Director Medical Affairs

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The Director of Medical Affairs owns the medical-scientific strategy of the company’s pharmaceutical products and interacts closely with other groups within the company, including the local and regional Commercial Team, Regulatory Affairs, and other related departments. This role is responsible for providing scientific insights that can feed into the company BD / M&A portfolio strategy and lead identification / scientific evaluation. This role provides the opportunity to innovate in the development of an omnichannel engagement strategy for selected TAs. The Director of Medical Affairs will also engage and establish scientific partnerships with health care providers, academic institutions, patient care organizations, and government agencies locally. This role is responsible of ensuring robust processes and systems are established and followed in line with Thai FDA regulatory requirements for the review of promotional activities / materials.

Responsibilities

• Defines DKSH medical – scientific strategy based on HEC insights and trends identified from different sources and stakeholders.
• Provides strategic advice on the company pipeline for new business development and M&A products, throughout the different stages of the evaluation until closing.
• Define, plan, and execute medical strategic plan and core priorities, both at a country level and at strategic TA level. This includes key parts of the medical affairs plan such as: medical insights, data gaps and RWE studies proposed, medical activities during pre-launch and launch – growth phase, scientific support to promotional events.
• Establish high level scientific relationships and partnerships with Medical Societies, MEs and other key stakeholders (FDA) or other notified bodies.
• Develop strategy to generate scientific non promotional content to support the creation of a scientific community of HCPs via digital platform / channels to improve patient care in selected categories.
• Ensure respective team provides support with adequate scientific product knowledge training to the commercial teams.
• Provide input into development and implementation of successful reimbursement and market-access strategies.
• Support country medical affairs strategy, country insights and market conditions, and implementation of Medical Affairs activities within designated therapeutic area.
• Develop and execute tactical Medical Affairs strategies related to external partner management, medical education, evidence generation and scientific communications.
• Ensure DKSH compliance with FDA regulation by establishing and implementing a robust process to review promotional material and activities.

Requirements

• Proven track record and network in scientific exchange with key healthcare professionals, medical entities, and government committees.
• Deep understanding of regulatory requirements of products, including the scientific data and clinical trial support.
• High collaborative leadership and engage with other functions.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Creativity/Innovation.
• Change agility and entrepreneurial spirit.
• Commitment to career growth in company and resilience to pers.