• This position is field-based in Bulgaria and 20-30% travel is expected in line with your role.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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