Medical Advisor 

Respiratory, Inflammation and Autoimmune diseases

14  months temporary position from March 2016  – Based in the Oslo office, Norway

The medical advisor provides medical and scientific support of External Customers and Internal Stakeholders on a Nordic and/or local level on AstraZeneca’s marketed products, and compounds in development.

The medical advisor engages in scientific exchange with medical and scientific experts, including  Key External Experts  and other important decision makers consistent with Overall Company  Strategy and Medical Affairs’ Objectives.

Accountabilities

Scientific Expertise:

• Maintains clinical/scientific expertise in disease state management, AZ brands, emerging therapies, and the competitive landscape.
• Acts as a subject matter expert/resource for internal and external customers.
• Responsible for internal training in assigned disease areas and across the portfolio

Scientific Exchange:

• Engages in collegial dialogue and deliver appropriate clinical/scientific information specific to AstraZeneca’s products.
• Responds to unsolicited customer inquiries and provide focused and balanced clinical / scientific information that supports the safe and appropriate use of AstraZeneca’s products.
• Provides scientific/clinical support and deliver data presentations
• Identifies and engages key customers using scientific expertise and business knowledge of AstraZeneca’s marketed products and compounds in development..

Strategic Relationship:

• Develops collegial relationships with medical and scientific experts, including Health Care Professionals, consistent with Medical Affairs’ objectives.
• Provides information to investigator/potential investigators on Externally Sponsored Research Program.

Customer Insight:

• Effectively identifies, gathers, analyzes, synthesizes and forwards to internal customers relevant new knowledge about the external scientific/medical/regulatory environment.
• Provides internal stakeholders with actionable items related to brand strategy and clinical development based on customers’ perspectives

Internal tasks:

• Works across Medical, Brand Teams, and Market Access to define brand strategies, cross functional operational plans and key deliverables including value stories and reimbursement dossiers
• Works closely with Medical Affairs colleagues to implement the Medical Plan

Other:

• Ensures tasks are of correct quality and in accordance with written procedures and current legal requirements  and internal standards

 

Minimum experience

• Master degree in medicine, pharmacy, dentistry or natural sciences
• Fluent in English and Norwegian
• Excellent understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, health care systems and payer structures in Norway
• Possesses business oriented thinking, and able to apply this without compromising the scientific elements of the work
• Proven ability to understand, assimilate and communicate scientific information
• Ability to build strong professional relationships internally and externally
• Structured and organized
• Being able to keep deadlines without compromising on quality
• High ethical standard and good knowledge in pharmaceutical marketing ethical framework

 

Preferred experience/requirements

• Thorough knowledge of, or experience from, the pharmaceutical industry, in particular from a Medical Affairs or MSL role
• Experience in the respiratory field
• Clinical Experience
• Advanced scientific degree
• Project management experience

 

Ytterligere kontakt vedrørende stillingen kan rettes til ekstern rekrutterer:

Borka Pharma Rekruttering;  André Borka, tel +47  90831871.
Motivasjonsbrev med CV sendes på norsk i PDF-form til andre@borka.no
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