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Mumbai - India

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Job Description

Job Title: Senior Team Lead Medical Affairs

Job Location: Mumbai Maharashtra India

Job Location Type: Onsite

Job Contract Type: Fulltime

Job Seniority Level: MidSenior level

Division

Department

Sub Department 1

Job Purpose

Develop strategize and plan business activities like portfolio selection brand planning and launch KOL management compliance and other crucial activities in 1 therapy and additional therapeutic areas . This is towards assimilation of scientific and medical knowhow in aligning activities to meet the business goal of the concerned therapeutic areas/business unit

Key Accountabilities (1/6)

Achieve scientific proficiency to drive the development of assigned therapy areas in accordance with the medical strategy

  • Keep abreast with the latest medical developments through publications websites and by attending national & international conferences
  • Understand on ground clinical practices by interacting with clinicians to develop practical knowledge and utilize it to provide closertomarket product solutions
  • Create scientific publications on key therapeutic areas for the Cipla Library and external publishing
  • Identify the need plan for and select faculty for organizing advisory boards RTDs CMEs symposia webcasts conferences etc. working closely with the Therapy Group Lead

Key Accountabilities (2/6)

Ideate and conceptualize with marketing team to develop promotional strategies to drive India and international business

  • Create and curate scientific content and promotional material (such as newsletters scientific booklets etc.) for online and offline usage by the marketing team during campaigns
  • Review medical literature created by reporting team members
  • Create medical material to support new product launches
  • Share latest product and therapy developments in the market with the marketing team via reports
  • Drive and conduct postmarketing surveys with doctors and other allied stakeholders for the allocated therapy areas
  • Develop medical content to support patient engagement for the product
  • Provide medical resources (such as product brochures) to equip the field force with accurate content to tackle doctor queries

Key Accountabilities (3/6)

Identify therapeutic gaps in the product portfolio and suggest new molecules/ formulations/ incremental innovations in order to contribute towards building a robust therapyproduct mix

  • Identify analyse and recommend new molecules devices and products for the domestic and global business by studying market trends
  • Provide a medical opinion and rationale to assist the portfolio API and inlicensing teams in selecting the appropriate portfolio mix
  • Analyse and recommend incremental enhancements in the management of product lifecycles in line with the changing treatment paradigms and new developments in therapy
  • Develop protocols for research projects in liaison with clinical trials department and get approval from group lead

Key Accountabilities (4/6)

Build team capability by conducting training sessions and guiding team members on how to develop their competence

  • Develop content and material for medical trainings of internal team and sales team
  • Develop induction training program with content for new team members
  • Track effectiveness of trainings regularly by means of feedback from the team as well as ROI achieved from them

Key Accountabilities (5/6)

Build external advisor relationship to help steer the therapy market

  • Identify new KOLs and initiate contact with them
  • Engage existing and new KOLs through various scientific activities
  • Leverage KOLs and therapy consultants for strategy development training and understanding therapy landscape as well as for potential hiring

Key Accountabilities (6/6)

Ensure ethical actions by adhering to regulations and laws

  • Ensure compliance and adhere to internal policies local and international regulations for scientific promotional materials activities and therapy/ product related queries from internal and external stakeholders
  • Prepare review and update package inserts of products as per the latest regulatory requirements
  • Prepare and review SOPs guidelines and checklists used by the R&D teams
  • Ensure timely reporting of drug safety and quality complaints received from the PV team to related authorities
  • Coordinate with the Legal team to review agreements CDAs CTA to be compliant

Major Challenges

  • Keeping pace with the frequently changing compliance requirements market dynamics/ therapy treatment trends and medical information overload
  • Managing multiple stakeholders and interdependencies on other cross functional teams
  • Scientific communicationbeing highly regulated for the pharmaceutical sector poses a challenge in terms of offlabel promotions and copyright limitation on images (graphs tables algorithms etc.) making it difficult to balance between ethics and marketing needs

Key Interactions (1/2)

  • Marketing Team for promotional inputs (daily)
  • Sales Team (India & international) for field queries CME meetings and refresher launches twice a month etc. (daily)
  • Clinical Trials for discussions on trial protocols status and other inputs (need based)
  • Pharmacovigilance & CQA for product quality and SAE complaints (need based)
  • Compliance & Ethics to ensure promotional activities in line with compliance guidelines (need based)
  • Legal for reviewing contracts copyrights and disclaimers (need based)
  • Corporate for press releases Cipla Med counsel activities (need based)
  • Finance for financial discrepancies (need based)
  • Art department for review and suggestions on conference collaterals and product pack designs (need based)
  • Learning and Development for Esproute related & training (need based)
  • Medical QAG forSOP review (monthly)
  • JP precision (Cipla Subsidiary. Division specific.)
  • Cipla Health (Day to day working for some colleagues)
  • R&D/ Portfolio for product development (need based)
  • Packaging/ Art Team for new product package design (need based)
  • Library (daily for research articles)
  • Corporate Communications & CiplaMed for therapy related inputs (23 times a week)

Key Interactions (2/2)

  • Conference Committees for publications lectures posters etc. for conferences (need based)
  • Chemists for competitor insights and patient feedbacks (bimonthly)
  • DCGI for product approval presentation (occasional)
  • KOLs for knowledge sharing (need based)
  • Medical and nonmedical institutes/ associations/ Paramedics to partner in research projects educational activities etc. (need based)
  • Marketing/ Medical agencies for promotional inputs (need based)

Dimensions (1/2)

  • Division – 12
  • Therapies – 34
  • Marketing team strength supported: 1015
  • Field force supported:
  • Team size 2
  • Scientific resource creation (medical abstracts product guides publications CiplaMed inputs etc.): 70100 documents/ deliverables per year
  • Deliverables for medico marketing initiatives (LBL new product launch campaigns webcasts conferences surveys etc.): 80100 documents/ deliverables per year
  • Training material creation (Esproute refreshers Nalanda product launch training PMT BM/SM etc.): 50 documents/ deliverables per year
  • Conference participations: 4 per year
  • Fieldwork: 16 field visits per year
  • KOL development: 13 new KOLs per year
  • Regulatory/ PV deliverables (SOP package inserts CDAs PV queries etc.): 2025 per year

Dimensions (2/2)

Key Decisions (1/2)

  • CiplaMed content approval (created by outsourced team)
  • Addressing field & doctor queries
  • Approval of scientific communication for doctors/ field queries
  • Training material for field

Key Decisions (2/2)

Approval required from Group Lead on the following

  • KOL engagement activities
  • Topics for scientific meetings
  • Organising online training module
  • Portfolio suggestions
  • Strategies for promotion of drugs
  • Deciding field work agenda and territory
  • HO initiated scientific events
  • Approval of promotional inputs
  • Scientific publishing/ clinical trial related activities
  • Attending conferences/ conducting field work
  • Drafting patient education material
  • New product activities
  • Package insert content promotional inputs

Education Qualification

MPharm Master’s in Biological Sciences / Pharmacy / PhD/ MBBS/ MD

Relevant Work Experience

Relevant experience:

  • Minimum 8 years’ experience for Master’s in Biological Sciences / Pharmacy
  • 25 years’ experience with PhD/ MBBS/ MD

Skills Required

  • Medical writing Medical therapy experience Medical scientific publications Medical training expertise KOL development knowledge of Compliance Regulatory Affairs & Clinical Trials


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